Graphite Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

Educators' approach to internet safety in the classroom has changed as the technology and our use of it continues to evolve. In the past, digital citizenship lessons on internet safety focused more on dos and don'ts, like do create safe passwords and don't talk to strangers online.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 3, 2022

Encourage Creativity in the Classroom. How to Clean Up Google Classroom for the Summer. Here’s a preview of what’s coming up in June: Mindfulness in the Classroom. Internet Safety Month. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. Tech Teacher Appreciation Week.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 27, 2020

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Category: Internet.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 4, 2024

When I embarked on my teaching journey back in 2003, the landscape of the classroom was quite different from what we see today. It’s a transformation that’s been largely driven by the unprecedented pace of technological advancement. The concept of a 21st-century classroom has evolved significantly. And guess what?

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Waterford

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Depending on how we use it, technology can be either a priceless tool or endless distraction. Today’s children are digital natives, which means that they’ve grown up surrounded by technology from the time they were born. Give your child internet safety tips as part of discussing healthy screen time. Sweetser, P.,

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Edsurge

JULY 6, 2017

This separation between our true selves and our internet personas has led to some of my students believing it’s okay to be kind in the classroom, but a complete troll online. I jumped at the opportunity to help my students see the internet as a safe and fun place. As educators, our goal should be to eliminate this divide.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 24, 2019

No longer is it contained within four classroom walls or the physical site of a school building. This vast landscape of resources is offered digitally, freely (often), and equitably (hopefully), but to take that cerebral trek through the online world, children must know how to do it safely, securely, and responsibly. 1st Grade.

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Waterford

MARCH 11, 2021

The term was coined by author Marc Prensky to describe a person who grew up surrounded by technology and is familiar with the Internet from an early age on. How Digital Natives Process Information in the Classroom. Using Technology in the Classroom to Teach Digital Natives. What is a digital native?

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Hapara

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Which laws that protect school children involve technology? Technology solutions now support the task of enforcing laws that protect children and education communities. This is increasingly important as school 1:1 device use becomes more common in classrooms with younger learners.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Here’s a long list of websites to address Digital Citizenship topics you teach in your classroom: Avatars. Princess who knew how to UYN–video. Privacy on the internet. BrainPop Internet sources. Google course on searching internet. Internet searches. Websites—how to evaluate sources.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 13, 2016

You’ll enjoy her latest article on how to address cyberbullying with your students: Cyberbullying refers to a situation in which a teen, preteen or child is embarrassed, humiliated, harassed, threatened, tormented or otherwise targeted by another on interactive technology such as smartphones or social media.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 14, 2017

For each digital citizenship item, she gives classroom examples. Several important topics arise including how to talk to your students about their positive online presence and online professionalism. In today’s show, Alice and I talk about 5 things every digital citizen should know including: Three basic internet safety issues.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 6, 2021

How to create strong passwords. Here are three quick tips on how to create a strong password: Use 8-13 characters that are a combination of upper and lower case letters, numbers and symbols. How to manage passwords. — enter your password and this site tells you how secure it is. But they do have other suggestions.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 22, 2018

More than a million cases of child identity theft are reported every year and, as school districts continue to introduce students to new technology and advanced digital curriculum, Internet safety education is becoming an increasingly essential tool when preventing cybercrime. What are the risks.

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Lightspeed Systems

AUGUST 24, 2023

Complying with CIPA & COPPA While Still Protecting Student Data Privacy In using the internet in classrooms, the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) requires schools to monitor students’ online activity and educate them about appropriate behavior on the internet.

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wwwatanabe

JUNE 19, 2014

We communicate face-to-face, in writing, through various technologies, and multimedia. Therefore, every classroom must teach digital literacy as part of literacy, and not something separate. Original image by Andrea Hernandez Why have technology-rich writing? What about Internet safety?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 2, 2020

How to create strong passwords. Here are three quick tips on how to create a strong password: Use 8-13 characters that are a combination of upper and lower case letters, numbers and symbols. How to manage passwords. — enter your password and this site tells you how secure it is.

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EdTech4Beginners

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Here are 10 questions you may be asked along with some tips on how to answer them: 1) How do you use technology in the classroom? Explain how they had a positive impact on the students. 2) How would you deal with technology failure during a lesson? 4) How do you share tech ideas with your team?

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Securly

MAY 17, 2016

Well, teaching the school community about their web filtering system will optimize internet safety features and help students/teachers maximize web resources. By the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) , schools are required to 1) employ technology protection measures and 2) educate students on appropriate online behavior.

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edWeb.net

MAY 4, 2016

It’s enough to make you wonder: Are my students addicted to technology?” Here are four things you can do in your school or classroom to address these potential pitfalls with technology addiction: Talk to students about digital balance. Use classroom-management tools to help you limit digital distractions.

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The Web20Classroom

MAY 11, 2012

NETS Aligned Tools tags: web2.0 resources literacy A Teacher’s Field Guide to Parents | Ecology of Education tags: parents favorite Why Do We Connect? . NETS Aligned Tools tags: web2.0 resources literacy A Teacher’s Field Guide to Parents | Ecology of Education tags: parents favorite Why Do We Connect? . NETS Aligned Tools tags: web2.0

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2020

At that time, schools were not yet wired, and paper and pencil curriculum were de rigueur in the classroom. Decreased conduct problems and improved classroom behaviors. Get Into a Routine Don’t let them take advantage of the situation to turn in work that wouldn’t fly if you were in the actual classroom. Improved school climate.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 21, 2016

This free course is designed to help you teach the latest in internet safety and digital citizenship for your students. How do we change student behavior? How to educators deal with the drama that can accompany digital citizenship conversations? Today’s Sponsor: NetSmartz. It is online. Learn at your own pace.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2018

A critical realization, though, came when I used our district’s gradebook system to send messages home about projects and classroom activities. I have always maintained that involving parents in the educational process is essential to building a strong classroom culture.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 23, 2021

All are online, hands-on, with an authentic use of tools you’ll want for your classroom. The 21 st Century lesson blends technology with teaching to build a collaborative, differentiated, and shared learning environment. By the time educators finish this class, they will be ready to implement many new tools in their classroom.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 14, 2021

With so much use of technology, especially during the past school year, we need to make sure that we are helping students to build digital citizenship skills in our classrooms. We need to create opportunities for students to become more digitally aware and literate, and to be responsible when using technology.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

As an educator who has built my career during the 21st Century, I've found that my fellow education professionals often classify themselves in one of two categories: Specialize in curriculum (often in one specific subject area) Specialize in technology (either as part of IT or integration) This is a mistake. Education is not made up of tools.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

In 2023, a new popular kid in town, better known as AI, dominated headlines and prompted debates around how students could abuse–and should use–the generative tool for learning. With AI, we have just begun to see the possibilities this technology can provide for education. This begs the question: What’s next for education?

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EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 14, 2018

The article features teaching ideas and tips for how to keep children safe online. I recently wrote an article for The Times Educational Supplement (TES). Click this link to access the full article.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 28, 2015

Welcome to the third article in a series devoted to facilitating proper student internet interaction in the classroom. This classroom might be 1 to 1 or might be using technology to leverage student centered learning. Check out my PBL and Technology Integration Workshop. Digital Citizenship Classroom Posters.

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Graphite Blog

APRIL 18, 2019

schools and classrooms. To find out more about this growing effort, we've completed a first-of-its-kind research report, The Common Sense Census: Inside the 21st-Century Classroom. Despite a tendency to focus on safety issues, teachers are keenly aware of how student needs are changing due to our increasingly connected culture.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 12, 2021

Monica Watts is the director of K-12 engagement at the non-profit IMS Global Learning Consortium, providing a voice for K-12 institutions and bringing together technology providers to achieve digital equity and interoperability at scale. Monica is passionate about helping school districts integrate technology successfully.

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EdTechTeacher

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Our AHM technology coordinator, Stephanie Talalai ( @stalalai ) designed flyers of this page in Smore and put them up all over the school to encourage people to sign up. She recently implemented the app SeeSaw in her classroom to increase parent engagement. Tip #1: School Social Networking Accounts. Tip #3 Remind HQ. Harry Moore.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 12, 2017

We talk about targets, those who bully and how to respond when helping those embroiled in this situation. And it really isn’t as much about technology as it is about humanity. Educators can deal with these issues because it isn’t as much about technology as most educators think. We do know how to work with kids.

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Graphite Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

But complying with the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) -- a requirement of E-rate -- doesn't have to be. The E-rate program was put into place to ensure that education institutions have access to the technological resources necessary to keep students and teachers connected. Other USAC E-rate video resources.

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EdTechTeam

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Having worked the last few years as an Instructional Technology Facilitator in grades 3-12, I was unprepared for the challenge of crossing over citizenship practices in schools and classrooms to the digital online world. All too often a barrier to effective technology integration to support student learning is just that, integration.

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MSEDTechie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Digital Citizenship Week is all about teaching kids how to think critically, be safe, and make smart and responsible decisions when using digital media. Find out what Digital Citizenship is from Digizen and how you can help students become more responsible and proactive user of online technologies.

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