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MAY 16, 2015

Tablets, laptops, educational gaming software, and smartphones allow schools to: Personalize the learning experience. Increase student engagement and collaboration through social media, simulations, and games. Efficiently assess student progress as often as once a week, for more carefully tailored educational experiences.

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JUNE 19, 2019

In my summer digital citizenship classes, the biggest question I get is how to control student cell phone usage. Instead, they would rather stick their heads into their smartphones and stay glued to social media or texting their friends. During that time he piloted 1:1 laptop use before the program went school-wide.

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EdTechTeam

JUNE 12, 2017

On the other hand, with Content Creation activities, children are involved creatively and critically to develop media content such as making digital art, creating an iMovie , composing their original music with Garage Band or making interactive charts with Numbers etc. Ask for help: Encourage use of age appropriate use of media.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Platforms provide the substructure for the “gig economy” and the “sharing economy”; they’re the economic engine of social media; they’re the architecture of the “attention economy” and the inspiration for claims about the “end of ownership.” But there are trade-offs.

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Graphite Blog

JANUARY 10, 2020

Media Literacy Courses and Curricula The providers below offer more comprehensive resources on media literacy, from courses (from just a few hours to weeks) to a curriculum linked to a scope and sequence and standards. Digital Citizenship Curriculum (by Common Sense Education): Features free K-12 lessons on news and media literacy.

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