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

Waterford

Train: If you’re an administrator, schedule a faculty training session on how to use your school’s technology and answer any questions.[11]. Using the Internet for research will increase student enthusiasm about finding things out on their own.[7]. Many students are now the children of digital natives themselves.

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New Posted Resources 02/16/2012

The Web20Classroom

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World Password Day — It’s Today!

Ask a Tech Teacher

That’s more than anyone can keep track of and why it’s popular to link logins to social media accounts (Facebook and Twitter being the most common) or Google accounts. It’s a great activity for class when addressing internet safety. A study in the UK found that the average person has around 118 accounts.

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Bullying and Cyberbullying: The Things You Need to Know

The CoolCatTeacher

So we think that we’re unfamiliar with what’s involved, we’re not trained for this. We are trained. I think that very often — those of us who didn’t grow up with these technologies and media — think that this is a technology issue. We do know how to work with kids. We do understand child development.

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Are You R.E.A.D.Y. as a School to be Good Digital Citizens

techlearning

This leads to a cross roads of districts pushing digital learning into schools with teachers who may not be trained in the use of safe online instruction and hence the problem of a fear of the internet. Launching technology lessons or creating online learning is a huge responsibility. cross posted at techinnovation.live Dr.

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How every school can promote safety in a digital world

eSchool News

The next leap occurred with a transformational social networking experiment known as Facebook, instantly connecting people around the world and giving new meaning to the term “global village”. Then search engines arrived, completely revolutionizing the way students accessed and consumed information over the web.

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11 Essential EdTech Action Steps for Back to School

The CoolCatTeacher

A class Facebook page? A private Facebook group with your students? It is part of the five steps to Internet safety and is a basic safety mechanism, but it also just makes it easier to share and to communicate. Try Shelfit from EdTech Software. Set Up Social Media. Will you have a class Twitter account?

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