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"The Martian stars Matt Damon as a stranded astronaut — and Mars as the red planet of doom. Can our hero survive life on Mars? Can NASA find a way to bring him home? To help you better understand the film — and the scifi novel that came first — we’ve picked 5 TED-Ed Lessons that explore some key Martian life skills." 
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I updated my digital citizenship presentation, based on Craig Badura's digital citizenship kit found here. I used this last year, and found that the students could recall the images and what they represented four or five months later. I am trying to use more images and less text (and less me talking!) in all of my presentations.
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
Feel free to use or share. Please give Mr. Badura credit for the original idea.
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Joe Pinsker, quoting James Heilman, writes: "Many people do not consider other people to be intelligent enough to use Wikipedia with a grain of salt, yet they consider themselves to be intelligent enough to use Wikipedia properly,” Heilman observes. To rely on Wikipedia without any skepticism is to act as though every editor is as relentless, principled, and stubborn as he is.
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
This is a great article for discussion among high school students. PR firms that hire editors to ensure a more favorable Wikipedia article? It shouldn't be shocking these days, but far too many people (not just students) use Wikipedia as their only source of information. I love the example of an Oxford University Press book that evidently contained content cribbed from the Wikipedia article! My 7th graders copying directly from the Wiki page -- complete with the numerical footnotes -- now have textbook writing as a career option.
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Dian Shaffhause writes: "American millennials may be the first generation that grew up with computers and Internet access, but all that time spent glued to a small screen hasn't translated to technology competence, according to a research project that analyzed data from an assessment of adult competencies that tests cognitive and workplace skills."
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
This statistic floored me: "91 percent of millennials consider a lack of computer skills irrelevant to their job prospects..." How are we sending students off to college, let alone into the workforce, with such a lack of understanding of the world?
Pamela Huff's curator insight,
June 18, 2015 4:30 PM
So nice to see that I'm not the only one who's noticed this change, and that we have the data to prove it. How we change this is the Big Question of the day.
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From Global Digital Citizen: "Creating great infographics need not be a chore, no matter if you’re a teacher or a student. Taking information and presenting it in an artful and visually appealing way has never been easier, thanks to Web 2.0 tools. Before you dive in, here are some quick tips:
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
Share with teachers to give a quick overview of the many tools out there to create infographics. Our students have been using Piktochart a lot this year, but it's always good to have a few options available.
Peta White's curator insight,
March 19, 2016 3:41 AM
Share with teachers to give a quick overview of the many tools out there to create infographics. Our students have been using Piktochart a lot this year, but it's always good to have a few options available.
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Terry Heick writes: "The good news is, many of the elements of a progressive learning environment—e.g., digital literacy, connectivism, and play—conveniently, and not coincidentally, work together. And better yet, collectively they can reduce the burden on those managing the learning because they place the learner at the center."
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
I'd add to the definition of digital literacy--we don't just need to teach about the consumption, comprehension and curation of digital media but creation, too. How to remix, cite sources, etc. is a big part of being digitally literate.
Peta White's curator insight,
March 19, 2016 3:41 AM
I'd add to the definition of digital literacy--we don't just need to teach about the consumption, comprehension and curation of digital media but creation, too. How to remix, cite sources, etc. is a big part of being digitally literate.
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Marshall Honoroff writes: "Compromising children's safety online doesn't take a hacker -- just a savvy individual and some information that parents already provide."
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
Share this article along with I Know Where Your Cat Lives to show students how information they share online can reach people they never expected to see it!
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Wikipedia editors are finding more hoaxes on the site every month. How many are there, really? No one actually knows.
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
What a great article to share with students about Wikipedia. Lots of fascinating insight into how Wikipedia works, and why you need to think critically about your sources.
Michael Upshall's curator insight,
August 31, 2015 11:48 AM
Remarkable article, revealing a hoax article that remained uncorrected in Wikipedia for eight years.
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In this section we outline how skills and competencies for digital literacy and media literacy intersect and provide us with essential skills for playing, learning and working as citizens of the digital world.
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
An article well worth your time, but the graph alone would be great to share with teachers!
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Alice Chen writes: "We all know that our digital natives are very at ease with technology. In fact, they’re in love with technology, but does that automatically make them digital proficient?
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
This would be a great visual tool to share with teachers. I love the idea of adding curation, as I feel it's one of the best skills we can share with students. (And not just on Scoop.it!)
Susan Xerri's curator insight,
March 18, 2015 4:28 AM
An article that connects our digital native Gen C students to the curriculum via language that they understand...curation, copyright, character and connectedness...
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Mary Beth Hertz writes: "Responsible digital citizens emerge from schools where students are taught about the rules, risks, and trust involved in the safe, respectful use of social media."
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
This is a great article to share with administrators who are still leery about the use of social media in the classroom!
Melissa Summerford's curator insight,
February 18, 2015 7:27 PM
This is something a lot of grown ups need to learn, not just students!
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Stephen Marche, in this opinion piece about abuse on social media, writes: "The challenge of our moment is that the face has been at the root of justice and ethics for 2,000 years. The right to face an accuser is one of the very first principles of the law, described in the “confrontation clause” of the Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution, but reaching back through English common law to ancient Rome. In Roman courts no man could be sentenced to death without first seeing his accuser."
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
An excellent article to share with high school students. Maybe the obsession with selfies has more to do with some atavistic need to see each other on social media, to compensate for the anonymity of much of what we do or say online. Well worth reading, and re-reading.
Mary Reilley Clark's curator insight,
February 16, 2015 11:55 AM
An excellent article to share with high school students. Maybe the obsession with selfies has more to do with some atavistic need to see each other on social media, to compensate for the anonymity of much of what we do or say online. Well worth reading, and re-reading.
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A satirical Web site's response to an ultra-Orthodox newspaper.
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
I have an article saved in which an ultra-conservative Jewish paper (I believe in New York) edited Hilary Clinton out of a photo. This is a great article for media literacy discussions.
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It's about living mindfully on social media because—let's be real—the internet can be the best. It's this amazing thing that connects us all to one other...
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
Great article to share with students and parents.
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Nick Kristof writes: "So think of armchair activism as a gateway drug. It exposes people to causes and sometimes gets them hooked. And while it doesn’t always solve problems, it tends to build awareness of crises — a necessary but not sufficient step to getting them resolved."
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
It's good to see something positive came out of what I honestly thought was a bit of self-promotion from people who shared this on social media. Pair it with this article and this one to show students how the term slacktivism developed. What a great topic for a debate!
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Alice Chen writes: "Why do students plagiarize? Most of the time it's probably due to two reasons: they don't know how to properly cite their sources or they don't know what to write.
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
Alice gives lots of good advice for teachers here, and takes full advantage of Google tools to assist students in their writing. I'm going to suggest the use of mind maps to get students to brainstorm about their writing. I've watched too many students open a Google Doc, Google their topic in another window, and toggle back and forth between skimming a source and writing. It's the easiest way to plagiarize, intentionally or not. Creating a mind map, sharing their Google doc with their teacher, and getting feedback from other students are all ways to interrupt the "Google, copy and paste" system that runs rampant through research projects I've seen.
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Jessica Contrera writes: " The Internet is the place where nothing goes to die. Those embarrassing photos of your high school dance you marked “private” on Facebook? The drunk Instagram posts? The NSFW snapchats? If you use social media, you’ve probably heard a warning akin to “don’t post anything you wouldn’t want your employer (or future employer) to see.” We agree, and are adding this caveat: Don’t post anything you wouldn’t want hanging in an art gallery."
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
A great discussion starter for middle and high school students.
GwynethJones's curator insight,
May 27, 2015 10:03 PM
Great lesson in Copyright, Creative Commons, & Digital Literacy
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Lisa Johnson writes: "I have spent most of educational technology career supporting secondary students. Projects and Presentations are always a plenty… but what I noticed is typically students have great presentations and poor content or great content and poor presentations."
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
Download Lisa's free PDF and share with students. I always show them the first PowerPoint I made--zooming transitions, different fonts on every slide. It helps them to see we all need to work on our design skills, and I'm still working hard!
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In C. M. Rubin's interview, Howard Rheingold states: "When I decided to write a book about the essential literacies necessary today—with the aim of using the book as a text for a Stanford course—I decided that the essential literacies are attention, crap detection, participation, collaboration, and network awareness."
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
This would be a great article for students to tackle, then choose topics to research. I think it's essential that my middle school students understand who is behind what they read online, and that most of the sites they use are there not to help them share selfies, but to make money. I harp on the attention issue, because that's my internet Achille's heel. I read this article, got distracted by an email, clicked another link, looked for C.M. Rubin's Twitter name, which meant I stopped to read new tweets...I tell the students I live as an example of what not to do when trying to work online!
Ra's curator insight,
May 20, 2015 12:38 AM
Great list of what schools do need to be educating students in. A more mindful and kinder approach to online living than constant selfies. 
Leboldus Library's curator insight,
May 20, 2015 11:08 AM
Based on Rheingold's criteria for digital literacy, I would suggest that Canada is also on the "brink of disaster." These are crucial skills that we ignore at our peril. #rcsdils #saskedchat
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Based on lessons from Common Sense Education's K-12 Digital Literacy and Citizenship Curriculum, Digital Compass addresses cyberbullying, privacy and security, creative credit and copyright, information literacy, Internet safety, digital footprint...
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
I had students look at this today. Universal agreement that the choice of characters was too childish, but the situations posed were realistic.
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Saga Briggs writes: "Teaching digital literacy is about more than just integrating technology into lesson plans; it’s about using technology to understand and enhance modern communication, to locate oneself in digital space, to manage knowledge and experience in the Age of Information. Digital literacy isn’t about knowing computers inside and out; it’s about using technology to change the way you think. If critical thinking skills haven’t yet become a part of your students’ digital citizenship, it’s time to rethink your teaching strategy."
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
Some great points to share with teachers. This article hits all the 4Cs of the AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner.
Peta White's curator insight,
March 19, 2016 3:42 AM
Some great points to share with teachers. This article hits all the 4Cs of the AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner.
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The Internet offers an abundance of online citation tools, from the extremely easy to use, to ones that require more research on the part of the user.
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
Just before spring break, I worked with 7th grade history teachers and students on a Renaissance research project. I was so disappointed at some of the papers I saw. I'll be spending a lot more time working with students on citations and plagiarism.
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Today’s students may be skilled at texting and social media, but many are unable to perform online research and distinguish accurate information on the web, according to a new study."
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
Wait, the results are "surprising, considering that the students are, after all, digital natives." ?? When are we going to retire this cliche? Being able to evaluate multiple sources of information or to research beyond Google are not innate skills. We fail students EVERY TIME we call them digital natives. It's lazy, and it annoys me. They also live surrounded by print, but we don't call them reading natives. OK, climbing off the soapbox, because at the very end of this article, school librarians are mentioned as being potential leaders in instruction. At least we agree on something! This is what most of my colleagues and I do every day in the library. Digital literacy education should be embedded in every lesson we teach, as part of the critical thinking skills we know students need.
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Anna Blow writes: " When we comment on news stories, most of us hope to say something about the topic at hand — even (or maybe especially) if it’s that the author got it all wrong. But what do the comments we leave say about us — about our beliefs, our biases and how we act when the ordinary rules don’t apply? And how do our comments affect the beliefs of others?
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
This quote, referring to a study on comments a PSA about vaccines, made me gasp: "...many readers, especially those who are less Internet-savvy, assume commenters “know something about the subject, because otherwise they wouldn’t be commenting on it.” The mere act of commenting, then, can confer an unearned aura of credibility." Another great opinion piece from The New York Times that would work well in middle or high school digital/media literacy discussions.
Mary Reilley Clark's curator insight,
February 16, 2015 12:09 PM
This quote, referring to a study on comments a PSA about vaccines, made me gasp: "...many readers, especially those who are less Internet-savvy, assume commenters “know something about the subject, because otherwise they wouldn’t be commenting on it.” The mere act of commenting, then, can confer an unearned aura of credibility." Another great opinion piece from The New York Times that would work well in middle or high school digital/media literacy discussions.
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Explosive confrontations are nothing new for Israel and Lebanon, but the latest spat between the longtime foes is perhaps the first to have been caused by an alleged photo-bomb.
Mary Reilley Clark's curator insight,
January 19, 2015 4:52 PM
This would be a good opportunity to have students read and compare articles about this incident from international news sites. It's also a great digital citizenship discussion opener. Should you check with people before you post their photos online? Would your selfies cause drama? |
I know a lot of my students went to see the movie this weekend. We just got back, and I thought the movie was great! It will be fun to share these videos during the week with classes.