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Digital Citizenship Resources–Lots of Them

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A year-long curriculum that covers everything you need to discuss on internet safety and efficiency, check out K-8 Digital Citizenship Curriculum. A year-long curriculum that covers everything you need to discuss on internet safety and efficiency, check out K-8 Digital Citizenship Curriculum. 46 lessons. 46 projects.

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Full-time online school launches in Georgia using FuelEd (Aventa)

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As a public school leveraging an innovative model, we believe that together with FuelEd the Vidalia Academy can offer more students across Georgia with the best education possible.”. To learn more, watch this video or read this case study about FuelEd’s partnership with Miami-Dade Public Schools.

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How the Internet Neighborhood is Like Any Other Community

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They already visit web-based edutainment sites as early as preschool, use ‘Instagram’ and multi-player XBox games in elementary school, and have made text messaging and Facebook their communication of choice by Middle School. For more, click K-8 Digital Citizenship Curriculum. The best news is, it’s sustainable.

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7 Skills Students Need for Today’s Classwork

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By middle school, they work in online groups through forums, wikis, and Google Apps. Each year, add a few more from this list of nineteen digital citizenship topics including cyberbullying, digital footprint, digital law, fair use and public domain, copyrights, plagiarism, social media, and digital commerce. Internet use.

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Tech Tools for Specials

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When students use existing art rather than draw their own (though Lunapic does offer a blank canvas if students want to start from scratch), take the opportunity to discuss copyrights and plagiarism as it applies to artistic works. These are great for Middle School and High School students, as well as teachers.

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Empower Educators to Teach Writing with PD, Practice and Tools That Extend Their Reach

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West-Smith, a former English teacher, middle-school principal, and district curriculum supervisor, is the Curriculum Content Manager at. based educational software company best known for its plagiarism-detection tools. Patti West-Smith. Turnitin , an Oakland, Calif.-based

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Grammar Check Websites and Apps That Save Your Writing

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One piece it offers that most writing aids don’t is a plagiarism checker to compare the originality of your work to over a billion webpages and published works. Free/fee; Middle School and older. It checks for grammar, spelling, overused words, cliches, repeated words, sentence length, alliteration, diction, and style.

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