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Five digital citizenship activities everyone should know about

Hapara

What is digital citizenship in the classroom? Incorporating digital citizenship into the classroom can also reduce issues such as online distractions and cyberbullying, while also helping learners evaluate internet sources and properly credit authors and content creators. You can also assign the videos directly to Google Classroom.

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How to use digital textbooks in the K-12 classroom

Hapara

There are many advantages to using digital textbooks in the K-12 classroom for schools and districts. They come from sources such as the Michigan Open Book Project, Core Knowledge, CK-12, OpenStax and OER Commons. Learners will read about and discuss rules, decision-making and how to socialize in the classroom.

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Once Reviled in Education, Wikipedia Now Embraced By Many Professors

Edsurge

One of the biggest proponents of the power of Wikipedia in the classroom is Robert Cummings, associate professor of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Mississippi. I hear more often these days about teaching with free online materials instead of traditional textbooks (known as OER). Absolutely. It's a continuing spectrum.

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Creating your virtual library (quickly) using Slides and Bitmojis)

NeverEndingSearch

Currently, one very popular strategy is the creation of classroom scenes using Google Slides populated with their flexible Bitmojis. We need strategies for personalizing and enriching the remote learning experience. And it is clear that the library must be the center of that experience. by EZ EdTech! Valenza, J.K.

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6 Edtech New Year’s Resolutions

Tom Murray

This connectivity issue, coined “The Homework Gap” by the FCC’s Jessica Rosenworcel, means that many of the children sitting in our classrooms lose access – and therefore opportunity – the moment they leave our schools. Commit to Leveraging Social Media and Telling Your Great Story! But how does the community know?

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Online Learning Book Recommendations: And Why I Read so Few Books on the Topic

Edsurge

Tim Carson, Skilled Trades and OER Advocate First, allow me to tell you why I don’t typically read books about online learning. In fact, he welcomes us to share what we are learning by using the class hashtag across a variety of social media. I’ve ordered your book as well. We don’t have to be enrolled in his class to access it.

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Curation Situations: Let us count the ways

NeverEndingSearch

When my colleagues and I wrote our Social Media Curation Library Technology Report for ALA, we struggled with a definition. Social media curation efforts can help us fuel participatory culture as we build and connect communities. Curating OER. Clearly, curation is not only about OER. What’s curation?

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