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Today's students must be prepared to thrive in a constantly evolving technological landscape. Zip codes and borders no longer determine the learning opportunities, skills and careers that students can access. The ISTE Standards for Students are designed to empower student voice and ensure that learning is a student-driven process of exploration, creativity and discovery no matter where they or their teachers are in the thoughtful integration of ed tech.

"High school students are challenged to complete original and independent research that is characteristic of college-level courses.  BCPS students generate a research question, conduct a literature review, collaborate with content-area experts, develop an hypothesis, collect and analyze data, and present original research at an annual Student Independent Research Symposium."

Findings are reported from student focus groups and a large-scale survey about how and why students (enrolled at six different U.S. colleges) use Wikipedia during the course-related research process. A majority of respondents frequently used Wikipedia for

Create acct. in Edmodo to see this OER lesson: This presentation is a basic introduction to visual notetaking or sketchnoting for students. During the presentation, students will watch an overview video, look at examples, and discuss the elements of sketchnoting. The presentation concludes with two practice exercises where students work on creating their first sketchnotes. Sketchnoting is a notetaking technique that students can utilize throughout the year and for different purposes in the classroom. Students can use sketchnotes to take notes on literary periods, histories of famous authors, visually represent the plot and analysis of a piece of literature or engage in listening to group presentations. This presentation is a Google Presentation, so in order to utilize it, you will need to make a copy by clicking on file<make a copy. Once you have your copy, you can edit or modify the presentation to fit your class.

IT Trends An Interview with the Center for Democracy & Technology's Michelle De Mooy To help school administrators, families, technology companies and state legislators sort through the patchwork quilt of state legislation on student privacy, the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT), an advocacy group, has developed a state-by-state survey of student privacy laws in partnership with the law firm BakerHostetler.

As a set of life skills, project methods are learned starting at a very young age and continue throughout one's life. As a progression of learning skills, students begin applying project approaches to their learning in primary grades and continue through adulthood as lifelong learners. And as a series of developing career skills, students begin learning the professional aspects of project management in secondary school and continue their learning throughout their careers, with some choosing professional project management as a profession.

This is a great resource if you are looking to add something new to your digital citizenship lessons/curriculum. The really great aspect of this is that it also has a video game component which students absolutely love (Interland)! This provides background and lessons which an lead to students playing Interland - a fun way to discuss a serious topic.

It's a number that tends to jumps out at you: one in every five students has dyslexia. That means there's bound to be at least one student with some sort of reading difficulty in pretty much every classroom. But teachers may not know how to help these students.

This looks like a great program to use with students that covers several standard areas.

Geared for 7-12th grade students. Paid subscription.

This could be used in conjunction with the Hour of Code implemented with students in December.

This could be used in conjunction with the Hour of Code implemented with students in December.

Today's students need 21st century skills to succeed in our increasingly digital world. This page shows data on what skills students need to have mastered and how they have performed in the past.

By Laura Gardner on Last week, a new study from Stanford University revealed that many students are inept at discerning fact from opinion when reading articles online. The report, combined with the spike in fake and misleading news during the 2016 election, has school librarians, including me, rethinking how we teach evaluation of online sources to our students.