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My main focus through all of it is that it’s about the journey,

from the trenches of the classroom it can often be hard to step back to see the big picture, when you're doing your best just to keep afloat every day.

McGrath and Davies argue that school needs to keep up with the times by promoting creativity, entrepreneurship, design thinking and hands on skills

easier to streamline other routine teacher tasks like emailing updates to parents, providing feedback on summative assessments, and even keeping track of classroom materials

In the "fight or flight response," your body is ready to keep you safe but is often overreacting to events that can be better resolved from a more relaxed state

We recommend connecting and growing your professional learning community. Twitter or Facebook is a great way to keep up to date with recommended resources, examples of effective use and trouble shooting” (Cameron Lockie)

YouTube can be used as a valuable teaching tool in the classroom, but while it is chockfull of educational content and useful knowledge – it is also filled to the brim with distracting videos. Cute kittens, people “failing”, music videos, cartoon series, and more – content that distracts kids from using YouTube as a learning channel. Fortunately Google recognized this problem and has launched a solution called YouTube for Schools.

With today's digital kids, it's the responsibility of parents, teachers, and other adult mentors to join kids on the digital playgrounds and to teach them to be happy and healthy cyber-citizens. Keep reading to learn suggestions for helping kids become happy, healthy cyber-citizens.