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Fake News Lesson Plan Ideas with Jennifer CareyToday Jennifer Carey @TeacherJenCarey gives us ways to teach information literacy. She gives us tips for developing savvy in our students. She also talks about the “term” fake news and if we should be using it at all. Listen Now Listen to the show on iTunes or Stitcher Stream by clicking here. Below is a transcript modified for […]

Use images to kick off digital citizenship conversationsOne way to ease fear and kick off conversations about digital citizenship in the classroom is to allow students to reflect and share about their experiences in digital communities with broader strokes rather than with personal experiences.

Helping Students Spot BS and Decipher ‘Fake’ News - EdSurge News“Fake news” has been thrust into the national spotlight since the 2016 U.S. Presidential election. The term has since become widely used, mocked and, ...

Searching for the Ability to Think: Training our Kids to Go Past GoogleNext week, my tenth graders will have to invent a new way to access the Internet. It doesn’t have to work, mind you, but it does have to include plausible technology. We’ve been doing this project eight years now. The first time I saw the “tile” product that we now use to locate keys and […]

10 MORE digital bell-ringer activities to kickstart class (Part 2)We have a golden window of time at the beginning of any class. For these first five or ten minutes of class (OK, probably more the five than the ten), we have our students’ most attention. It’s the…

Google Basics for Kids – Collaborating in Docs and Slides Series – Part 3 “Working Together”Step #3- Working Together So far in this Teaching Kids to Collaborate Series, we have discussed the first two steps: Set-Up Rules- Most importantly, don’t erase others’ work and use the…

Email Etiquette Reminders for Students The start of the new school year is a great time to review email etiquette with students. Doing some basic things like adding a proper ope...

Play Ball: Teaching Lessons Through Baseball The World Series begins this week between the Houston Astros and LA Dodgers . This is an exciting time for all baseball fans and there ar...

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Technology standards for educatorsThis past June, the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) unveiled new standards for educators that can serve as a roadmap to integrate technology in your classroom.

An Academic Use for Social MediaYou can leverage micro-writing—tweets, Instagram posts, and the like—to help students improve their communication and writing skills.

Typing Games to Improve Keyboarding Skills There seems to be no shortage of typing games that help students develop their keyboarding skills. This collection of games are free, fun, a...

Teaching Kids To Edit Images in Google Docs & SlidesTeaching Kids to “Edit” their images can be so much fun! Students love to have the opportunity to be creative and add their own personal touch to the images in their digital work. Espec…

Lesson Plans for SMART Goal Setting Storyboard That is a great tool that can be used for creating cartoons, flowcharts, timelines, and wireframes in addition to typical stor...

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