This is where one tends to become subjective, even emotional. Quite simply, you have to see the smile on the face of a 7th grader who holds a computer that is all theirs! The combination School2Home netbook endowment and Riverside Unified SD's digital textbook initiative is the "Perfect Storm" of merging the technology that a child uses for communication, social networking, and entertainment and turning that same tool into the primary source of learning.
Ironically, are teachers, as digital immigrants, teaching the budding digital natives?
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Example:
Sport Report for PE Students
Ironically, are teachers, as digital immigrants, teaching the budding digital natives?
TRULY equalizing opportunity: give every kid a netbook!
Standards for the 21st Century Learner
DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP
Tech Time Curriculum: by Deb Stanley
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Tech Time Curriculum: by Deb Stanley
- Safety Tips for children
- Cybersafety for Kids: A Parents' Guide (PDF brochure)
- Digizen provides "Cyberbullying: Supporting a School Staff" (PDF)
- NSTeens and Cybersafety: multiple videos, tutorials, and games
- K-12 Digital Citizenship lessons, teamed with the Library Teacher.
- NetSmartz Workshop: great resources on cybersafety
Lessons: Task Responses
Google docs: How do they work?
Google docs tutorials, not visible if YouTube is blocked.
Example:
Sport Report for PE Students