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Teaching and Modeling Good Digital Citizenship

Teaching and Modeling Good Digital Citizenship

So-Called "Digital Natives" Not Media Savvy, New Study Shows "In Google we trust." That may very well be the motto of today's young online users, a demographic group often dubbed the "digital natives" due their apparent tech-savvy. Having been born into a world where personal computers were not a revolution, but merely existed alongside air conditioning, microwaves and other appliances, there has been (a perhaps misguided) perception that the young are more digitally in-tune with the ways of the Web than others. That may not be true, as it turns out. "I Googled It" During the study, one of the researchers asked a study participant, "What is this website?" That exchange sums up the overall results from this study: many students trusted in rankings above all else. Only 10% of the students made mention of the site's author or that author's credentials while completing tasks. Google was not the only search engine used in the study, but it was one in which the students put a lot of trust. Wikipedia Not Trusted as Much

S.A.S.S.Y. SAMR: Toolkit for Educators to Transform Instruction TCEA is upon us and clearly SAMR is a hot topic. I had the pleasure to meet the father of the SAMR model (check out recaps of his sessions HERE), Dr. Ruben Puentedura ***, last year at iPad Summit and have spent the past few months digesting, research, and curating SAMR resources for teachers. (Don’t Miss “Groovy Graphics in the iClassroom”!) Met Dr, Ruben with Fellow ADE’s: Michelle Cordy, Lisa Johnson, Dr. In order to provide teachers with an easy to follow framework to digest and apply the model to their own practices and instruction, I decided to create my own acronym, S.A.S.S.Y. based on an adaptation of Dr. S: STUDENTS and StorytellingA: Awesome ASSESSMENT (Teacher-Driven and Student-Driven)S: SOCIAL (Voice and Collaboration)S: SEEK: Research and Visualization (Finding it, Citing it, and Displaying it)Y: YOU: Think about Your Own Thinking… Once the acronym was in place, I built an infographic and then thing linked app-tivities and instructional resources on top of it.

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