You may have heard the term “Digital Citizenship” get thrown around a lot lately or maybe even noticed blog posts, newspaper articles and even emails from our district. It’s a topic discussed often and as educators we need to understand why it’s so important to teach our students how to be a good citizen online while simultaneously teaching them the skills to be a good citizen in the classroom. All students even as young as Kindergarten should learn how to use technology appropriately. Digital Citizenship is more than just a teaching tool, it’s a way to prepare technology users and guide them to use the tools safely and properly.
Check out this blog for more information on digital citizenship and why kids need to be educated
Common Sense Media is a great site for parents and educators. Common Sense Media is free to join and offers Digital Literacy and Citizenship Curriculum for grades K-12. The scope and sequence documents offer objectives, lesson plans, activities, videos and more!
Looking for a new way to organize your lessons? Or a new way to execute a lesson? Try Edcanvas, a tool that lets you add videos, images, website snapshots and files to create a canvas for students to access. Teachers can also create virtual classes so that students could create their own canvas. This a great tool to create scavenger hunts and webquests!
Miss Landara’s 2nd grade class at Wilson School mapped Flat Stanley’s adventures. Each student sent out a paper decorated Flat Stanley to a friend or family member. Journals, posters and pictures of each adventure were showcased in the hallway for all at Wilson School to see. If you weren’t able to see the display visit Miss Landara’s Map to see the many locations around the world visited!
One of my favorite blogs to read is Tony Vincent’s Learning in Hand. Learning in Hand is a resource for educational technology. From netbooks and web applications to iPods, iPads, and podcasting, Tony has put together practical information for educators. Follow him on twitter too!
Read Tony’s post about building positive behavior using ClassDojo
A website where teachers are willing to share their great ideas for free! All teachers K-12 can benefit, and the posts are actually only labeled according to the relevant grade levels, which makes it super easy to search.
Edcanvas is a site where you can easily create online lessons adding urls of a site or videos from Youtube, text and image with web search, upload your own documents from your desktop or from your dropbox account. It’s definitely something fun you can play around with!
LiveBinders is a virtual binder, a place to store all weblinks, slideshows and URL’s in one place. Visit our TGIF binder to see how it works. In our binder you can find information on Google tips for the classroom. Browse around the site and save other binders to your shelf!
