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.
Are you teaching a blogging unit? Commenting is a new social skill. Often people make mistakes because they do not know the rules or etiquette for how to communicate. Have your students be good digital citizens. Here is some advice on “how to comment” that you can pass onto students:
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Do you need materials to create a bulletin board in your computer lab or classroom about digital citizenship? To help your students take responsibility for their actions and encourage them to think before they act, TechnoKids created a set of digital footprints. Each print has the name of a use of technology, such as blog,
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In Microsoft Word 2010 or 2007, your students should be able to access a dictionary or the Bing search engine, when they click the Research command on the Review tab. If this feature is not working follow these ten steps to manually add Research Options in Microsoft Word. UPDATE 8/22/2022: TechnoKids continues to develop technology
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Teachers, you should include basic contact information in every email message you send. The email recipient should know your full name, school name, school address, and school phone number. I know that the majority of email messages you send are likely to people that already possess this information. However, when booking school trips or communicating
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We do a daily backup of information for staff and students using an offsite backup utility. It was generously donated to us with a 250GB storage limit. However, I just received a backup error to say that we are over our limit! I started to look through the directory to locate the source of the
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What do students think about learning Internet Skills? You might recall that before the Grade ¾ class began the technology project TechnoJourney, they thought they knew EVERYTHING about the Internet. Now upon the completion of the project, it was time to find out what they thought of the experience. Did they learn something new? Will
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I recently conducted an interview with the classroom teacher upon the completion of teaching TechnoJourney to learn more about her thoughts and ideas about the experience. UPDATE: TechnoJourney was replaced with TechnoInternet. The activities are similar. Your students just spent the past few weeks completing activities from the technology project TechnoJourney. What was your overall
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Learning should be celebrated! I believe that at the end of each unit, time should be allocated to reflect upon the learning experience. This gives students the opportunity to acknowledge their achievements and recognize the newfound skills they have acquired. This can be a challenge when a unit of study does not contain a finished
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Take ten minutes at the beginning of class to transform your students into Internet Experts! In this blog article, I outline six options that make it easy for your students to find the perfect picture for their school assignment. Read on to learn more! I am teaching the TechnoKids technology project, TechnoJourney. I am on
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Many elementary students trust everything they read on the Internet. They believe that if it is written on a web page, then it must be true. It is essential that teachers provide their students with criteria they can use to determine if the information they are using for a research project is from a reliable
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