Digital Citizenship in Schools

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

"Diigo is a powerful information capturing, storing, recalling and sharing tool. Here are just a few of the possibilities with Diigo: Save important websites and access them on any computer. Categorize websites by titles, notes, keyword tags, lists and groups. Search through bookmarks to quickly find desired information. Save a screenshot of a website and see how it has changed over time. Annotate websites with highlighting or virtual "sticky notes." View any annotations made by others on any website visited. Share websites with groups or the entire Diigo social network. Comment on the bookmarks of others or solicit comments to your shared bookmarks."

Learning to critically assess the reliability of crowdsourcing review sites. This man turned his shed into the Number 1 top rated restaurant in London on Trip Advisor!!

"Created each year by Lori Lewis and Chadd Callahan of Cumulus Media, the above graphic shows the incredible scale of e-commerce, social media, email, and other content creation that happens on the web."

The evolution of Facebook within a world of competing apps.

"How Tech Experts Monitor Their Teens on Social Media How can parents keep up with smartphones? Tech executives take various approaches to managing their children's social-media use"

Some good points made in this article.

Teaching students to navigate the news with an analytical mind is an essential skill for students, argues the director of the National Literacy Trust

"Cyberbullying is NOT a technology issue-here's how to really combat it. BY REGINALD CORBITT January 31st, 2017 If schools and parents want to combat cyberbullying, they need to understand relational aggression first."

Jenny Watts recently shared this useful website of activities on website evaluation.

This toolkit is the result of the collective efforts of the Global Citizenship Education Working Group (GCED-WG), a collegium of 90 organizations and experts co-convened by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the Center for Universal Education (CUE) at the Brookings Institution, and the United Nations Secretary General's Global Education First Initiative's Youth Advocacy Group (GEFI-YAG). To gather the measurement tools in this collection, the working group surveyed GCED programs and initiatives that target youth (ages 15-24). For the purposes of this project, GCED was defined as any educational effort that aims to provide the skills, knowledge, and experiences and to encourage the behaviors, attitudes, and values that allow young persons to be agents of long-term, positive changes in their own lives and in the lives of people in their immediate and larger communities (with the community including the environment).

"What The Slime Trend Teaches Us About Kids And Marketing"