Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Kids don’t expect that and often don’t know how to handle it. In fact, according to StopBullying.gov, 52 percent of young people report being cyberbullied and over half of them don’t report it to their parents. These clever digital natives take figuring out how to circumvent your protections as a challenge.

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Tech Helpful

MARCH 4, 2019

You have probably also seen a number of reports of things being a hoax that should be ignored. As always, the truth lies somewhere in between, and we wanted to help you sort things out along with giving you some practical advice on how to deal with these types of reports in the future. Case Study: What is the #MoMoChallenge?

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EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Although this generation can navigate the digital world with ease, it is unreasonable to assume young people fully understand how to leverage technology for best possible outcomes. Research shows that most youth use the Internet to view media outlets and to communicate with friends through social media applications.

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Graphite Blog

APRIL 18, 2019

Digital citizenship has emerged as a top priority in U.S. In fact, six out of 10 educators are teaching some kind of digital citizenship skill every month. To find out more about this growing effort, we've completed a first-of-its-kind research report, The Common Sense Census: Inside the 21st-Century Classroom.

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Gaggle Speaks

APRIL 17, 2017

Others have made efforts to foster digital citizenship and online safety as well. In particular, I appreciated the page with advice on sharing, friending and reporting, which is an especially great resource for students new to social media.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Check these statistics (from Pacer.org ): One out of every four students (22%) report being bullied during the school year. 64 percent of children who were bullied did not report it. The reasons for being bullied reported most often by students were looks (55%), body shape (37%), and race (16%). Right to digital access.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 31, 2020

We arm them with digital awareness; critical thinking skills; clear, accurate information; communication and citizenship skills; and important values, such as respect, responsibility, and resilience. Read more: The 9 elements of Digital Citizenship your students need to know. Changing curriculums. The problems.

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Waterford

MARCH 11, 2021

The “accent” of a digital immigrant (preferring a printed report rather than one online, for instance) strikes digital natives as odd.[4]. Others caution against taking the “digital native” concept too far. Be sure to introduce your students to Internet safety and elements of digital citizenship as a key focus.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Kids don’t expect that and often don’t know how to handle it. In fact, according to StopBullying.gov, 52 percent of young people report being cyberbullied and over half of them don’t report it to their parents. These clever digital natives take figuring out how to circumvent your protections as a challenge.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 21, 2019

When preteen kids see parents and older siblings thumbing away at social media accounts, they want to do it. There have been a few efforts to extend social communication tools to younger kids but mostly, kids don’t like them so end up on apps designed for teens or adults, like Snapchat or Instagram. How to get started.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Kids don’t expect that and often don’t know how to handle it. In fact, according to StopBullying.gov, 52 percent of young people report being cyberbullied and over half of them don’t report it to their parents. These clever digital natives take figuring out how to circumvent your protections as a challenge.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 4, 2022

“Eighty-seven percent of teachers and 77% of parents agree teaching that inspires creativity has a bigger payoff for students” This according to Gallup research (To read more of the report, click here ). They also need to understand how to be social, how to create connections, and how to develop their creativity.

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Graphite Blog

APRIL 18, 2019

Digital citizenship has emerged as a top priority in U.S. In fact, six out of 10 educators are teaching some kind of digital citizenship skill every month. To find out more about this growing effort, we've completed a first-of-its-kind research report, The Common Sense Census: Inside the 21st-Century Classroom.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 28, 2018

We must give pause to understand how citizens can become savvy purveyors of accurate information so that hoaxes like not friending Jayden K Smith and the countless missing children Facebook posts that travel unhindered for years after children have been found can cease. Now is the time for all of us to become savvy investigators.

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Tom Murray

MAY 10, 2017

For example, throughout 2016 and into the first part of 2017… I’ve watched those I was connected to on social media who align politically to the right blindly share anti-Hillary memes, articles, stories, etc. We must help those that we are connected to develop and refine their media literacy skills.

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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. Today, social media plays an outsized role in how people get their information. Sometimes easier.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 14, 2020

They grew up (or are growing up) with technology literally at their fingertips, so they intuitively know how to get around new ones. If we want our students to become great digital citizens — and we do — we need to teach them to be cyber-savvy as well. Here are a few tips on how to help students become so.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 25, 2019

Now, there are dozens of channels, hundreds of newspapers, thousands of bloggers, and tens of thousands of social media journalists — all trying to get your attention with the latest apocalyptic news flash. This means teaching media literacy skills that show them how to tell the difference.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 1, 2021

Providing my students with different choices for creating with the language will not only help them build their language skills and foster creativity, but also with the development of technology and digital citizenship skills, as they post online and share their work. I made some with music in the background and added narrations.

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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. Just for one example, we have student-led social media accounts in our classroom. Student-led social media accounts. Listen Now.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2019

There are endless distractions for kids these days—from games to music and social media. And as technology platforms have accelerated over the years, her job has increasingly involved keeping up with the ways young people use social media, and advising parents, teachers and even tech companies about what they need to know.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 26, 2018

Includes games on Macedonia, how to prepare for war, how to generate Faith, Persia, the inception of Australia, and more; fee required. Being good at reading is not just about getting through a book, but remembering what you read, reporting on it to others, and transferring this information to other parts of life. Hunger Games.

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Graphite Blog

AUGUST 30, 2016

As more and more students use technology during the school day, it's also time to think about how we can best make sure our students know how to use the internet in a safe, ethical, and responsible way. Interested in learning more about our advocacy efforts around digital citizenship and media literacy?

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Survey reveals that the majority of classroom educators shy away from social media integration. A new survey finds that just 13 percent of participating educators have used social media as part of their classroom learning. The University of Phoenix College of Education survey of 1,002 U.S.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 28, 2017

How to get started. When your Sway is finished, add it to any site that accepts embed codes, send it out as a link, or share it to a variety of social media outlets. Write and format reports. Prepare presentations, much as students would a report. Sway works in Windows, on iPads, iPhones, and desktops.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 13, 2016

You’ll enjoy her latest article on how to address cyberbullying with your students: Cyberbullying refers to a situation in which a teen, preteen or child is embarrassed, humiliated, harassed, threatened, tormented or otherwise targeted by another on interactive technology such as smartphones or social media.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 3, 2018

In fact, according to the anti-bullying website NoBullying.com, 52 percent of young people report being cyberbullied and over half of them don’t report it to their parents. Cyberbullying occurs on not just social media like Twitter, Facebook, and topical forums, but multiplayer games and school discussion boards.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Make this dictionary tool easily accessible from any digital device being used. Social media. Social media has the reputation as a gossip column–where people meet to chat. That’s social media. Today’s classwork means starting a report at school and finishing it at home.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 12, 2021

I won’t take time in this article (I’m at about 1000 words right now) for a how-to on each activity so if you don’t know how to complete one, check with your IT folks or Google it: Make sure your firewall and antivirus programs are working. If you get reports on Twitter usage or Google Adwords, schedule those weekly.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 22, 2015

Accomplishing this so it serves educational goals isn’t as much about knowing how to use the tools as constructing knowledge in an organic, scalable way. Digital Citizenship. Let’s face it: Students are on social media or will be soon. The lesson is an even, stead pacing. Internet use.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

Survey: Social Media Is Failing To Find Traction In The Classroom. Social media is a main form of communication and connection used by today’s students. Additionally, more teachers are citing a reluctance to incorporate social media into classroom learning than in 2013 (62 percent vs. 55 percent).

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Graphite Blog

JULY 31, 2021

This makes it all the more important to consider how our student’s digital lives can impact their social and emotional well-being. We've prepared this guide to help you navigate this world where digital citizenship and social and emotional learning are deeply intertwined.

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Read more: Top 10 BYOD concerns — and how to overcome them [Part 1]. Students can play games, watch stupid videos, browse inappropriate websites, spend time on social media, or catch up on the latest episodes of their favorite series. They report, It is surprising in some ways how normal it seems with the devices in the school.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Project templates include social memes, mini websites, narrated tutorials, presentations, reports, posters, how-to videos, and more. How to get started. In this way, your work will be automatically saved to your file and synced across all of your digital devices. Set up an Adobe account. OK, I can do that.

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The Daring Librarian

MARCH 27, 2011

According to a recent study & Mashable : "About 80% of children between the ages of 0 and 5 who use the Internet in the United States do so on at least a weekly basis, according to a report released Monday from education non-profit organizations Joan Ganz Cooney Center and Sesame Workshop."

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Graphite Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Our first and primary objective when teaching digital citizenship is helping students learn to appreciate, respect, and cultivate a positive digital footprint. This includes knowing how to effectively access and leverage digital tools to search, evaluate, communicate, and reflect on all aspects of the growing digital realm.

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Tech Helpful

MAY 23, 2019

ISTE Student Standard #2 Digital Citizen: Students recognize the rights, responsibilities, and opportunities of living, learning and working in an interconnected digital world, and they act and model in ways that are safe, legal and ethical. Warning: I will get on my soapbox here a bit.

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