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Project Speak Up data from 2013

Project Speak Up data from 2013

ClassRealm is a customizable classroom management system built on role playing themes. Teachers can use ClassRealm to set up specific goals and achievements for individual students or entire classes, as well as to track student data and progress. Students can earn achievements and experience points by doing a wide array of school related tasks such as doing well on tests, helping others, and reading extra books. Parents can use ClassRealm to follow their child's many adventures online and can even create personalized side quests. ClassRealm makes learning a grand adventure!

This article discusses the author's lessons he's learned after creating over 100 flipped classroom lesson videos. He begins by stating not to focus on the video, "Teachers need to think like architects, not video producers." Also, pay attention to data, and he doesn't mean "Views" on YouTube. He incorporated Educanon into the videos to ask questions throughout student viewing.

Parent's Views on VR for Kids -- Helpful data to promote the use of VR in schools

Toolkit created by YALSA to help support and defend the use of social media with teens in school and public libraries- contains a variety of data and resources including examples of how various social media platforms are used.

2016 data

Common Sense Media's 2019 educator census 2019- gives current research & data about tech use in schools.

SDPC stands for the Student Data Privacy Consortium. If a district doesn't have a strong vetting procedure in place for online programs/apps, I would recommend teachers start with this source. It allows them to see if and how other districts vetted websites and apps.

Yesterday, the ever-churning machine that is the Internet pumped out more unfiltered digital data. Yesterday, 250 million photos were uploaded to Facebook, 864,000 hours of video were uploaded to YouTube, and 294 BILLION emails were sent. And that's not counting all the check-ins, friend requests, Yelp reviews and Amazon posts, and pins on Pintrest.

While looking at A Great List of OER Resources, I found G4C. I thought I'd see if there were any online games students could play to add to the immigration unit. Not only did I find a great one on iCivics called Liberty Belle's Nation, it also linked me to lesson plans with learning objectives, readings, a variety of activities to access comprehension, Scholastic Teacher links to interactive tour guides of Ellis Island, virtual field trip links, graphs with data, and (Scholastic) lesson plans on this topic, leading from the past to present.

Some of the most popular subject areas are: Computer Service, Language, Data Science, Business and Management, Engineering, and Humanities. There are tons more to choose from. Online courses can be taken for free. These could be used for professional development opportunities. I especially liked "The Foundations of Happiness at Work". : )

This website is a comprehensive set of resources for students K-12, parents and teachers. The topics include online security, digital relationships and cyberbullying, digital footprint, digital citizenship, student data, copyright and maintaining a healthy balance of digital exposure. I found a scope and sequence on the digital citizenship page that could be helpful in designing a digital citizenship teaching structure for your school.