How to teach digital citizenship to kids in Grades 1-12. Topics include digital footprints, digital reputation, safety, online communication, search strategies, copyright, and more.
What is digital resilience? Why is it important? And how can teachers help students to develop digital resiliency? Working in an online environment brings enormous opportunities to students. But the digital world also involves risks. As educators, we want to empower our students to become responsible digital citizens. In addition, they also need a toolkit …
Use Scratch to not only teach coding skills, but also the importance of digital citizenship. Scratch is an online platform that uses blocks of code to build scripts. Children can design animations, games, artwork, and more! By creating an account, they join the Scratch community. When a student has a Scratch account, they become a …
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In the previous post, we listed a set of tips to develop online search strategies. Try this skill building activity with middle school students to apply those tips and raise awareness of ways to find trustworthy information fast. This activity is from TechnoKids technology project TechnoEarth. In this project, students learn how to use Google …
There is LOTS of information on the Internet. When students are conducting searches for specific topics, they can become overloaded with results. Irrelevant sites, limited skimming and scanning skills, advertising, and unreliable data are all factors that can make online searching time-consuming. Competent Internet search strategies can help students to locate high-quality sites quickly to …
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Any search tip that makes online research more efficient is a welcome relief for teachers and students. Researching online with students can be a time consuming and sometimes frustrating task. The amount of information available on the Internet is mind boggling. Too often searches result in a lot of worthless or irrelevant information, or data …
As educators, we strive to promote a climate of respect. Bullying behavior is evident on the playground, but it is more difficult to detect and respond to when it takes place online. In addition, students need to recognize cyberbullying. They need to know when the line is crossed and a joke or teasing has gone …
As teachers, we know that it’s more powerful for students to see things than to read or hear about them. Webcams have been available for decades, but they can still be an effective educational resource to hook students. Live-action webcams can bring distant places to life, students can produce their own video to complete creative …
What do you think about using webcams as part of your curriculum unit? Read each statement. I want my class to learn Internet search skills. My students can’t find any good webcam sites. We have wasted lots of time in the computer lab using webcam sites. If you answered 1, 2, or 3 read on!Here …
Have your students sent and received online greeting cards? Here are some tips to make finding, sending, and receiving e-Cards in the classroom a fun, easy, and worthwhile activity. Try Different Web Browsers: Some e-Cards need the Flash program to show the message. If your web browser will not play Flash animation, try another web …
Why Cite the Source? In any research assignment, students need to learn the essential skill of how to cite the source. They must list where they found the information. Cite sources to: acknowledge the original author allow others to look up additional details avoid plagiarism by giving credit to the work of others show readers …
