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Teaching digital citizenship across the whole curriculum

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According to Common Sense Media’s study “ Zero to Eight: Children’s Media Use in America ,” the percentage of children ages eight and under who’ve used a mobile device nearly doubled from 2011 to 2013, from 38 percent to 72 percent. What’s more, about two in five children under the age of two have used a mobile device.

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5 Favorite Activities to End the School Year

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When students finish, they can move on to the next activity. Here’s how to use this for end-of-year activities: Devote the last month or two of school to student-driven reviews of age-appropriate books. Push this out to a summer activity where students review the books they read over the summer.

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Making the College Admissions Process Work for All Students

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School administrators and teachers can begin this early development through a competency-based framework like the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning ( CASEL ), which aims to help students build strong relationships with their counselors and peers that allow them to generate an active interest in learning.

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Need to Go on a ‘Tech Diet’? Current Ways to Fight Your Device Addiction

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She calls technology the biggest experiment on a developing child’s brain without an ethical review board. It would be helpful for parents to recognize that devices and apps have been designed for children to become addicted to them, and protect them from that at a young age, she says.

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More Books You’ll Want to Read This Summer

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It takes into account recent changes such as connectivity, open-source technology, mobile devices, and personalization of learning to dramatically shift how schools have been run for over a century. At the end of each chapter are training activities to help the reader reflect on and apply the ideas to their own students.

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Books You’ll Want to Read This Summer

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It takes into account recent changes such as connectivity, open-source technology, mobile devices, and personalization of learning to dramatically shift how schools have been run for over a century. At the end of each chapter are training activities to help the reader reflect on and apply the ideas to their own students.

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10 Books You’ll Want to Read This Summer

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It takes into account recent changes such as connectivity, open-source technology, mobile devices, and personalization of learning to dramatically shift how schools have been run for over a century. At the end of each chapter are training activities to help the reader reflect on and apply the ideas to their own students.

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