The Webonauts Internet Academy game teaches kids about key issues of web safety and good citizenship.
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On this page, you'll find Search Literacy lessons and A Google A Day classroom challenges. Our search literacy lessons help you meet the new Common Core State Standards and are broken down based on level of expertise in search: Beginner, Intermediate, or Advanced.
I have identified thirteen literacies that our students need to become well-rounded 21st-century citizens. These literacies are not taught as separate literacies but are taught across the content areas. If you find a link that is not working, please let me know the title and I will fix it! Thank you!
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Posted by Shelly Terrell on Sunday, December 29th 2013 Included in the Digital Tips Advent Calendar and part of the Effective Technology Integration category "We all need someone who inspires us to do better than we know how." ~ Anonymous Technology has changed the way we interact with the world and each other.
Posted by Shelly Terrell on Friday, December 27th 2013 A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. ~ Robert S McNamara Included in the Digital Tips Advent Calendar and part of the Effective Technology Integration category Our learners live in a connected world where technology impacts their lives daily.
Posted by Shelly Terrell on Monday, December 23rd 2013 Included in the Digital Tips Advent Calendar and part of the Effective Technology Integration category "Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination ... Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent.
"Every man should have a built-in automatic crap detector operating inside him." Ernest Hemingway, 1954 The answer to almost any question is available within seconds, courtesy of the invention that has altered how we discover knowledge - the search engine. Materializing answers from the air turns out to be the easy part - the part a machine can do.
At last! 2 years, 9 months! 2 years of work, and 9 months after submitting the manuscript, my advance copy of Digital Literacies has arrived. Written with Gavin Dudeney and Mark Pegrum, it's one of a new series of methodology books from Pearson Education called 'Research and Resources', combining research with practical classroom ideas.
Your cell phone, IM, and social networks are all a digital extension of who you are. When someone you're with pressures you or disrespects you in those place...
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Watch Common Sense Media's Get Cybersmart with Phineas and Ferb advice video to help you make informed decisions.
Literacy is the ability to make sense of something, often generalized as the ability to read and write. In many ways, reading is reading, media is media, but in the same way a play places unique comprehension demands on a reader compared to a poem or a letter, so do digital media compared to classic media forms. In the 21st century, new literacies are emerging and digital media forms allow communication to be more nuanced than ever before.
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Shelly Sanchez Terrell is the author of TeacherRebootCamp.com, Learning to Go, and The 30 Goals Challenge for Teachers. She has supported teachers and learners in 100+ countries F2F and virtually t...
