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Most students still push through a seven- or eight-period day, 45-day quarter and 180-day school year. Unfortunately, mandates, physical plant limitations, local political pressures and institutional traditions have limited even the best intentions of rethinking the traditional school calendar and schedule. This is why the flexibility found in virtual schooling environments (1) should be so attractive to educators, students and parents alike. Not bound by the constraints of physical space or out-of-date school calendars, virtual schools can provide opportunities for students to take courses at a time and place that meets their needs
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oo often, independent virtual schools might be no more than diploma mills openly competing against local schools.
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Instead of competing, virtual schools need to partner with local schools and allow individual students to create what Staker and Horn (2) call a "self blend model."
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schools need to investigate how virtual options may provide multiple pathways for their students to earn credits, recover learning, explore an interest or follow a passion, all while taking control of their education through a variety of modalities
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We've reached a point where multiple pathways are, should and can be available to any student, anywhere at any time
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t's time for schools to unite and break the barriers of time, place and tradition so that each student can be empowered to develop his or her own learning path, a path which can include a blended mix of brick and mortar, virtual, experiential and personal learning options.
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We leave a digital trail of breadcrumbs and establish our digital selves by sharing, commenting, and communicating like never before
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Digital Citizenship is a principle that helps users understand how to utilize technology in an appropriate way
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But in classrooms, teachers monitor the activities of students as they always have. In regards to students adding or accessing inappropriate content, we have software that reports this information to us.
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f students violate our acceptable use policy, we have ramifications that range from loss of Internet access to suspension
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However, the bigger issue is education and letting students know that these comments will become part of their digital footprint and could hamper them down the road
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Shally Ackerman on 04 Sep 12

This article gives information about digital citizenship from the perspective of a teacher and school principle.

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8 elements of Digital Literacy
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Cultural [Cu] Cognitive [Cg] Constructive [Cn] Communication [Co] Confidence [Cf] Creative [Cr] Critical [Ct] Civic [Ci]
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he following is my interpretation of how they might be used for teaching and learning in a primary classroom
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definition in its publication Digital Literacy
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To be digitally literate is to have access to a broad range of practices and cultural resources that you are able to apply to digital tools. It is the ability to make and share meaning in different modes and formats; to create, collaborate and communicate effectively and to understand how and when digital technologies can best be used to support these processes.
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The challenge is how we as teachers can foster digital literacy in all areas of the school curriculum
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it is our responsibility to ensure children are not only confident users but can also make informed decisions about the use of such digital technologies to help them in their learning
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How can we ensure that our learners are digitally literate?
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We can help children understand their role in the wider community and how they will have an effect on it. What they say becomes incredibly important when you begin to use digital tools to publish their content online for the world to see
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Don’t envisage this as how your learners will use digital tools but how they will use their own cognitive tools to do so
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In today’s digital world children have a multitude of ways to communicate that are more or less digital variations of those tools 30 years previously.
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developing links and strengthening those bonds by fostering projects and interaction is the next step
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Go with what the learners suggest, follow up their questions even if it isn’t in your panning
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Learners today need to know which tools are the best to communicate the message they want to say, they need to make deliberate and informed choices that recognise what these digital communication tools can do and how best to utilise them.
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You want a class of learners that will know which tools will get the job done effectively and which tools will only hold them back
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Never before has a learner been presented with so much choice to draw a picture – from pencil and paper to digital pens and paper on a tablet device
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owever the creative potential is being held back by teachers who are either not prepared to use these tools in their class due to other ill conceived curriculum pressures or they just don’t know how.
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How do we know it is written by the author claiming it to be so? We need to develop critical awareness and thinking
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Children cannot go on accepting the first result they receive from a search
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Digital Literacy must be developed across every part of the curriculum and not just ICT and our learners must be given the freedom to do so in schools today
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Shally Ackerman on 01 Sep 12

This article breaks down some of the concepts that go into digital literacy.

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