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How to Teach Cyber Safety in Kindergarten

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K–12 Schools Use Video to Teach Digital Citizenship. The Stop.Think.Connect Toolkit , for example, includes helpful resources for K–8 students, including social media tips, online gaming tips, kids’ presentations and more. The organization has developed a library of cyber curricula resources for K–12.

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How to Use the Vaping and Juuling Trend to Teach Media Literacy

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Some point to the clever, social media-friendly ad campaigns and marketing efforts of Juul in the early 2010s. Recommended for: Grades: 6-12 Subjects: ELA, social studies, digital citizenship, advertising/marketing, business. Demonstrate to students how to browse the Smithsonian's library of ads on the left.

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Screen Time in School: Finding the Right Balance for Your Classroom

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If you do end up going the digital route, be sure to check out this Common Sense article: The Best Digital Library Apps for Students. As a teacher, you can also consider doing some of your own action research in your classroom: Compare your class's comprehension with print vs. digital texts.

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Looking for Trusted Advisers? Look No Further

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Social Media: @alicekeeler, YouTube. Alice Keeler is a Google Certified Teacher, New Media Consortium K12 Ambassador, Microsoft Innovative Educator and LEC Admin & Online and Blended certified. Social Media: @cultofpedagogy, iTunes podcast. Social Media: @ericcurts, YouTube. FreeTech4Teachers.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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Computing platforms have different abstraction levels, including a computer architecture, an OS, or runtime libraries. Think the private school startup Bridge International Academies that operates in Africa, for example, which Peg Tyre documented so devastatingly in The New York Times Magazine this summer.).

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13 Ways to Use Canva in Your Classroom

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You can create professional presentations, posters, multi-page documents, marketing materials, social media graphics, and more (see the list below for education) using Canva’s more than 1 million photos, icons, and layouts, each with colors and fonts coordinated into attractive schema easily accessed by both beginners and reluctant designers.

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Social and Cultural Literacy Resources for Classrooms

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Digital Citizenship and Social Emotional Learning: Navigating Life's Digital Dilemmas (by Common Sense Education): This guide offers educators discussion activities that show how digital dilemmas like bullying or digital drama can be better navigated with character strengths and social and emotional skills.