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Creating a safe environment for online learning

Neo LMS

Teachers in all fields saw their lives turned upside down with the arrival of COVID-19, with most having to resort to remote learning. As an educator, it is important to do what you can to keep students safe at school and educate parents about precautions at home. Here are some common threats and tips. Limit cyberbullying.

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A Getting Started Guide to Digital Citizenship Education

The CoolCatTeacher

This free course is designed to help you teach the latest in internet safety and digital citizenship for your students. It is online. Learn at your own pace. Just enroll here: It is online. Learn at your own pace. How to educators deal with the drama that can accompany digital citizenship conversations?

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Sextortion: Your Students Are at Risk, Teachers Can Help

The CoolCatTeacher

Get Netsmartz, the free program to help educate teachers, parents and students. Sextortion is a shocking new way online predators are targeting kids. Educate yourself. Netsmartz is a free online training program from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. It is online. Learn at your own pace.

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Technology and Digital Media in the Classroom: A Guide for Educators

Waterford

While it can be hard to keep up with every trend in educational technology, the mindset you have when it comes to classroom tech matters just as much as which ones you use. By learning to view it as a means of enhancing your lessons and resources, you can provide your students with tools and opportunities they may not otherwise access.

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Things Every Teacher Should Know About Digital Citizenship

The CoolCatTeacher

Educate yourself to prevent the nightmare From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Show Notes – Things Every Teacher Should Know about Digital Citizenship: A simple explanation to parents about Internet safety. It is online. Learn at your own pace. It is free.

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Understanding, Teaching, and Reaching Digital Native Students—and Digital Native Caregivers

Waterford

The great news is that digital natives want to learn. It’s just up to educators to help them succeed in finding answers while staying safe in a digital environment. The term was coined by author Marc Prensky to describe a person who grew up surrounded by technology and is familiar with the Internet from an early age on.

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Mindfulness and Screen Time

Digital Promise

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The nagging sense that we’re not quite steering this ship plagues educators, too, who may find themselves dropping everything to manage the fallout of interpersonal crises that play out in the digital realm, erupting with little or no warning.