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Digital citizenship, digital literacy, and education

eSchool News

Editor’s note: This article on digital citizenship in schools originally appeared on CoSN’s blog and is reposted here with permission. According to Virtual Library , digital citizenship is “engaging in appropriate and responsible behavior when using technology.”

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Digital citizenship, digital literacy, and education

eSchool News

Editor’s note: This article on digital citizenship in schools originally appeared on CoSN’s blog and is reposted here with permission. According to Virtual Library , digital citizenship is “engaging in appropriate and responsible behavior when using technology.”

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To Teach Digital Citizenship Effectively, Educators Say It’s Time to Unblock Social Media

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This year, on September 27, 2017, the American Association of School Librarians made a point to encourage their members to raise awareness about “overly restrictive blocking of legitimate, educational websites and academically useful social networking tools in schools and school libraries.”. They are all into it. Darren Ellwein.

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Creative Fabrica–the Perfect Solution for Teachers, Creators, and Anyone In a Hurry

Ask a Tech Teacher

I–like many teachers–do a lot of prep for my teaching, often requiring digital desktop publishing platforms. It provides boundless resources to spice up your classes, create lesson plans, quickly build newsletters, add content so social media platforms, and all the other tasks we teachers perform on a daily basis.

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ISTE and Capstone Collaborate on Children’s Books Championing Digital Citizenship

eSchool News

Our collaboration gives educators an accessible way to start a positive dialogue around digital citizenship, creative use of technology, and our global connection—all knowledge kids need to help prepare them to confidently navigate the digital landscape,” said Beth Brezenoff, Capstone VP of Publishing.

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How students can safely search the internet

Hapara

Many of us remember heading to the library to gather books and printed articles for our school projects. Libraries, of course, still hold a wealth of information, but now learners can go beyond the library walls. Across subjects, educators can add online research into class activities, homework, essays and projects.

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

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In some hands, social media tools are blights on society, tools for bullies and misinformation campaigns. Facebook and The International Society for Technology in Education, or ISTE, organized the event as part of their work with DigCitCommit, a campaign to promote digital citizenship.