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Short screencast on how to set up YouTube for schools and filter only educational videos to your school.

Excellent blog post by Dr Alec Couros last year. Recently he has shared updates on Facebook about personal stolen identity via pictures online.

I like the idea of empathy and understanding as part of digital citizenship.

I agree, Ann. There are some awesome examples of people using social media to bring about a positive change in the world, and without exception they were motivated by empathy and an understanding of being a global digital citizen. We do the world a disservice focussing on the trolls etc.

Brilliant observations about how ongoing formative assessment reflects student's improved use of digital tools

This site has excellent posters for teaching students in primary and high school about using technology responsibly.

Downloadable posters from Common Sense Media.

This site contains a range of attractive and powerful tools for the creative use of Web 2.0.

This blog post succinctly explains what happens when we 'dump' resources on colleagues rather than curate them in a useful way.

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An excellent short video visually explaining 21st Century Skills - useful for primary school aged children

I am excited to be sharing global pedagogy in the world language classroom with educators from NJAIS (New Jersey Association of Independent Schools). How do we make world language teaching more relevant for our students in the US? How do we move, as Jason Cummings pointed out, towards oral fluency and interpersonal communication through global connections?

"This site provides k12 curriculum on digital citizenship and professional development for adults working with K12 students on digital citizenship."

Here 'Digital Citizenship' is defined as 'Using technology- Safely,Responsibly,Critically,Pro-actively to contribute to the digital society'. It provides lessons for each grade in one KLA. On the link for librarians. It has link to the 'California Model School Library Standards for Technology' which links info. literacy and digital literacy together to create a policy document for all years. This framework could be developed to demonstrate its application across the KLAs.

Useful teaching tool

If you're a content creator, you already know that high-quality images make posts more enticing to readers. The Internet is chock-full of digital images, but which ones are free to use? You'll find plenty of open source images if you know where to look. You can start by reading our post 15 Best Sites for Open Source Images. But finding them is only the first step - you also need to know how to properly attribute them, and to give due credit to the image's copyright holder. Let's take a look at some of the best places to find open source images, and how to attribute them appropriately.

Episodes 2, 4 and 9 feature discussions on digital citizenship during the pandemic.

Computers...not much more than digital textbooks. Interesting research on how teachers and students are using technology with a comparison of stats from 2013 to 2018.