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Essential Guide to Digital Citizenship for CIPA and E-Rate

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What does E-rate have to do with digital citizenship? Through E-rate, your school or library can receive support to purchase communication services and other technological products. What services are eligible to receive discounts under E-rate? What are the educational requirements for compliance? What if I get audited?

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How Tech Teachers Can Benefit From Historical Research Tools

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However, one thing that can make it easier for students to learn is for teachers to include instructions on basic academic skills like vocabulary, keyboarding, digital citizenship, and research. The better a student’s digital citizenship, the more safely they can navigate the Internet websites, staying away from scammy links.

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6 tips to help start an elementary esports program in your school

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Not surprisingly, many of this year’s Top 10 focused on innovative ways to engage students, digital resources, and online and hybrid learning strategies related to post-pandemic teaching. The benefits of esports are well documented. This year’s 2nd most-read story focuses on creating an elementary esports program.

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What is Actively Learn and Why Should I Try it?

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Actively Learn is a freemium online education platform that allows students to read a book (or some other document), make comments, answer questions posed by the teacher, and even collaborate with others. in the library as a research tool . These are filtered by topic, grade, length, reading level, keyword, or standards (i.e.,

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The newly reimagined Empire State Information Fluency Continuum

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Barbara Stripling, Professor Emerita, Syracuse University, and former ALA President, describes the history and goals of the project that builds on an earlier version developed by school librarians in 2009 under the auspices of the Office of Library Services and its former Director, Dr. Stripling.

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Can You Show Netflix in Class? Copyright for Teachers Made Simple

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If you have a document camera or interactive board, put them to use! My go-to resource for all things digital citizenship is Common Sense Media and their K-12 Digital Citizenship curriculum. In their Copyright section, you can gain access to visuals and lesson plans for secondary students.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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Computing platforms have different abstraction levels, including a computer architecture, an OS, or runtime libraries. Think the private school startup Bridge International Academies that operates in Africa, for example, which Peg Tyre documented so devastatingly in The New York Times Magazine this summer.).