SAVVY
Creating Educated Digital Citizens
TIPS AND TOOLS FOR ENGAGING IN THE SAVVY ACTIVITIES & ARTIFACTS
The 6 Online Research Skills Your Students Need
Hannah Hudson shares The 6 Online Research Skills Your Students Need. These skills are directed at students and yet are skills ALL learners need. Find a research skill you want to practice while engaging the the various Digital Citizenship 9 challenges.
Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a global nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting an open and accessible Internet that is enriched with free knowledge and creative resources for people around the world to use, share and cultivate.
Small Scale Planning
Planning on turning your vision into reality? And what’s your best way to avoid challenges and problems during this journey? A solid action plan. What steps might you take to reach your goal?
5 Creative Activities to Spark Your Curiosity
In the blog post, 5 Creative Activities to Spark Your Curiosity, Randi Chapman and Erin Blair share plenty of ways to spark curiosity and inspire creativity, both in your house and around your neighborhood.
Which Type of Meditation Is Right for Me?
Meditation is an approach to training the mind, similar to the way that fitness is an approach to training the body. But many meditation techniques exist — so how do you learn how to meditate? Explore six types of meditation to find which one is best for you.
Password Generator
Norton (by Symantec) offers a useful and free password generator. You have the usual options of choosing numbers, letters, symbols to be included or excluded and you can generate 50 passwords with a single click of the mouse using Norton’s password generator tool.
Design Thinking Toolkit
Download Jon Spencer's Design Thinking Toolkit. He provides tons of resources to make the design process fun and simple. There are Sample Design Thinking Projects, complete with videos, slideshows, lesson plans, and a student notebook.
Fundraising Ideas
Funds2Orgs has lots of ideas for schools who are looking for a boost or wants to fund a special upcoming project. Find fundraising events and strategies best suited to engage your students and community as a whole. What excites these important supporters?
JUST LISTEN SAVVY
Social Bubble Bath
We’ve long heard that the ways the web is tailored for each user—how we search, what we’re shown, who we read and follow— reinforces walls between us. Veronica Belmont investigates how social media can create, and can break, our filter bubbles.
Shaking Up Your Echo Chamber. For Democracy.
What does it really take to put more diversity - however you define it - into your news feeds?
We tend to click on things we agree with already. It makes us happy. And social media networks like it that way. Bumming out your customers is a bad business model.