Educational Terms

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Edutopia Learning Resource

Edutopia is a website that discusses evidence-based learning strategies which are shared to help improve education.  This site offers Free Classroom Guides and Educational Downloads for Parents and Educators.

These are PDF documents that the website offers:

• How to Thank a Teacher
• Mobile Devices for Learning: What You Need to Know
• Six Tips for Brain-Based Learning
• Ten Tips for Classroom Management
• Top Ten Tips for Teaching with New Media
• Summer Rejuvenation Guide
• Top Ten Tips for Assessing Project-Based learning
• Home-to-School Resource Guide
• Think Green Guide

A Parent's Guide to 21st-Century Learning

The website  “Edutopia” has many free guides and downloads for educators and parents. One such guide is A Parent’s Guide to 21^st-Century Learning”. It is a guide to help parents understand what collaboration, creativity, communication and critical thinking would look like in the classroom.

Register for a free account in order to access the PDF download.
http://www.edutopia.org/parent-21st-century-learning-resource-guide

Digital Citizenship

http://www.connectsafely.org/

Digital citizenship, briefly from Anne Collier

Blogging

The Brain of a Blogger

infographic by Infolinks.

The Digital Classroom

Online Universities.com Blog has the following Infograph that I found to be interesting.

Know The Net ...... powered by nominet

Know The Net is an information site that will guide you on surfing the net safely.  Below is an inforgraph on 10 Digital Citizenship Tips From Your Mother.  http://www.knowthenet.org.uk/

Knowthenet presents Manners Matter the online Netiquette Do's and Don'ts infographic.

Youth Privacy.......... Social Smarts

Like Media Smarts, Youth Privacy is a site from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada where students can learn to become better informed about safety and proper use of Social Media and the Internet. There are lessons and tools to help students with privacy when using digital technologies.
http://www.priv.gc.ca/youth-jeunes/index_e.asp

My Privacy My Choice My Life

The purpose of this site is to help children learn how technology affects their private life.  There are lesson ideas and suggestions. You can download the PDF versions and use the lessons and worksheets. 

This site helps everyone understand Social Networking Sites.  There is a Graphic Novel, Social Smarts: Privacy, The Internet and You,  which I was able to download into each student's computer where they read it and then in groups answered questions and critically analyzed the scenarios that were given to them.  I was able to incorporate this lesson with the lessons and interactive games from the website I mentioned earlier, Media Smarts.

http://www.youthprivacy.ca/en/teachers.html