Digital Life

Massachusetts state officials created this portal of fake sites to educate adults on digital literacy

Domo Animate, Powered by GoAnimate, is a way to easily create Domo animations and slideshows. How can we use this as a tool to teach cyber safety?

Google Launches New Search Education Site with Lesson Plans Google has launched a new site called Search Education aimed at educators who want to teach online search strategies. The site includes lesson plans geared at different levels of expertise - beginner, intermediate and advanced- as well as training videos that walk through different strategies for subjects like using Creative Commons and Google maps.

As technology becomes more of an integral part of our society, it's important to help students understand appropriate use of social media tools and other digital citizenship skills. Edmodo offers various resources to help you get started, including security best practices, sample guidelines and a sample code of conduct for your students.

Using twitter in the classroom 

Those efforts have indeed shrunk the divide. But they have created an unintended side effect, one that is surprising and troubling to researchers and policy makers and that the government now wants to fix.

An activity for building knowledge of search?

great opportunity to promote social change and video

mentor text for students blog

mentor text for student blog

from ISTE presentation, what is digital citizenship by grade level

classes to support creating projects with students

good article on why tech write with kids and some great mentor text

by Elleana

When I was in the classroom, I worked hard to integrate social learning into the day as often as possible. Many teachers claim that they understand the importance of social learning, and that they teach and practice social skills with their students throughout the day.

A great mentor text to create a ed tech site for club or classroom

just interesting thoughts as you go back to school this fall, who sets the direction at your site?

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