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More and more, we're hearing the term "Digital Citizenship." I think we should simply call it "Citizenship." In our increasingly connected world, what it means to be a citizen is contextualized by more than just our countries and communities; we are global citizens.

It's no surprise that Twitter, inarguably one of the most popular social platforms, has more than tweens and "hip brands" (like us, of course!) tweeting tidbits into the universe. Teachers, professors, and other types of educators use this platform to bring academia into the 21st Century, share ideas, and intellectually influence their followers.

The greatest software invented for human safety is the human brain. It's time that we start using those brains. We must mix head knowledge with action. In my classroom, I use two essential approaches in the digital citizenship curriculum that I teach: proactive knowledge and experiential knowledge.

For the promise of learning technology to truly become reality for students and teachers, classrooms have to be equipped with the tools that fit their needs. There are a lot of factors to finding the right match. One of the most important, we've found, is also one of the most overlooked - procurement.

n partnership with IDEO, a leading international design and innovation firm, Digital Promise developed " Evolving Ed-Tech Procurement in School Districts," an exploration of ideas to make learning technology procurement more modern, efficient, and attuned to demand.