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Teaching and Modeling Good Digital Citizenship | MindShift - 0 views

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  • Still, digital citizenship entails more than just protecting oneself. Incidents of cyberbullying and harassment continue to occur regularly,
  • Somewhere between kids’ intuitive social savvy and their online behavior lies an opportunity for both parents and educators to teach responsible digital citizenship, and there are plenty of organizations dedicated to this task alone.
  • Educators have lots of options in modeling good digital citizenship with projects they can embark upon with students
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Virtual Schools: From Rivalry to Partnership | Edutopia - 0 views

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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 Not bound by the constraints of physical space or out-of-date school calendars, virtual schools can provide opportunities for students to take courses at a time and place that meets their needs
  • oo often, independent virtual schools might be no more than diploma mills openly competing against local schools.
  • 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
  • We've reached a point where multiple pathways are, should and can be available to any student, anywhere at any time
  • 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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How Students View Digital Citizenship | Edudemic - 0 views

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  • We leave a digital trail of breadcrumbs and establish our digital selves by sharing, commenting, and communicating like never before
  • Digital Citizenship is a principle that helps users understand how to utilize technology in an appropriate way
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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Teaching Digital Citizenship in the Elementary Classroom | Edutopia - 0 views

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  • My 2nd graders wrote stories on the fabulous site, Storybird (1), last year, and then got a chance to practice proper commenting techniques by leaving comments on each other's stories.
  • teachable moments in digital footprint
  • Carly Guinn on 04 Sep 12
     
    Digital Citizenship for Elementary -- great resources
  • Kimberly George on 04 Sep 12
     
    Good find Carly- I think that it will become increasingly important for elementary students to learn digital etiquette.
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The Young and the Digital | S. Craig Watkins - 0 views

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  • Carly Guinn on 04 Sep 12
     
    Great source of online articles regarding "teens and technology" -- gives a great POV on incorporating technology into education
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Cybraryman Internet Catalogue - 1 views

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  • Carly Guinn on 04 Sep 12
     
    SO HAPPY our reading for the week included a link to this catalog of educational Twitter chats.  I am going to love this!
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Crossing the Digital Divide: Bridges and Barriers to Digital Inclusion | Edutopia - 0 views

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    • Denise Lenihan
      Denise Lenihan on 01 Sep 12
       
      Just what we were talking about in class about the "Paradox of Technology"
  • At the same time, many schools continue to demonize cell phone use during school, which may be an outdated policy. Not only are there an increasing number of educational applications for mobiles but, as Blake-Plock suggests, prohibiting phones now means "disconnecting the kid from what's actually happening in most of our lives."
    • Carly Guinn
      Carly Guinn on 04 Sep 12
       
      Related to "Bring Your Own Device" discussion -- what does increasing technology mean in the classroom?  Can teachers compete with phone apps?
  • Students who are excluded from the digital universe know exactly what they're missing
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  • "The digital divide, once seen as a factor of wealth, is now seen as a factor of education: Those who have the opportunity to learn technology skills are in a better position to obtain and make use of technology than those who do not."
    • Carly Guinn
      Carly Guinn on 04 Sep 12
       
      Something interesting to keep in mind as a teacher:  besides support from families, what digital/technological support do some students have access to and others don't?
  • This refers to literacy, not only with hardware and software but also with the vast global conversation that the Internet enables.
  • Only when there's equal opportunity for everyone to become literate in these technologies so that they're creating and not just consuming content can we begin to imagine closing the digital divide.
  • It's whether communities can leverage the capacity of networks to make learning more authentic and powerful for students.
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internetsavvy - home - 0 views

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  • Allie on 03 Sep 12
     
    Wiki full of information about digital literacy and citizenship.
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Digital Play | Scoop.it - 0 views

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  • smsanders on 03 Sep 12
     
    This is a wonderful site that provides pages of links to articles and websites that focus on using digital games and technology in the classroom. Check it out!
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50 Best Twitter Feeds to Follow Educational Gaming | TeachThought - 0 views

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  • smsanders on 03 Sep 12
     
    Here's a list of 50 of 50 of the best people to follow if you are interested in Educational Gaming
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Digital Literacy in the primary classroom | Steps in Teaching and Learning - 0 views

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  • 8 elements of Digital Literacy
  • Cultural [Cu] Cognitive [Cg] Constructive [Cn] Communication [Co] Confidence [Cf] Creative [Cr] Critical [Ct] Civic [Ci]
  • 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
  • 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.
  • The challenge is how we as teachers can foster digital literacy in all areas of the school curriculum
  • 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
  • How can we ensure that our learners are digitally literate?
  • 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
  • Don’t envisage this as how your learners will use digital tools but how they will use their own cognitive tools to do so
  • 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.
  • developing links and strengthening those bonds by fostering projects and interaction is the next step
  • Go with what the learners suggest, follow up their questions even if it isn’t in your panning
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • How do we know it is written by the author claiming it to be so? We need to develop critical awareness and thinking
  • Children cannot go on accepting the first result they receive from a search
  • 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
  • Shally Ackerman on 01 Sep 12
     
    This article breaks down some of the concepts that go into digital literacy.
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Teaching with TED talks - 2 views

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  • Emily Wampler on 30 Aug 12
     
    This wiki includes lesson ideas using TED talks as a base and growing from there.  Check it out!
  • Kasey Hutson on 01 Sep 12
     
    One of my favorite TED talks (perhaps not for classroom use, but for pre-service teacher use): http://www.ted.com/talks/taylor_mali_what_teachers_make.html
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Matoaka Elementary School - Resources - 1 views

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  • Carly Guinn on 01 Sep 12
     
    Lots of online instructional resources from my Elem. school website
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A List of 16 Websites Every Teacher should Know about - 1 views

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  • Emily Wampler on 30 Aug 12
     
    Good list of helpful teacher websites...
  • Kasey Hutson on 01 Sep 12
     
    This is awesome! I'm going to bookmark all of these sites :).
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Why Does My Child Have Poor Handwriting? | - 1 views

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  • Moni Del Toral on 01 Sep 12
     
    Take a look at Carol Fraser Hagen's website- not only providing tips for promoting literacy but also offering resources for parents of children with reading disabilities
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Back to School - 1 views

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  • Kelsey Agett on 01 Sep 12
     
    While we'll likely learn a lot of this stuff (like how to write a lesson plan) in our education classes, this website has a ton of practical classroom things.
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Education World: Tools to Motivate Your Students - 0 views

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  • Lyndsay Kilberg on 31 Aug 12
     
    interesting article on the use of extrinsic rewards in the classroom
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Connecting the Digital Dots: Literacy of the 21st Century (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | EDUCAU... - 0 views

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    • Emily Wampler
      Emily Wampler on 31 Aug 12
       
      And wonder where they get the idea that "funds are plentiful" in education?  Hmm...
  • The greatest challenge is moving beyond the glitz and pizzazz of the flashy technology to teach true literacy in this new milieu. Using the same skills used for centuries—analysis, synthesis, and evaluation—we must look at digital literacy as another realm within which to apply elements of critical thinking.
    • Emily Wampler
      Emily Wampler on 31 Aug 12
       
      This is really true; just because students may be "digitally savvy" doesn't mean they are competent/scholarly users of these digital technologies.  
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  • Digital literacy represents a person’s ability to perform tasks effectively in a digital environment, with “digital” meaning information represented in numeric form and primarily for use by a computer. Literacy includes the ability to read and interpret media (text, sound, images), to reproduce data and images through digital manipulation, and to evaluate and apply new knowledge gained from digital environments. According to Gilster,5 the most critical of these is the ability to make educated judgments about what we find online.
    • Emily Wampler
      Emily Wampler on 31 Aug 12
       
      It's interesting how they emphasize the higher orders of thinking here-analyze, judge, apply, evaluate, etc.  There's probably lots of room for creative thinking within digital literacy, too.  
  • Visual literacy, referred to at times as visual competencies, emerges from seeing and integrating sensory experiences. Focused on sorting and interpreting—sometimes simultaneously—visible actions and symbols, a visually literate person can communicate information in a variety of forms and appreciate the masterworks of visual communication.6 Visually literate individuals have a sense of design—the imaginative ability to create, amend, and reproduce images, digital or not, in a mutable way. Their imaginations seek to reshape the world in which we live, at times creating new realities. According to Bamford,7 “Manipulating images serve[s] to re-code culture.”
    • Emily Wampler
      Emily Wampler on 31 Aug 12
       
      Ah ha!  There's the bit about creative thinking.  They just give it a different name: visual literacy.  
  • Competency begins with understanding
  • The idea that the world we shape in turn shapes us is a constant.
  • In the end, it seems far better to have the skills and competencies to comprehend and discriminate within a common language than to be left out, unable to understand
    • Emily Wampler
      Emily Wampler on 31 Aug 12
       
      I think this definitely is true, and is a good reason why we need to incorporate digital literacy in the classroom. 
  • the concept of literacy has assumed new meanings.
  • Children learn these skills as part of their lives, like language, which they learn without realizing they are learning it.3
  • A common scenario today is a classroom filled with digitally literate students being led by linear-thinking, technologically stymied instructors.
  • Although funds may be plentiful
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