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How Online Learning Can Improve Your Teaching

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Communicate With Social Media. With 90% of school-age individuals (kids over thirteen and adults) on some form of social media, it has become a natural way to communicate ideas, collaborate on projects, accept class work, and answer questions. More on Social Media. That’s easy to solve.

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3 Ways to Make Digital Citizenship Part of Your Everyday Teaching

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We often hear from educators who feel like they don't have the time to address digital citizenship in their classrooms. Or by the media specialist during library time? However, digital citizenship skills don't have to be presented as targeted lessons. Model digital citizenship on social media.

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9 Best-in-Class Digital Storytelling Tools

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When done editing, students can add music from an included royalty-free library. Besides saving their own masterpieces, students can view the works of other students in the walled garden of their private Storybird library. The site works on most digital devices and is Common Core-aligned. Sound confusing? VoiceThread.

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How to Blend Learning with Play for a Kid-friendly Summer

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The importance of reading to education success is well-documented. Collect these into a digital library that kids can access online, see what friends are reading over the summer, and find books that appeal to them. Teach Digital Citizenship with … Minecraft. Good choices include: Hopscotch (an app). Hunger Games.

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Essential Tech Tools for the History Class

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Social media has over a thousand posts on how awesome it is. The platform also has a library of over 45,000 topics teachers can access when looking for a content lesson or idea. In the history classroom, teachers can create reading assignments with annotation options or use templates from the Kami library.

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Teaching the #CharlestonSyllabus

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When nine worshipers at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, West Virginia, were murdered on June 17, 2015, social media news feeds quickly filled with opinionated posts about the impacts, meaning, and historical precedents surrounding the event. Blain who are leading these online discussions.

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We All Teach SEL: Curiosity Activities and Tools for Students

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Using our Digital Citizenship Curriculum? Genius lets students work together to annotate text online, from literature to historical documents. With a digital library of hundreds of books, this app focuses on learning about real life and nurturing imagination. LeVar Burton Kids Skybrary.

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