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Digital Citizenship: The Critical Call To Educate and Prepare 21st-Century Learners

EdNews Daily

As a society, it is our responsibility to ensure youth are fully aware as well as educated about digital citizenship. Education institutions, parents, community programs and youth organizations must make digital citizenship a priority to ensure our young leaders are on solid ground for a positive future.

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Faceoff: What Digital Device Should My School Buy?

Ask a Tech Teacher

Then came iPads with their focus on the visual, ease of use, and engagement of users. The most recent entrant into the education digital device market is Chromebooks–able to do ‘most’ of what ‘most’ students need–at a precipitously lower price. An iPad is not a laptop. Poll teachers for the reasons they use digital devices.

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How TV Can Help In The Classroom And On The Field

Ask a Tech Teacher

Maybe even let the kids pick different titles to teach them how to make comparisons. Which is better for schools: iPads or laptops? She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-8 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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14 Education Advancements in a Year

Ask a Tech Teacher

More Chromebooks than iPads. Chromebooks and iPads have become the two most popular digital devices in classrooms (with laptops, 2-in-1 devices like Surface Pro, and Macs next). Following is a list of fourteen such changes that have set 2018 up to be the most student-centered, transformative year ever.

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This Week's Live, Interactive, and Free Webinars in Elluminate

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

This presentation will help participants to dig about for an open future in their classrooms with portable tools such as iPads, higher order thinking by programming with Scratch and even engage senior VCE students with burning issues using glove puppets.” Kanawinka is the world’s largest GeoPark – humongous in comparison to all others.

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Silent Reading vs. Independent Reading: What’s the Difference? (plus digital tools to assess IR)

Reading By Example

In their excellent resource No More Independent Reading Without Support (Heinemann, 2013), Debbie Miller and Barbara Moss provide a helpful comparison: Silent Reading. This is an iPad application that allows the user to draw, type, and add images to a single document. The fact is, these two practices are very different. Notability.

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Here’s a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at what educators are clicking on like crazy

The CoolCatTeacher

iPad Creativity (515 clicks). 10 Creative Ways to Use Your iPad in the Classroom @Edudemic [link] #ipadchat Powered By the Tweet This Plugin Tweet This. This tweet teaches: iPads are popular. Another cool comparison graphic shared by Richard Byrne. The layout of the post is easy to read. Link: [link].