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Vicki Davis

Digiteen - Group | Diigo - 1 views

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    Digiteen Diigo group that we use with our students on the digital citizenship project. The 9 aspects of digital citizenship correspond with the 9 aspects from Mike Ribble and Gerald Bailey's Digital Citizenship in schools.
Anne Bubnic

How Social Gaming Is Improving Education - 2 views

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    Enter social video games as a solution - immersive environments that simulate real-world problems. Today, technologically eager schools are replacing textbook learning with social video games, and improving learning outcomes in the process. Here's how they're doing it.
Anne Bubnic

My School, Meet MySpace: Social Networking at School | Edutopia - 3 views

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    Months before the newly hired teachers at Philadelphia's Science Leadership Academy (SLA) started their jobs, they began the consuming work of creating the high school of their dreams -- without meeting face to face. They articulated a vision, planned curriculum, designed assessment rubrics, debated discipline policies, and even hammered out daily schedules using the sort of networking tools -- messaging, file swapping, idea sharing, and blogging
Anne Bubnic

How to Use Social-Networking Technology for Learning | Edutopia - 4 views

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    Schools should reflect the world we live in today. And we live in a social world. We need to teach students how to be effective collaborators in that world, how to interact with people around them, how to be engaged, informed twenty-first-century citizens.
Anne Bubnic

Three Important Lessons Banning Cell Phones Teaches Kids - 1 views

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    Teachable moment: In addition to the three important lessons, the teacher guided students through a process of creating and posting their own version of appropriate rules for cell phones in school. Over five dozen student comments are posted. Interesting stuff.
Anne Bubnic

Evaluating Information Sources - 2 views

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    Learning module from New Zealand educators teaches students how to evaluate resources.
Anne Bubnic

How Twitter in the Classroom is Boosting Student Engagement - 1 views

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    This post describes the two main benefits professors find when using Twitter in lecture.
Anne Bubnic

Safe Travels for You and Your Data - 4 views

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    It's hard enough to make sure the data you send and receive is safe when you're at home or at work. But traveling brings a whole new set of hazards: from publicly accessible computers to unprotected wireless networks to crowded and pickpocket-plagued airports.
Anne Bubnic

FRONTLINE: digital nation: digital natives | PBS - 6 views

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    PBS/Digital Nation provides five focal areas for their latest documentary and multiple sub-topics among them: LIVING FASTER, RELATIONSHIPS, WAGING WAR, VIRTUAL WORLDS and LEARNING. All of the videos are captured at this site for use as future resources. There are also lessons for teachers and a discussion round table where you can leave feedback.
Anne Bubnic

FRONTLINE: Digital Nation - Online Resources for Parents and Educators - 6 views

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    Digital Nation is a new, open source PBS project that explores what it means to be human in an entirely new world -- a digital world. It consists of this Web site as well as a major FRONTLINE documentary to be broadcast on Feb. 2, 2010.
Anne Bubnic

11 Things You Should Never Do Online - 4 views

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    Did you know you could lose insurance benefits from putting photos online? Or that a Tweet can put you in jail? Or that the FBI might be friending you on Facebook? Or that even brand-new service Chatroulette isn't truly anonymous?
Anne Bubnic

Backchanneling in Middle School Social Studies - 0 views

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    One 8th grade class's experience with backchanneling while watching a video. Great ideas here!
Anne Bubnic

Newport Mesa Unified School District: Cyber Smart Week - 1 views

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    A district-wide coordinated effort to provide student instruction during Cyber Smart Week. Includes PowerPoint instructions and extension activities for GR K-3, 4-8 and 9-12.
Anne Bubnic

Hit Back At Bullies? Not At This School : NPR - 3 views

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    See chart for descriptions of roles students play in bullying situations. To see the Olweus Bullying Prevention program used to address cyberbullies, check out the work of this group of school psychologists.
Anne Bubnic

Public Library's Teen Tech Week begins today - 2 views

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    Teen Tech Week is a national initiative of the Young Adult Library Services Association aimed at teens, their parents, educators and other concerned adults. The purpose of the initiative is to ensure that teens are competent and ethical users of technologies, especially those that are offered through libraries. Some great ideas here for activities with cell phones!
Anne Bubnic

ReadWriteThink: Propaganda Techniques in Literature and Online Political Ads - 1 views

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    Propaganda Techniques in Literature and Online Political Ads.
    In this lesson, GR 9-12 students draw conclusions from an analysis of propaganda techniques used in a piece of literature such as the novel Brave New World, the play The Crucible, or the movie Dr. Strangelove and political advertisements posted on the Internet. Students also make connections to their own world by looking for examples of propaganda in other media, such as print ads and commercials.
Anne Bubnic

21st Century Educators Don't Say "Hand It In." They say, "Publish It!" - 2 views

  • The authentic publication of student work should be a part of EVERY SINGLE UNIT OF STUDY. If an educator can’t figure out a way to help students publish anything in a unit of study they need to either 1) Rethink the unit or 2) Rethink the assessment.
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    If the first decade of the 21st century was about data driven instruction and assessment, can we make the next decade about realizing potential of the student behind the data and publishing to authentic audience as part of student's school lives? Some great examples are given here of "Hand it In Teaching" vs. "Publish It Teaching"
Anne Bubnic

Breakthrough Learning in a Digital Age - Literacy 2.0 - 8 views

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    Innovative examples of how technology can help kids learn to read, learn to write, learn to think and better determine what's worth reading and what's not, what's worth writing and what's not.
Anne Bubnic

EBook: Educating for Global Citizenship - 10 views

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    From the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario (ETFO). This downloadable 246-page resource includes teacher-authors' individual or group units, modified by curriculum inquiry and peer review, and provides many links to resources.
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