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Have your students sign up to become the Carnegie Cyber Academy's next cadet by completing missions on topics like cyber defense and security. Or, supplement your digital citizenship instruction with games and resources available on their website

Digizen - Internet Social Networking advice and guidance for young people, parents and teachers

A great teacher resource with ideas to integrate digital citizenship into lesson plans across all subjects. I love the suggested reading list for students such as the Case of the Digital Deception by Ellie O'Ryan and The Pirates of Plagiarism by Lisa Downey.

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.

Collect, nurture, and share ideas across desktop and mobile platforms with Evernote. Your thoughts are always with you, always accessible, always in sync. Useful collaboration note taking tools and ability to save articles and clippings from Internet for critically analyzing sources.

Short Description: Evernote is an IOS/Android compatible app that promotes collaboration as well as productivity. It allows for its users to take notes in various unique formats, ranging from text, sketching, photos, journaling, graphs, audio, video and my personal favorite: sticky notes that you can actually write on! These notes automatically can sync to every device the user is logged into, and can be shared for real time collaboration within a classroom - perfect for group projects and note sharing. And if a student forgot to write something down, they can take a picture of the board and have the photo scanned into their notes on the app. Examples for Uses: Project collaboration Teacher note sharing amongst all student devices Real time in class collaboration on documents and slides Readings can be instantly shared and annotated via App Students can pick note taking format that best suits their learning needs

I used to use evernote and then moved away from it. It has come a long way and I may want to go back to using it again. Thanks for bringing my attention back to this.

QuickKey is an app that allows teachers to scan multiple choice tests/quizzes for a grade in seconds. It also sends the grades to your school's gradebook and evaluates the tests to locate trouble areas, allowing teachers to better gear lesson plans.

MathBlaster.com is a cool, online math virtual world filled with wacky aliens, cool gadgets, and fun math games for boys and girls. Learn math as you complete missions in outer space in this safe and secure virtual world for kids!

Shared Inquiry™ is a way to think critically and extract meaning from reading.

Create an online virtual classroom with any other classroom in not only the country but possibly even the world! A great way to get students to put their brains together regardless of the topic. With the endless possibilities of opinions, the discussion will be extremely satisfying!

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.

Spent is an interactive game created by McKinney that challenges you to think critically in order to manage your money, raise a child and make it through the month getting paid minimum wage after a stretch of unemployment.

Free website containing kids news articles, kids current events, kids news on science, sports, and more! Great way to bring current events into the classroom and discuss credible sources. Contains comprehension questions, critical thinking challenges and vocabulary lists to push students to learn more about a topic.

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.