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Elizabeth E Charles's insight:
Good starting point for resources on digital literacy.
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The founder of Chicago's pioneering Digital Youth Network (DYN) describes how the organization empowers young people with critical digital literacy skills that make them academically and professionally competitive. For more resources, visit: http://www.edutopia.org/nichole-pinka...
Click headline to watch video full screen-- Via Chuck Sherwood, Former Senior Associate, TeleDimensions, Inc
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Blooms Taxonomy is one of the popular topics here in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning. I have amassed a treasure trove of great resources on everything that is related to this taxonomy from web tools to mobile apps.
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A new report showcases some of the most important and difficult challenges of using education technology in today's classrooms.
The Challenges Faculty training still does not acknowledge the fact that digital media literacy continues its rise in importance as a key skill in every discipline and profession.
Teachers needs to be learning how to use the technology themselves, too. Where formal training lacks, professional development needs to step in, and does in many cases. But integrating the how-to of technology with the how-to of teaching needs to happen.
Read more in the article, a MUST!
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March 10, 2013 1:04 PM
The Challenges Faculty training still does not acknowledge the fact that digital media literacy continues its rise in importance as a key skill in every discipline and profession.
Teachers needs to be learning how to use the technology themselves, too. Where formal training lacks, professional development needs to step in, and does in many cases. But integrating the how-to of technology with the how-to of teaching needs to happen.
Read more in the article, a MUST!
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The presentations and the session recording from the JISC webinar Rising to the Digital Literacy Challenge, held on 28 February 2013, are online.
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Flying cars, living on Mars? That's all great but what about next year? What are the biggest education technology trends we should expect in 2013? |
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Who owns our data? Our School. Our school encourages in our daily work and curricula a continuous emphasis on digital citizenship and digital safety; we practice citizenship in our classrooms, virtual and in reality.
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Digital literacy is the topic that made the ETMOOC learning space so irresistible to me… I think as educators we spout off about wanting our students to be digitally literate, but not many of... Via John Shank 
Helena Gordon's curator insight,
March 5, 2013 5:55 PM
Pierre Levy sobre Letramento Digital. É uma condição que todo professor precisa ter para estar atualizado. 
Sally Tilley's curator insight,
March 16, 2013 5:56 PM
An interesting summary of the challenges implementing digital literacy imposes on curriulum planning and teachers
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There are dozens of great brainstorming and organizing tools available on the web to help students prepare for writing assignments and develop their Via Tom D'Amico (@TDOttawa) 
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November 6, 2013 1:00 PM
Great for brainstorm and organizing - cause & effect, main ideas, comparisons, sequences of events, ect...
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Google continues to provide a wealth of useful easy-to-use tools that can be used well in the classroom. Some of these are newer and some have been around for a while. All of these tools, as well as additional tools can be found at Google Options.
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30 Incredible Ways Technology Will Change Education By 2028 (30 Incredible Ways Technology Will Change Education By 2028 http://t.co/zpMOmard93 via @zite)...
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One to return to repeatedly
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Just in time to celebrate Open Education Week, here comes a new initiative, the School of Open, a learning environment focused on increasing our understanding of “openness” and the benefits it brings to creativity and education in the digital age.
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One stop shop for all things 'open'. |
In today’s 21st century classrooms, digital tools should coexist alongside more traditional tools. Online tools, compared to their more traditional counterparts, provide a broader array of information about words and word meanings. In addition, some tools allow teachers to easily customize words so that students can practice, review, and play games with content or unit-specific words. Digital tools allows students to:
Some interesting resources - Well done