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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.

A collection of high school bulletin board ideas geared for the ELA classroom.

Imagine a school where each subject, from mathematics to history, has a gaming component. That's the case at Quest to Learn (Q2L), a sixth- through 12th-grade school in New York City. The school opened in 2009, with an emphasis on integrating games into learning, such as a one-trimester gaming experience in which a scientist travels through the human body, a post on Edudemic reports.

A site that blends interactive learning for kids in grades K-8 with resources for teachers and parents -- all to complement Harcourt School publications

Cloud based web filtering and parental controls that work seamlessly across the schools and homes.

The QR, or "Quick Response" code, is much like barcode, except that it can hold more data. With one quick scan using a QR code reader app (most of which are free) the "matrix image," as Edutopia's Monica Burns calls it, can lead you to a specific place on the web.

Remember when taking a field trip involved packing a sack lunch, getting on a school bus with the entire third grade and riding to the nearest museum? It was an all-day experience that involved sightseeing, but only in fairly close proximity to your school building.

Manage your professional brand as a teacher. Create a profile and share it with parents, schools, or organizations. Build and engage with your professional network of other teachers or subject matter experts. Be a subject matter expert and create posts, share news, gain insights, and open opportunities beyond your school district.

Poll Everywhere is the easiest way to gather live responses in any venue... conferences, concerts, classrooms, and company off-sites - anywhere with internet. We've been working to end 'death by PowerPoint' and raise the bar on presenting since 2008. More than 4,000 schools and 100,000 teachers poll with Poll Everywhere.

For anyone in education including teachers, students, parents, librarians, schools, and universities. Featuring Wikispaces Classroom and Wikispaces Campus.

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.

Digital Passport is a great way to teach digital citizenship in 3rd through 6th-grade classrooms. It provides a foundation for appropriate and safe online behavior by offering fun and interactive lessons and meets Common Core and ISTE Nets Standards. Students can engage in videos, games, and quizzes about cyber-bullying, respect, digital literacy, and many other topics to promote digital citizenship. The site offers educator materials that can be utilized by simply registering for a login and password. Both students and teachers can access Digital Passport on computers, tablets, or phones in school and at home. The application can be accessed directly through the website or downloaded. One way to implement this tool in lessons is to allow students to have the opportunity to work on Chrome books or in a lab. Students can be assigned quizzes through the teacher dashboard. Once students get through the lessons, they earn badges and a "Certificate of Achievement," which allows for positive reinforcement. Teachers can monitor student progress during the activity and print reports to share with each student, their parents, and administrators. During lessons, students can be assigned to work individually on a device or as a class on a smart board, which allows for an exciting and innovative way to learn about digital citizenship.

Viber is a free application that allows you send texts and make calls to your students and their parents and encourages students to communicate and coordinate their school work. For example, when working on group assignments, students can create their own group to decide on team roles, plan their work, and arrange any meeting times. In addition, teachers can create a class or parent group to send out notices, remind students about deadlines, and share information.

Poetry can and should be an important part of our daily lives. Poems can inspire and make us think about what it means to be a member of the human race. By just spending a few minutes reading a poem each day, new worlds can be revealed.

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.

Although QR codes have long since lost their shiny, new glow, the technology hasn't lost its value in education. The rise of one-to-one computing and bring-your-own-device programs in K-12 schools means students access digital learning tools more than ever before.

The Comic Creator invites students to compose their own comic strips for a variety of contexts (prewriting, pre- and postreading activities, response to literature, and so on). The organizers focus on the key elements of comic strips by allowing students to choose backgrounds, characters, and props, as well as to compose related dialogue (shown at left). This versatile tool can be used by students from kindergarten through high school, for purposes ranging from learning to write dialogue to an in-depth study of a formerly neglected genre. The tool is easy to use, made even easier with the Comic Strip Planning Sheet, a printable PDF that comic creators can use to draft and revise their work before creating and printing their final comics. After completing their comic, students have the ability to print out and illustrate their final versions for feedback and assessment.

Problems Worth Solving Discovery Education accelerates school districts' digital transition through comprehensive standards-based content, professional development, formative assessment, and community engagement proven to positively impact student achievement. A digital textbook series, built from scratch for today's learners and current standards, engages students with dynamic, multimodal content and an inquiry approach.

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