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Tech Tip #169: What is Digital Literacy?

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Here are the sixteen transformative tools, activities, and/or knowledge bases digitally-literate students should be comfortable using: annotation tool. digital citizenship. digital class calendar. digital databases. digital devices–such as laptops, iPads , Chromebooks , or desktops, for daily use.

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6 Ways Teacher-authors Protect Their Online Privacy

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If we humans aren’t giving away our personal information (as we do on FB, Tiktok, Instagram, Twitter and every other social media account), we’re having it stolen without our permission or knowledge and sold to those who mean us harm. we have a access to our income streams on our digital devices. Which I was, a few times.

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3 Apps That Energize Learning

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I polled my teacher friends and trolled Twitter to find out the most popular ways educators use IFTTT. Here’s what I found: IF I post a photo on Instagram THEN share it on Twitter. IF my iPad (laptop, phone) battery is low THEN remind me to recharge it. Educational applications. IF it’s going to snow tomorrow THEN text me.

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Need a New Job? Here’s What You Do

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School digital devices used to be primarily PCs, but now there are Chromebooks, iPads, Macs, Surface Pros, laptops, and more. I have four Twitter accounts and share the one appropriate to the circumstance. Include your facility with 1:1 programs, carts, and other approaches to using technology in classes. Devices you can use.

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My Favorite 5 Tech Tools for Teacher-Authors

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I know lots of people who write the first draft of their documents with paper-and-pencil but almost always, the next version is completed on some sort of digital device. That might be a Mac, PC, iPad, Chromebook, laptop, or in some cases a dedicated word processor like the Retro Freewrite or Alphasmart. No–really, I like it!”

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3 Creative Tech Tools to Teach Writing

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Twitter Novel. There’s a lot Twitter brings to the education world: It’s non-intimidating. In this activity, students write a novel in Twitter. into 140 characters, such as David Mitchell’s Twitter novel delivered in 288+ tweets. Rather: Laptop in hand, he wrote. Instead, try something new. Middle and High School.

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EdmodoCon 2013 Guest Post #7: L. Neumann from SWEDEN!

Baker's B.Y.O.D.

But then I was just slightly curious about the Digital Citizenship talk, and got stuck in the interesting discussion. But now my contacts was really almost falling out of my eyes and I decisively closed my laptop, after saying good night. And I had finally seen the point of Twitter! Bijal Damani was amazingly inspiring!

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