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Teach Digital Citizenship with Book Creator A new ebook to help you get to grips with promoting digital citizenship in your classroom. We're very pleased to announce that have another new book for you in our Using Book Creator in the classroom series. This is actually book no.19 in the series, and it's a really important topic: Digital Citizenship. For this topic we turned to Dr. In this book, Monica looks at how teachers can promote digital citizenship in the classroom and have students demonstrate their learning in Book Creator. She also spotlights some real-life classroom examples from other teachers using Book Creator - thanks to Cynthia Cash, Julie Smith, Sophia Garcia-Smith, Cari Wilson and Karen Lirenman for contributing their ideas. As well as reading this book, you might want to check out Monica's webinar, which we recorded in April 2020, where she explores some of the ideas included in this book. How do you teach digital citizenship?

Create a group & choose group settings - Google Groups Help You can use Google Groups to create an online group for your team, organization, class, or other group to do things like: Email each other Host group discussions Collaborate on projects Organize meetings Find people with similar hobbies or interests You can also change your group's type, name, or description, and choose who can join, post, and view topics. Create a group Sign in to Google Groups. Make your group an email list, forum, or collaborative inbox You can change your group type at any time to match your group’s communication style and workflow. Sign in to Google Groups. Change your group’s name, description & email settings Sign in to Google Groups. Set features included in every email You can set: A subject prefix: This helps identify email as group messages. Set how members display their identity You can allow members to post with a display name or require that each member be linked to their Google profile. Sign in to Google Groups. Set who can post, view topics, and join the group

homepage | csal.gsu.edu Mission Statement CSAL is committed to understanding reading-related characteristics that are critical to helping adult learners reach their reading goals and to developing instructional approaches that are tailored to adult learners’ needs and interests. CSAL General Overview Each year, nearly 3 million Americans enroll in adult literacy programs to improve their basic skills, and some estimates suggest the need is even greater. Adults in these programs want to increase their literacy skills to improve aspects of their work, family, social, and civic lives. Institutions Funding for this Center comes from the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), U.S. Our researchers come from Georgia State University, University of Toronto and The Hospital for Sick Children, The University of Memphis and the Institute for Intelligent Systems, and Brock University. Accessibility Policy

Digital Navigator Model - National Digital Inclusion Alliance Historically, most individuals have had to navigate home access to internet, devices, and technical support on their own, which leaves some unable to fully participate in our society, democracy and economy. Reliance on group access at anchor institutions, such as public libraries was inconvenient prior to COVID is now not a safe option. Digital inclusion has not yet been fully woven into our social support systems and community institutions. NDIA is convening the field weekly to respond to rapidly changing conditions. This page will be updated frequently. Digital Navigators are individuals who address the whole digital inclusion process — home connectivity, devices, and digital skills — with community members through repeated interactions. Navigators can be volunteers or cross-trained staff who already work in social service agencies, libraries, health, and more who offer remote and socially distant in-person guidance.

External Resources | Northstar Digital Literacy This page includes a variety of publicly available learning resources that may support additional practice with Northstar standards. These resources were not created by Northstar. Since we now offer online learning modules and a comprehensive classroom curriculum, this list of external resources is not being actively maintained by our team. We have developed 1:1 Digital Literacy Skills Volunteer Tutor Plans, resources to support volunteer tutors working with learners one-on-one. These resources guide tutors who are accessing external resources. The plans help tutors follow best practice in instruction while targeting specific digital literacy skills learners need to work on. Please note, we now provide comprehensive classroom curricula for each assessment, which have been created by Northstar - these curricula are available only through Northstar testing locations. In the resources below, note that links to a text resource, links to a media resource, and links to an activity resource. Mac OS

Digital Citizenship / Classroom Resources Media Balance Is Important Through this fun song, students will start to think about how to find a happy balance between their online and offline activities! Discussion Questions: What was your favorite part of the song? What was one thing you learned from the song? Why should you take a break from your device when a friend says "hi"? Pause & Think Online From our head down to our toes, and our feet up to our nose, the Digital Citizens inspire students to be safe, responsible, and respectful online. Discussion Questions: Which character do you relate to most when you go online? We the Digital Citizens Students explore the amazing possibilities that come with using technology and learn from the Digital Citizens, who take a pledge to travel safely on the internet. Discussion Questions: What was one thing you learned from the Digital Citizens? Pause, Breathe, Finish Up! Students learn a simple routine for how to deal with being interrupted while using media. My Online Neighborhood My Media Balance

Developing digital literacies Digital literacies are those capabilities which fit an individual for living, learning and working in a digital society. Digital literacy looks beyond functional IT skills to describe a richer set of digital behaviours, practices and identities. What it means to be digitally literate changes over time and across contexts, so digital literacies are essentially a set of academic and professional situated practices supported by diverse and changing technologies. This definition quoted above can be used as a starting point to explore what key digital literacies are in a particular context eg university, college, service, department, subject area or professional environment. Digital literacies encompasses a range of other capabilities represented here in a seven elements model: Digital literacy as a developmental process Defining digital literacy in your context Background About this resource This detailed guide draws on this to provide a set of practical guidance, tools and approaches.

OER STEM Project | LINCS Open Educational Resources to Increase Teaching and Learning of STEM Subjects in Adult Education The Project The Open Educational Resources to Increase Teaching and Learning of STEM Subjects in Adult Education Project, or simply the OER STEM Project, aims to strengthen science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) instructional content and practice in adult education specifically through the use of widely available and free open educational resources (OERs). To meet this goal, the OER STEM Project has engaged adult educators to serve as User Group Members who locate, use, evaluate, and share science and math OERs that are appropriate for adult education classes. The project is also developing online professional development courses for teachers on how to use OERs for math and science instruction in their adult education classrooms. Read the OER STEM Project Fact Sheet to learn about the project goals and activities. Open Educational Resources OER Fact Sheet Testimonials: Contact Information

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