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Understanding concepts: What is digital citizenship?

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Also, many families do have mobile phones with online access, so giving learners tools that are mobile-friendly will support equitable access to instruction. Learners can explore these digital citizenship courses online at any time and on any device, including a mobile phone. Key takeaways ✔️ What is digital citizenship?

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Turning ‘Google Maps for Education’ From Metaphor to Reality

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Last updated in 2007, the international standards body has defined a data model for describing, referencing, and sharing competency definitions, primarily in the context of online and distributed learning. Open Registry of K-12 Learning Standards State academic standards help define the learning objectives for U.S.

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MasteryConnect Cuts 30 Percent of Staff, Brings Co-Founder Mick Hewitt Back as CEO

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MasteryConnect aims to help teachers plan lessons and track how students perform against academic standards. The company recently launched a mobile app that allows teachers to snap photos of student’s work incorporate them into MasteryConnect’s platform.

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Game On: Kahoot Snaps Up DragonBox for $18 Million for Its First Acquisition

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The program includes tablets and apps, along with print workbooks, lesson plans and physical manipulatives aligned to national academic standards. Kahoot offers a web-based and mobile app that allows anyone to create and partake in multiple-choice quizzes.

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To Prepare Kids for Their Futures, Incorporate Technology Into Core Curriculum

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Most classrooms have access to at least one computer or mobile device, and 77% of school districts have high speed broadband. Even in districts without 1:1 devices, digital content can be used to provide context for academic standards and spark classroom discussion and inquiry. Additional Resources from eSpark.

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How to Qualify Online Tutoring Services

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Students can now meet with private tutors, who are maybe from another country, through Skype, Google Hangouts, and other mobile communication applications. However, if they are from a different country try to find out if that country’s educational system and academic standard is the same or at par with your own country.

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In 2019, What’s REALLY the Definition of a Teacher?

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They deliver specific chunks of knowledge that are outlined by academic standards and required by school policy in the curriculum, not random tangents of knowledge. Definition #2 – Guiding the Studies. This is not usually something teachers today consider as their purview.