You'll notice the pages of this wiki (on the left hand side) are the Common Core Standards. We have attempted to align iPad apps with each standard. There will be overlap - one app may meet more than one standard. Please leave comments, suggest apps, or share your experiences in the discussion tab of the appropriate page.
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"Our job as teachers is to draw our students attention to the fact that copy-paste culture is destructive and that appropriate citations and crediting back the sources, if ever we are allowed to, are two important things we always need to invoke as we are dealing with both digital and non digital content. I have an entire section in this blog packed full of resources, tools and tips on how to teach your students about copyright, check it out here to learn more.
Today, I am sharing with you this wonderful flowchart I come across in digital inspiration. You can use it with you students to teach them about the kinds of images to cite and how to do so."
The Common Core State Standards provide a framework for teaching information fluency in Grades 3 through 12. To help educators in this task, relevant information fluency competencies are mapped to the appropriate standards.
First of all I would like to thank you for purchasing this book. The book "Coloring Book (Fruits Coloring Book For Children)" is designed by "Hilda Flowers", especially for kids/children of age group 0-9 years. I(Hilda Flowers) love drawing and sketching, and so I planned to create books for kids, with which they can not only learn something, but also enjoy it. So, I am now going to create coloring books for children. In this your child will learn about various fruits and can fill appropriate color in the fruits images given in the book. I have designed other Coloring books as well for kids, you can find them online by searching for "Coloring Book By Hilda Flowers". I am sure your kid will enjoy these books.
"In a world of information overload, it is vital for students to not only find information but also determine its validity and appropriateness. Our information literacy material demystifies the process of finding and validating online information. These vital skills are needed as students prepare for our global economy."
Love it or hate it, no one can ignore Microsoft Office. One way or the other it manages to pop up in our lives. Even if a lot of people have found cooler alternatives in the cloud like Google Docs, a lot of businesses and most Government Offices continue to use Microsoft Office to create and edit documents.So it's only appropriate to use the lemons to make lemonade. Even if we can't ditch Microsoft Office for good, we can leverage the cloud to collaborate on them. Agilewords is one such app that helps users to edit and review documents in the cloud.From WebAppStorm
In July, 2011, the AASL Board approved the Position Statement on Labeling Books with Reading Levels. The AASL position statement defines standard directional spine labels and compares them to reading level labels (associated with computerized reading programs) as they are often applied in school libraries. The statement also offers suggestions for concerned librarians to be aware not only of the possible negative effects of these labels on children as they browse, but also offers suggestions for voicing those concerns.
There are proponents and opponents to how computerized reading programs are implemented in schools and their effects on school library collections and students' free access to books of their choice. A school librarian (name withheld) shares this story of how labels affect students' choices in her school.
"Recently I helped a student who came to me while his class was in the library browsing. As the librarian of a middle school library, I often see situations such as this one. The boy had been most recently reading about George Washington and Ben Franklin. His class assignment that day was to checkout two computerized reading program books within his tested reading level and thus was "allowed" only one free choice book. "But I'd rather not have to check out labeled books and there are some books I'd like today that don't have the dots or reading level labels on the backs of the books. Does that mean Ican't check them out?" he asks me.
The boy went on to say that he'd rather be allowed to check out three books on his favorite non-fiction topics, regardless of reading level. As he expresses his frustration, he lowers his voice and moves toward a corner of the library where there are no other students. "I'm a pretty good reader," he said quietly, "and I really like reading about the American Revolution. But I have to stay within a certain range. I can't find many books in my reading level that are really interest
build your own Google Custom Search Engine. In your search engine you can specify the image hosts that you want your search engine to index. When your students use your search engine the only content that will appear will be from the sites that you have deemed appropriate for them to view.
With more and more of the world's content online, it is critical that students understand how to effectively use web search to find quality sources appropriate to their task. We've created a series of lessons to help you guide your students to use search meaningfully in their schoolwork and beyond.
On this page, you'll find Search Literacy lessons and A Google A Day classroom challenges. Our search literacy lessons help you meet the new Common Core State Standards and are broken down based on level of expertise in search: Beginner, Intermediate, or Advanced.
For users, Web2.0 was all about reorganizing web-based practices around Friends
typically labeled social networkING sites were never really about networking for most users. They were about socializing inside of pre-existing networks.
ACT ONE : NETWORK EFFECTS
Friendster was designed as to be an online dating site.
MySpace aimed to attract all of those being ejected from Friendster
Facebook had launched as a Harvard-only site before expanding to other elite institutions
And only in 2006, did they open to all.
in the 2006-2007 school year, a split amongst American teens occurred
college-bound kids from wealthier or upwardly mobile backgrounds flocked to Facebook
urban or less economically privileged backgrounds rejected the transition and opted to stay with MySpace
At this stage, over 35% of American adults have a profile on a social network site
the single most important factor in determining whether or not a person will adopt one of these sites is whether or not it is the place where their friends hangout.
do you know anything about the cluster dynamics of the users
all fine and well if everyone can get access to the same platform, but when that's not the case, new problems emerge.
ACT TWO : YOUTH VS. ADULTS
showcases the ways in which some tools are used differently by different groups.
For American teenagers, social network sites became a social hangout space, not unlike the malls
Adults, far more than teens, are using Facebook for its intended purpose as a social utility. For example, it is a tool for communicating with the past.
dynamic more visible than in the recent "25 Things" phenomena.
Adults are crafting them to show-off to people from the past and connect the dots between different audiences as a way of coping with the awkwardness of collapsed contexts.
Twitter is all the rage, but are kids using it? For the most part, no.
many are leveraging Twitter to be part of a broad dialogue
We design social media for an intended audience but aren't always prepared for network effects or the different use cases that emerge when people decide to repurpose their technology.
The key lesson from the rise of social media for you is that a great deal of software is best built as a coordinated dance between you and the users.
you are probably even aware of how inaccurate the public portrait of risk is
ACT THREE : RESHAPING PUBLICS
I want to discuss five properties of social media and three dynamics. These are the crux of what makes the phenomena we're seeing so different from unmediated phenomena.
1. Persistence.
The bits-wise nature of social media means that a great deal of content produced through social media is persistent by default.
You can copy and paste a conversation from one medium to another, adding to the persistent nature of it
2. Replicability.
much easier to alter what's been said than to confirm that it's an accurate portrayal of the original conversation.
3. Searchability.
Search changes the landscape, making information available at our fingertips
4. Scalability.
Conversations that were intended for just a friend or two might spiral out of control and scale to the entire school
5. (de)locatability.
This paradox means that we are simultaneously more and less connected to physical space.
Those five properties are intertwined, but their implications have to do with the ways in which they alter social dynamics.
1. Invisible Audiences.
lurkers who are present at the moment
visitors who access our content at a later date or in a different environment
having to present ourselves and communicate without fully understanding the potential or actual audience
2. Collapsed Contexts
Social media brings all of these contexts crashing into one another and it's often difficult to figure out what's appropriate, let alone what can be understood.
3. Blurring of Public and Private
As we are already starting to see, this creates all new questions about context and privacy, about our relationship to space and to the people around us.
One of the key challenges is learning how to adapt to an environment in which these properties and dynamics play a key role. This is a systems problem.
Important summary of how social media works for youth and adults, and how five properties and three dynamics have a systematic affect that we all must deal with.
Feed readers
are probably the most important digital tool for today's learner because they
make sifting through the amazing amount of content added to the Internet
easy. Also known as aggregators, feed readers are free tools that can
automatically check nearly any website for new content dozens of times a
day---saving ridiculous amounts of time and customizing learning experiences for
anyone.
Imagine
never having to go hunting for new information from your favorite sources
again. Learning goes from a frustrating search through thousands of
marginal links written by questionable characters to quickly browsing the
thoughts of writers that you trust, respect and enjoy.
Feed readers can
quickly and easily support blogging in the classroom, allowing teachers to
provide students with ready access to age-appropriate sites of interest that are
connected to the curriculum. By collecting sites in advance and organizing
them with a feed reader, teachers can make accessing information manageable for
their students.
Here are several
examples of feed readers in action:
Used specifically as
a part of one classroom project, this feed list contains information related to
global warming that students can use as a starting point for individual
research.
While there are literally dozens of different feed reader
programs to choose from (Bloglines andGoogle Reader are two
biggies), Pageflakes is a favorite of
many educators because it has a visual layout that is easy to read and
interesting to look at. It is also free and web-based. That
means that users can check accounts from any computer with an Internet
connection. Finally, Pageflakes makes it quick and easy to add new
websites to a growing feed list—and to get rid of any websites that users are no
longer interested in.
What's even
better: Pageflakes has been developinga teacher version of their tooljust for us that includes an online grade tracker,
a task list and a built in writing tutor. As Pageflakes works to perfect
its teacher product, this might become one of the first kid-friendly feed
readers on the market. Teacher Pageflakes users can actually blog and create a
discussion forum directly in their feed reader---making an all-in-one digital
home for students.
For more
information about the teacher version of Pageflakes, check out this
review:
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'You can download a PDF of the Scope & Sequence (en español).
Check out these other links:
Curriculum Overview (en español)
Student Assessment
Standards Alignment Charts
Order Materials on a Flash Drive
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Internet Safety
Privacy & Security
Relationships & Communication
Cyberbullying
Digital Footprint & Reputation
Self-image & Identity
Information Literacy
Creative Credit & Copyright
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