This parent-teacher communication app offers the texting features of Remind.com plus classroom calendars, a meeting scheduler, volunteer tracking, and more. Parents can also communicate with one another, and can consult a mini social-media feed incorporating everything going on with the group. Upload photos, videos, or documents. Bloomz is particularly well-suited to elementary school classes. Private, secure, easy, and fun.

This article has a lot of good resources for teaching digital citizenship, particularly for elementary educators.

This YouTube video describes how for children today, their entire lives are part of their digital dossier, often from before they are even born. Show it to your students and get their thoughts. They may not be aware of the digital footprints they leave behind every day. This is one way to address digital security and digital citizenship with your students.

Use these very short, interactive(!) YouTube videos to teach digital security, digital responsibility, and the dangers of not thinking critically about digital communicaiton. This series about the dangers of "sexting" would be a great conversation starter with middle and high school students.

Use the Wikipedia FAQ for Schools page as a resource to help teach digital literacy in your classroom! Students are going to use Wikipedia, so they need to be taught how and when it is or is not appropriate, starting in elementary school. Look, even Wikipedia warns against using Wikipedia in many instances! But it also points out what it can be good for, so explore both sides with students.

Remember the "Choose Your Own Adventure" books? Quandary is an application which offers virtual "quandaries" for students to address. Employing critical thinking skills, they make choices to try and solve the problem. Better yet, they can create their own problem-solving adventures.

StoryKit is a simple app offered by International Children's Digital Library for use on iPads or iPhones. Students can creatively make e-books or e-projects using text editing, images/drawing, and audio recording. They can use it to write individual stories, OR, can use it collaboratively to demonstrate learning within a particular unit in any subject! With images, text, and audio, students can create a virtual art gallery, or an exam study resource. StoryKit could also be used to create e-projects which serve as summative assessments for various subjects/units in the elementary years. Teachers break down the unit into topics, and assign each group of students a topic to create an e-book about. These can then be easily shared with families to demonstrate learning, too!