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Here are the sixteen transformative tools, activities, and/or knowledgebasesdigitally-literate students should be comfortable using: annotation tool. digitalcitizenship. digital class calendar. digital databases. digital devices–such as laptops, iPads , Chromebooks , or desktops, for daily use.
Constructivism 1) encourages students to use active techniques (such as experimentation and problem solving) to build their knowledgebase and then reflect on and/or talk about how that is changing; and 2) encourages teachers to guide activities that address and/or build on student conceptions. Guiding Principles of Constructivism.
Students can view a collection to build their knowledgebase and then–if they’d like–select one of the several Missions as the project they will complete for Genius Hour. Tract has too-many-to-count explanatory and how-to videos that students can browse, enjoy, and then select. Research and complete the project.
Having them take over the lesson or participate in a Q&A with the students is one way to expose learners to different perspectives and expand their knowledgebase. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 DigitalCitizenship curriculum.
National Science Teaching Association The National Science Teaching Association (NSTA) offers an extensive knowledgebase for science educators. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 DigitalCitizenship curriculum.
Enter the knowledge-based economy – a trending topic across sectors more or less from 2003 onward. As new challenges such as cognitive dissonance, fake news, digital addiction, cyberbullying and online predation emerged – students needed a more substantial arsenal of skills to navigate the digital terrain.
Common Sense Media’s award-winning Digital Passport is the gold-standard in teaching digitalcitizenship to grades 3-5 (or Middle School). This free-to-schools online program mixes videos, games, quizzes, and the challenge of earning badges to teach students the concepts behind digitalcitizenship : Communication.
If they don’t understand a term, expect them to use readily-available digital vocabulary tools (right-click tools, a resident dictionary program, and/or a dictionary browser app or extension like the Google Dictionary Chrome extension) during literacy classes to decode unknown words.
Whether the student’s skill level is novice or master, it doesn’t matter because soon — by fifth grade probably — handwriting is replaced by digital writing. These skills are part of their knowledgebase for word processing. They type their name, a word, maybe even a sentence.
Students are expected to attempt a solution using tools at their disposal (such as prior knowledge, classmates, and classroom resources) before asking for help. Digitalcitizenship is taught, modeled and enforced in every lesson, every day, every class. Who doesn’t have problems every day that must be solved?
Now, exemplary teachers focus on blending learning into the student’s life knowledgebase with the goal of building happy, productive adults. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-8 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 DigitalCitizenship curriculum.
That knowledgebase they created, the one they expect to take care of them throughout their career as a worker, adult, and human being, doesn’t — unless what they learned was how to learn. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 25 years.
Having people who understand how you think, have your back in emergencies, and serve as a virtual knowledgebase will help you to handle difficult colleagues, adapt to challenging principals, address tricky parents, and differentiate for varied student needs. Here’s why: It helps you grow professionally.
It has become such a part of what we do and who we are that it become to be defined as a sort of “digital” citizenship. So what describes a digital citizen? In short: living within a digital world. Views of technology and its place in society can be seen in movies, television, and cultural references.
[link] Creative Commons license: [link] The Digital Classroom Starter Kit from Common Sense Education provides digitalcitizenship activities and lessons as part of their classroom technology use ideas. Without a knowledge-base in the topic, it may be hard for them to determine incorrect information.
After all, many of us would agree that the students are the ones who are usually the most knowledgeable, up-to-date resources for what is the latest and greatest with technology, so why not tap into their large knowledgebase and cultivate their leadership potential? Here’s how it happened.
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