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What Students Want Teachers—and Facebook—to Know About Digital Citizenship

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Jivani, the founder and CEO of the Love Your Natural Self Foundation, addressed a room of K-12 students and educators from across the country as part of a two-day event on digital citizenship—the idea of applying civility and civic engagement online. The company wants input from young people on how they like to learn, she said. “We

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Dr. Alec Couros on Spearfishing, Citizenship, and Lateral Reading

The CoolCatTeacher

Citizenship encompasses digital citizenship and the importance of lateral reading are three of the motivating topics tackled today with education thought-leader Dr. Alec Couros. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product.

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10 More Digital Citizenship Resources: The Web in the Classroom…Part 4

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

In this post I would like to introduce 10 more resources that are available for facilitating proper digital citizenship in the classroom. Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations. Vetting Web 2.0

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Let’s Catch up at #iste2016 : Here’s how

The CoolCatTeacher

Workshop: BYOA: BUILD YOUR OWN APP (WH021). Explore and create: Workshop]. I’ll be doing a “live from ISTE” set of interviews with some cool companies. They have an excellent free digital citizenship training program for teachers, Netsmartz. See Vicki’s ISTE 2016 Schedule.

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Digital Leadership with Students and Social Media featuring Jennifer Casa-Todd

The CoolCatTeacher

No, not as educators necessarily, but really helping our kids move from digital citizenship to digital leadership, with the author of the book Social LEADia. What is digital leadershp? VICKI: So Jennifer, how are we supposed to move from digital citizenship to digital leadership?

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PASCO Motion Sensor–A Must for Science Classes

Ask a Tech Teacher

You can also visit PASCO website’s Digital Library for hundreds of free labs and experiments that can be sorted by age group (elementary, MS, HS, AP, or University) or subject. Training and Workshops. This includes videos, free live online training, customized webinars, and onsite workshops.

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The Edtech Revolution: 2010 – 2017

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As Secretary Duncan’s chief of staff wrote at the time, the Common Core was intended to create a national market for book publishers, technology companies , testing corporations, and other vendors.”. Billion has been invested in US K-12 education technology companies since 2010. Indeed, $2.3

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