Literacy with ICT

"Given how much you rely on your phone, you'll want to make sure it works well for you. Here are some smartphone habits to boost your productivity."

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"Coding and robotics can help students develop critical skills for success after high school--here are some resources for the classroom"

"The consequences of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic are enormous regarding the drastic changes in how educational institutions work. Since March 2020, most primary schools, high schools and colleges have transferred their classes to an online setting. Although this has certain advantages, like keeping up with social distancing guidelines, the biggest challenge is to keep the learners entertained. This is where immersive learning becomes beneficial, especially on smartphones since they are cost-efficient and commonly used to track online classrooms."

"How to spot fake news? These two words have trended in the last decade as a way of describing news and information that is false. It is not as simple as that, though. Other words like misinformation, disinformation, propaganda, satire, hoaxes, and conspiracy theories also describe something very similar and have been around for much longer. They do not, however, convey that snappy dismissive air conjured by the words "fake news." "

"Today we share the second report in our series of findings from the Gender Balance in Computing research programme, which we've been running as part of the National Centre for Computing Education and with various partners. In this £2.4 million research programme, funded by the Department for Education in England, we aim to identify ways to encourage more female learners to engage with Computing and choose to study it further."

"Community and connection are more vital than ever as children reconnect after nearly two years of disrupted learning and isolation. Last year-the toughest one in terms of behavior management that I can remember-I used three tools to create a positive community in my second-grade classroom. They helped me build students' self-esteem, teach empathy and problem-solving, and inspire leadership among my students. This was my most successful year for behavior management, despite having a handful of children who needed a lot of support."

"At the beginning of a school year, settling in with a whole new group of students, it can be difficult to navigate heated moments. How do you deal with all-too-predictable disruptions in a way that feels proportional and controlled when there are a thousand daily decisions to make and dozens of personalities in play? When you're overwhelmed, can you really afford to be empathetic?"

"Have you ever played a name game with your new classes? Typically everyone stands in a circle and the first person says their name, the next person says their own name and the name of the first person, and the third person says their own name, the name of the second person, and the name of the first person, and so on. Can you imagine how the last person in the group feels? There's so much pressure to remember everyone's names. Over the years, name games have been a go-to tool for me when learning the names of students. I noticed that my students and I learned names faster through name games. Now, however, I approach these games differently."

"Maybe you've heard the saying that whoever is talking is the person learning. Or, the teacher should do less talking in the classroom than the students. Both of those sayings have truth to them. With that in mind, let's see if there are benefits to student-generated podcasts."

"Five ideas to help students understand the problem, learn basic skills, share their experiences and have a say in how media literacy is taught."

"Digital resources abound online. They can be more up to date and just as accurate as a textbook. Where do we find them, and how do we curate them?"

"Classroom videos to use in class TODAY -- crowdsourced from educators like you. Search with the box below. Browse by grade level ("Who's Watching?") or content area."

"Projects, lesson plans, storytelling resources and tutorials just for you. StoryMaker is a powerful learning platform developed by PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs to build the next generation of media creators."

"Photos and illustrations from The New York Times to inspire your spooky stories, poems and memoirs."

"UPDATES HAVE CONTINUED to be released thick and fast in October, with patches now available from the likes of Apple for iOS, Google Chrome, Android, and, of course, Microsoft in its monthly Patch Tuesday. That's in addition to updates to fix issues in Zoom, Cisco, VMWare, and SAP products. Here are the details about all the important patches issued in October."

"And whether you're dead set on quitting Twitter and never coming back, or you're waiting to see how the near-future shakes out, here's how to grab an archive of your tweets, photos, direct messages, and other activity-and then delete your account once you're ready. That way you can remember the way things were, no matter what lies ahead."

"In this tutorial, we will share the easiest ways to get photos off your iPhone and transfer them to another iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android smartphone, or Windows PC"

"You can finally view your battery percentage in the battery icon on your iPhone, but only certain phones are compatible with this feature."

"Cloud computing is the delivery of computing services-including servers, storage, databases, networking, software, analytics, and intelligence-over the Internet ("the cloud") to offer faster innovation, flexible resources, and economies of scale."