Skip to main content

Home/ Engage Pilot/ Group items tagged elementary

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
Heather McKinney-Rewa

Google Templates for Student Projects - uTeach With Technology - 0 views

sites.google.com/...google-templates

google education learning

shared by Heather McKinney-Rewa on 03 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Heather McKinney-Rewa on 03 Feb 11
     
    Lots of lower elementary templates.  Could use a couple in the high school, too!
Kim Ibara

Teaching About the Web Includes Troublesome Parts - NYTimes.com - 3 views

www.nytimes.com/...09cyberkids.html

teaching education technology curriculum

shared by Kim Ibara on 14 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Mr. Jenkins this year began using lessons from Common Sense Media, which cautions students to consider their online behavior before they get into trouble.
    • Kim Ibara
      Kim Ibara on 14 Apr 10
       
      Maybe we should look into this for the pilot classrooms. Not sure if it is geared toward high school/middle school or elementary
  • “We can’t make the awareness of Web issues solely person- and relationship-centered,” said Joseph Turow, a professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Children should learn things like what a cookie or a Web virus is, and how corporations profit from tracking consumers online, he said.
    • Kim Ibara
      Kim Ibara on 14 Apr 10
       
      Alan November's book "Engaging Students with Technology" addresses some of these issues. I think all pilot teachers should begin the year teaching students about these things as well as how to validate sites when doing research.
  • Financed largely by foundation money, Common Sense will offer a free curriculum to schools this fall that teaches students how to behave online. New York City and Omaha have decided to offer it; Denver, the District of Columbia, Florida, Los Angeles, Maine and Virginia are considering it.
  • ...1 more annotation...
  • Common Sense’s classes, based on research by Howard Gardner, a Harvard psychology and education professor, are grouped into topics he calls “ethical fault lines”: identity (how do you present yourself online?); privacy (the world can see everything you write); ownership (plagiarism, reproducing creative work); credibility (legitimate sources of information); and community (interacting with others).
1 - 4 of 4
Showing 20▼ items per page