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JUNE 21, 2022

Cyberbullying statistics provided by the government from 2019 indicate that sixteen percent of high school students report being cyberbullied. Moreover, it should begin at the elementary level, as many students 8-12 increasingly use social media sites ( Common Sense Census 2021 ).

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MAY 19, 2023

Students can practice persuasive writing, comprehension, and typing skills by completing reviews, reports, and reading logs online. Elementary and middle school children can read the books or have them read aloud to them. TumbleBookLibrary TumbleBookLibrary is a curated database of over 1100 elementary age ebooks.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

If you’ve ever seen a third grader struggle to type a web address into the computer or type a book report when they don’t know where the keys are, you know they should have started keyboarding earlier. Is elementary school too early—or too late? 2 What is the best age to introduce keyboarding? –Type to Learn, 1986.

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AUGUST 6, 2021

1st Class GradeBook – 1st Class GradeBook app provides educators with contemporary grading features, including class and student activity, grade reports, and more. Educators can also send reports to parents to keep them informed of their children’s progress. Gradebook and Grading Apps (for teachers).

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Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2024

The committee’s roughly 250-page report also made recommendations for governmental policies and future research on the topic. But the committee report says that keeping kids off social media isn’t going to solve any problems. It's part of the context of childhood and adolescence now.”

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MAY 20, 2022

Students can practice persuasive writing, comprehension, and typing skills by completing reviews, reports, and reading logs online. Elementary and middle school children can read the books or have them read aloud to them. TumbleBookLibrary is a curated database of over 1100 elementary age ebooks. Listen and Read.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

DECEMBER 5, 2015

In this post I would like to introduce 10 more resources that are available for facilitating proper digital citizenship in the classroom. 10 More Digital Citizenship Resources: The Web in the Classroom…Part 4 ( https://21centuryedtech.wordpress.com/ ). Understanding You Tube and Digital Citizenship.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Education Galaxy supports math, reading, language arts, and science at the elementary level (K-6). This combination of reward and reinforcement has been proven to be highly effective with elementary school learners. Kiddom now offers personalized curricula, visual reports and more. What makes Education Galaxy so Special?

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OCTOBER 21, 2021

Adopting successful models of technology integration such as those utilized at George Mason University’s Elementary Education Program is a start. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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Technology Digital Citizenship EdTech Study 306

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APRIL 27, 2020

If you’re looking for meaningful lessons to wrap up your school year, here are my top picks: Digital Passport. Cool book reports. Applied Digital Skills. Digital Citizenship review. Here’s a great question I got from Sandy: I am a computer teacher for Elementary as well as for preschoolers…ages 3 and 4.

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MAY 14, 2021

Students can practice persuasive writing, comprehension, and typing skills by completing reviews, reports, and reading logs online. Elementary and middle school children can read the books or have them read aloud to them. TumbleBookLibrary is a curated database of over 1100 elementary age ebooks. Listen and Read.

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Waterford

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The good news is that information is easier to come by than ever before—many students, even at an elementary age, have access to smartphones, the Internet, and a pervasive, never-ending flow of social media. This becomes especially important when we realize that elementary and teen-aged students are already swimming in the digital ecosystem.

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JULY 8, 2019

Programs are geared to the particular learning of Elementary and Middle School, and Middle and High School with games and lessons aligned to state and national standards like Common Core, TEKS and MAFS. Parents and teachers receive emailed progress reports so they can see how the student is progressing.

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Graphite Blog

AUGUST 7, 2020

Ruben Montoya, director of edtech systems at the Alhambra Elementary School District in Phoenix, Arizona, agrees. According to reporting by Education Week , the following strategies are best suited to each learning mode: Activities for the Classroom. " Emphasize digital citizenship.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 14, 2018

From student-led social media to students calling parents with score reports and student-led conferencing, these three ideas can help empower students in your classroom. You’re an elementary teacher right? I think this is an important shift that needs to be made, especially in elementary classrooms. Listen Now. Vicki: You teach.

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APRIL 6, 2020

The program is free, takes about eight hours (depending upon the student), and can include printed materials as well as digital. Age group: Upper elementary, middle and high school. Age group: Upper elementary. Age group: Upper elementary, middle and high school. Financial Football. Hands-on Banking.

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JANUARY 17, 2018

Notice that the report articulates the need for proper training for teachers in order for students to experience success. Felicia Zorn has taught both middle school in Georgia and elementary school in Tennessee. ost engagement, particularly among students at risk.” About the Author.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2021

Relationship over reproach: Fostering resilience by embracing a trauma-informed approach to elementary education. In addition, you’ll create practical tools such as rubrics for teacher observation, surveys for self-assessment reports, and data collection checklists and notes for interviews. Learn More.

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MARCH 29, 2022

Age group: Upper elementary, middle and high school. Rather than introduce one game from this collection during a class unit on personal economics, have students play throughout the school year, reinforcing prior learning, scaffolding knowledge, and self-reporting their progress. Living Wage Calculator.

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Hapara

AUGUST 18, 2023

A recent UNESCO report showed that across the nation, elementary and secondary students with disabilities experience higher rates of violence by teachers and are up to 1.5 By employing open dialogue with language that communicates a growth mindset, teachers model for learners and support them as they develop their digital citizenship.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

What ensued instead was a costly debacle, and, in its wake, a fledgling, problematic recovery, described in a new report released September 2. That’s also what they said last year after the same researchers raised similar issues in their initial report. Few teachers took advantage of the Pearson materials, according to the report.

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Hapara

MARCH 13, 2023

For instance, your elementary learners may have different web filtering needs than your high school learners. This is a great way for learners to practice responsible digital citizenship skills. With Hāpara Filter reports, you get visibility into all visited websites.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Educational Shows For Elementary. Those teaching elementary age children can find a lot of shows that teach everything from math to vocabulary, and even health topics. Not only can you watch in class, but you can assign your students to watch at home as an innovative approach to studying for pop quizzes and writing reports.

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DECEMBER 13, 2018

If you’re not convinced of the importance of SEL, here’s what students say: “Students and young adults believe SEL schools would create a more positive social and learning environment” — report by the Collaboration for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL).

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Graphite Blog

JANUARY 27, 2021

From elementary school through high school, most kids don't have the news and media literacy skills to fully understand what's happening. Remind students that social media can be rife with misinformation , and that even established media outlets may run with unverified reports. Encourage positive action. Pre-K-2nd grade.

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Graphite Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2019

A new report from Common Sense, The Common Sense Census: Media Use by Tweens and Teens, 2019 , helps us connect what we're observing in classrooms with larger trends. The report also compares how the data has changed since the first wave of the study in 2015. It's never too early to start teaching digital citizenship skills.

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JANUARY 24, 2019

Special Features include: ability to report position, velocity, and acceleration. 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. It can detect movement within a range of 15 cm to 4 m.

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APRIL 5, 2018

Age group: Upper elementary, middle and high school. Rather than introduce one game from this collection during a class unit on personal economics, have students play throughout the school year, reinforcing prior learning, scaffolding knowledge, and self-reporting their progress. Living Wage Calculator.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The Student Access to Digital Learning Resources Outside the Classroom Report , by the Department of Education, identified the three main causes of digital inequity as access and cost of high speed broadband and the lack of understanding by school families as to the importance of internet to support their students’ education.

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DECEMBER 13, 2018

If you’re not convinced of the importance of SEL, here’s what students say: “Students and young adults believe SEL schools would create a more positive social and learning environment” — report by the Collaboration for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL).

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Digital Citizenship Trends Video Data 150

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MARCH 7, 2018

Here, you can register for an SAT test, send score reports to colleges, go behind the curtain to see what concepts are tested on each section, and practice for the test with authentic questions and full-length practice tests. Parents, teachers, and counselors can monitor a student’s progress by viewing real-time reports.

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EdTechTeacher

MAY 3, 2015

There are a myriad of platforms to choose from: edublogs , Kidblog (especially good for elementary age children), Blogger , wordpress , and most LMS systems have a blogging platform built in. Kristen Wideen uses Kiblog for her elementary students to create digital portfolios; you can read more about her experience here.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Why insist they write a report, participate in a play, or create a poster instead? Students see so many slideshows in their classes, they no longer include the wow factor felt in elementary school. So why shouldn’t students create videos when constructing knowledge for formative or summative assessments?

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 25, 2019

Reported data on how many kids experience cyberbullying can vary depending on the age of kids surveyed and how cyberbullying is defined. According to the 2018 Common Sense report Social Media, Social Life , 13 percent of teens age 13-17 say they’ve been cyberbullied, including 9 percent who say it has happened to them more than twice.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Many of these critical thinking concepts are not difficult but need to become habits adopted early in life, which is why Oxman first tried them out in his children’s elementary school classrooms. Digital citizenship and media literacy is often taught as something extra and not necessarily embedded in curriculum, said Knutson.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2015

positive parent reports. The teacher dashboard provides thorough reports on which students are practicing what math skill and how well they are doing. The progress reports highlight individual strengths and needs. They are so excited to play and learn!” – Sue McCulloch, Grade 3/4 Northport Elementary School.

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JUNE 26, 2015

Most elementary age kids I know love math, but that changes when they matriculate to middle school. In fact, Forbes reported that 82% of public high schoolers in the well-to-do Montgomery County Maryland failed Algebra. Schools using Dimension U report high improvement in student math scores , often in excess of 33%.

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