10 Tips for Keeping Kids Safe Online
There’s much that can be done to help keep kids safe online. Parents and students can work together on this, and there’s a role for teachers and school administrators as well.
Digital Literacy
On the Frontlines: How Teachers Can Help Defend Against Ransomware
With K–12 schools increasingly being targeted by cyber criminals, there are steps classroom teachers can take to help their schools avoid falling prey to ransomware.
Digital Pipeline: To Home and Back
Parents and caretakers are faced with helping their children navigate the digital world. As educators how do we support them?
The Upside of Social Media
Kids today are technology-savvy, but they need to be guided in asking the right questions about the content they produce and consume.
Leveling Up: Motivating Students Through Gamification
Grammatically, it’s an awful-sounding word: gamification, or as a verb, to “gamify” the classroom. Teachers, however, have found a powerful tool here.
Cybersecurity in the Classroom
Password management can be a daunting classroom challenge for K–12 educators. Here we’ll take a deep dive into some of the more effective solutions for getting kids logged in.
Learning with Podcasts
Podcasts are increasingly popular: one-third of Americans say they’ve listened to one in the past month. This emerging technology could play a key role in the K–12 classroom.
Addressing Online Bullies, Offline
Teachers can’t control what students experience in the digital space. But they can control how they respond when students bring their concerns to them.
Digital Literacy: A Revolution Begins
Digital literacy is one of those phrases that we use without truly knowing its meaning. But before extending this concept into the future, I went to the past: what is the ...
Digital Literacy: What does it mean to you?
For me digital literacy involves reading widely, keeping informed, knowing when and how to be critical and when to embrace new information, new ideas. I