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Great article about the difference between literacy and fluency 

There's a massive educational game being leveraged right now that you probably haven't heard of. It's called Skoolbo and, as of this posting, has seen students answer more than 8 million literacy questions in just under half a year. Literacy scores have improved by an average of 22% since students started using the service.

Google image search is being redesigned. I hope that one of the big changes that the quote below means is that we'll have more transparency with copyright. So many times, when I ask a source, students say "Google Images." No. No. No. Google images isn't a source, it is a search engine. You must quote the original source!! Hopefully this will make it easier. From Google Webmaster central... "We now display detailed information about the image (the metadata) right underneath the image in the search results, instead of redirecting users to a separate landing page. We're featuring some key information much more prominently next to the image: the title of the page hosting the image, the domain name it comes from, and the image size."

Database by Larry Rosen, author of "iDisorder" and "Rewired". Might be helpful in teaching digital citizenship in the classroom.

Great discussion questions on evaluating websites.

Some excellent resources available for teachers and students to do with digital citizenship