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Understanding concepts: What is digital citizenship?

Hapara

That’s why teaching digital citizenship has to be part of our roles as educators. So what is digital citizenship? Digital citizenship refers to being a responsible member of the global digital community. Digital citizens make healthy decisions and positive contributions to the community.

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Games Can Breed Uncivil Behavior. They Can Also Teach Digital Citizenship.

Edsurge

And how kids act in games can offer a glimpse into how they may act in other digital worlds—and the real one as well. As Games Evolve, Digital Citizenship Follows Higgins grew up with online games—back in the days of dial-up modems and laggy connections. Yet that’s not stopping efforts to create digital citizenship games.

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Top 5 Reasons Why Kids Should Learn Python

Ask a Tech Teacher

Highly Versatile, driving up its Cross-Industry Appeal: Python is being used in different types of environments such as mobile applications, desktop applications, web development, hardware programming, and many more. It also enjoys support from Facebook, Amazon Web Services and Google.

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6 Ways Teacher-authors Protect Their Online Privacy

Ask a Tech Teacher

If you currently use a messaging app (iPhone’s native iMessage app or Facebook’s Messenger), stop doing that. BTW, if you are overseas where you can’t access mobile data, if you have a VPN, that will encrypt your data and make surfing safe. If you read spy novels, they often use Signal for their communication.

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Using Facebook Stories in the Classroom

Gaggle Speaks

” This is certainly true of the Stories feature on social media—made popular by Snapchat—which has recently been implemented by Facebook. On Facebook, users now can post updates that are only visible to other users for 24 hours , at which point they’re gone forever (or so it seems).

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Remind Takes Student and Stakeholder Engagement to a New Level

A Principal's Reflections

Introducing two-way messaging on mobile for can be tricky, because teachers need messaging to be safe when communicating with minors and parents, and many don’t want to have to manage incoming text messages from their entire class! Students use texting as a social activity, but it can also be practice to build a positive digital footprint.

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What can parents do to keep their kids safe in the context of cyberbullying?

Neo LMS

Uses the computer or mobile devices late at night or when they are unsupervised. from the Kaspersky Internet Security website. Look out for these signs your child is a cyberbully : Is secretive about online activities. Quickly switches computer screens or closes the screen when you enter the room or walk by. Has a history of bullying.