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No Adults Allowed!
12/2/2009
Quilt of Trusted Adults
Working with NetSmartz, the Northwestern District Attorney’s Office has empowered children to teach each other about Internet safety. Director of Community Education and Outreach, Cynthia Boyle, shares about their work and what can happen when adults take a step back.
In Massachusetts, Clicky has taken on some additional duties: working with high school students to teach first and second graders how to be safer online. Members of the 2008-2009 Youth Advisory Board (YAB), which consists of high school students from local schools, decided it was time for them to take an active role in helping teach basic Internet safety to the youngest members of their communities.
In addition to teaching with Clicky, YAB members also provide the first and second graders with some hands-on classroom projects that reinforce the safety messages they learned from Clicky. While in the classrooms, YAB members lead discussions with the first and second graders about who a trusted adult is and create a list of the students’ answers. Then, each student is given a quilt square and asked to draw a picture of their trusted adult.
When the students are finished with their drawings, YAB members tie the squares together creating a Quilt of Trusted Adults. Each class keeps their quilt to hang in their classroom for the rest of the school year. Finally, an awards ceremony is held, where the YAB members give each student a Clicky certificate of completion and an activity book to take home.
Through teaching lessons about Internet safety, the YAB members have those concepts reinforced in their own lives. It is just more one step that our community is taking towards helping every child stay safer online.Some Real NetSmartz Kids
11/25/2009
The students at St. Thomas Aquinas School know what it means to be safer online. Watch them use their NetSmartz in this Internet safety skit.
Have you made your own Internet safety video? Let us know! You could be featured on our blog.
TeachersFirst Resource Listings - 0 views
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The goal of Signed Stories is to increase the literacy of deaf children; however, it is a great resource for all children. After choosing a story, you will see the text, hear the story and see it in sign language. Almost 100 titles are available and can be searched by topic or by browsing all titles. Some stories offer more options than others. Many stories have pause and rewind buttons, so you can replay to see signs again. 10902 In the Classroom: Use stories on the interactive whiteboard or projector to teach story elements - pause as the story is read to allow students to retell details to the stopping point then make predictions of what will happen next. Help students understand disabilities and adaptations to disabilities through watching the stories being told in sign language. This is also a great resource for students with deaf/hearing impaired parents or students/teachers trying to learn or practice sign language. In sign language classes, consider creating your own signed story videos for children's books and share them on a tool such as TeacherTube [ http://www.teachersfirst.com/single.cfm?id=9419 ]reviewed here.
UnBoxed: online - 0 views
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he use of models, so that kids have a vision of where they’re trying to go.
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learning target is not just a new term for goal or objective. It means taking a lesson goal or state framework and putting it in kids’ language and making it transparent to the kids, so you’re saying to students, this is what we’re trying to learn today.
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Crafting Beautiful work
Copy Paste Character - 1 views
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Have you ever tried to find a specific character that you needed for a word document such as an icon of a pair of scissors? Tons of characters that you can just paste into word documents.
Of iPhone Apps for Kids and Learning Through Gaming - I - SmartBean - 0 views
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and not just formal learning in the classroom, but informal and even “casual” learning 24X7.
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contends that fun is at the heart of why kids play games—and is one of the main things that keeps them engaged and willing to persist in ways that many teachers and parents only dream of
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Global Book Club « Tech:-)Happy - 0 views
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What do you get when you connect elementary students from New York and Singapore with the single focus of books? You get the Global Book Club (GBC), a Shelfari group organized by George Haines. GBC currently stands at 76 members of students and teachers from different classes from the Diocese of Rockville Centre and Singapore American School. Each week students login to their Shelfari group and have discussions about a variety of books which are self-selected by the students. The discussions are started by the students about books they’ve recently read, and if other students have read the same book, they chime in to the thread with their two cents worth. Here are some examples: Students love adding books to their shelves and sharing what they thought of each book. Knowing that they have a real, genuine audience truly motivates them to write more detailed reviews and improve their spelling, grammar and word choice. Being that this project also emphasizes discussions, we encourage the students to ask questions and keep the conversations going. Students also discovered some new books they probably wouldn’t have ever found, after reading some reviews written by other students. This entry was posted on Tuesday, April 6th, 2010 at 9:21 am and is filed under collaboration. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
Criteria for Effective Assessment in Project-Based Learning | Edutopia - 1 views
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role (R) that they will take on individually and as a group, such as marketer, author, blogger, campaign manager, etc
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lyricsKissYourBrain.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views
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lots of songs on lots of topics...verbs, human body, and more
Privacy law expert warns of the perils of social media and social reading - 3 views
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I thought this was interesting and timely.
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Thanks, Laura. Very interesting as you say. I really hadn't thought about this aspect of social media and sharing. The speed of new technology opportunities requires us to pause and consider consequences, which all too often we don't do.
Reading Menu Week of 5/12/2010 - 0 views
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Example of differentiated instruction plan for a 5th grade class. Notice the Menu theme. Students must choose an appetizer, entree and dessert. Shared by Chris L. Atkinson, a google certified teacher at ISTE.
Kathy Schrock's Kaffeeklatsch: Google Apps for Education overview - 0 views
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If I were to set this up again, I might simply create three domains-- one for staff, one for the middle and high school students with email turned on, and one for the younger students with email turned off, but with log-in access to Docs and Sites, to allow collaborative work to take place in a closed environment. You do not need to have email turned on to use these tools.We used the last two digits of YOG-last name-first initial for the student accounts. In addition, so their real name did not show up in the header of mail they sent, when setting up the accounts, I used the YOG-last name for the last name of the student and their first initial for their first name.
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Kathy's notes on setting up Google docs for education
Six A's of Project-Based Learning - 1 views
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Components of effective Project-Based Learning
Parents 'must let children choose what they read' | Life and style | The Observer - 0 views
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Interesting article about a theory that children are reading less due to helicopter-parent book choosing practices. I would like to see the research they did/used to base their theory on. I have certainly noticed that many of our students seem to to a better job of choosing books for pleasure reading when left to their own devices. I sometimes counsel parents to let children make their own choices when choosing pleasure reading, as classroom assignments are not negotiable. I believe students learn more about themselves as readers when allowed to fumble a bit in their choices - with guidance, of course.
Online Summer Math Programs - proven to reverse summer learning loss - 3 views
Research shows that most students lose more than 2 months of math skills over the summer. TenMarks summer math programs for grades 3-high school are a great way to reverse the summer learning loss...
TeachersFirst: Comics Resources - 0 views
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[ http://www.teachersfirst.com/spectopics/comics.cfm ]Wrap it in the Comics Looking for a great year-end wrap up? Why not have students or the whole class create a comic-style summary of major concepts or personal learning favorites from the year? Find terrific tools and comic starters in [ http://www.teachersfirst.com/spectopics/comics.cfm ]TeachersFirst's Comics Resources. Even primary grades can help create a comic as a whole class activity. Share the results on your school web page or as summer take-home links or printouts.
Crowley_Digital_Platform_ISTE.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views
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Literary Elements of Digital Fiction. 5th grade teacher presented at iste. great links and ideas
Easy Integration - top Websites - 0 views
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Many many sources of great teacher resources
Bringing History Home - 0 views
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history of own home town
edubloggercon - Page of Demos EBC 10 - 0 views
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more web 2.0 ideas