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Common Sense K-12 Digital Citizenship Curriculum is an effective tool for teachers to use to help students learn and thrive in a world of media and technology safely and responsibly.

Scrible is a free annotation tool available to users across many platforms, with a fully integrated Google Chrome extension. Simply highlighting information on a current events article about emails, and cross-referencing the ISTE infographic on Digital Citizens, students can come to their own conclusions about the do's and don'ts of being a responsible digital citizen.

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.

Website with app available for easy creation of multiple choice quizzes. Generates statistics as quizzes are answered. Available across multiple platforms.

The i-clicker system is widely used in colleges, and is great for assessment. There's also an app companion for it.

A tool allowing each student to privately give instant feedback about their understanding of an assignment or question in real time to their teacher.

Use Online Quiz Creator to create quizzes and tests for icebreakers, pre-assessment, assessment, or review. This app can be accessed on computers, smartphones, or tablets. It includes various types of quiz questions, for example, multiple choice or image choice. Students can also utilize this app to make their own quizzes to present to the class during presentations. Online Quiz Creator makes learning fun for students!

GeoGebra is both online and an app you can download for your phone or computer. It is great for any math teacher or student. With GeoGebra, you can graph functions and shapes and so much more. It's good for students because it gives them tangible examples of the confusing functions that they just stare at during class. You can also create groups for your students to use so it can become a group effort on projects or students can take the lesson home with them.

Always trying to work smarter, I make Google Forms do the data analysis for me. By creating an adaptive form, I am able to quickly, efficiently, and impressively record student data. The results are easily translatable into flexible grouping options, formative instruction materials, and of course, good old fashioned tests. Combine Forms with the output google spreadsheet, with conditional formatting, and Flubaroo, and you're working smarter than you've ever done before!

With the materials on this site, you can help your students become skilled searchers- whether they're just starting out with search, or ready for more advanced training.

Inquiry-oriented lesson tool allowing students to analyze, synthesize, and evaluate different online resources.

Teach your students vital information literacy skills with this website.

Scholastic MATH promotes students to use articles and other forms of media that are reliable and academically focused.

Turn your ideas into impactful social graphics, web stories and animated videos-in minutes. It's free, start now on the web or in the app store.

Instagrok is a great tool to use with students who are learning how to conduct online research. Students and teachers can access this application on any device. Teachers can create free student accounts and their own dashboard to assign tasks, provide search guidelines, and monitor student progress. To access all of the dashboard features, there is a relatively affordable yearly subscription. Through customized searches, students are able to read and assess information, take notes, create concept maps, and cite sources. Instagrok can also help students to collaborate on group projects and develop critical reading skills while collecting information for papers and assignments.

Join over 3 million students, teachers, and parents using our free math game for Grades 1 - 8. Prodigy is a strategic math game that helps develop critical thinking, decision making, and math skills for younger students.

Make remote design work Online brainstorming, synthesis and collaboration. Here, I am using the platform in order to have students critically engage in an information/media literacy lesson aimed at evaluating the credibility/validity of independent and group research.