Introducing School-Wide Digital Citizenship Practices with iPads

An elementary school in our district recently got 30 iPads and asked for some advice implementing them with students and teachers. In addition to suggesting some starter apps, I recommended that we have conversations with kids around the appropriate use of these devices. While almost every child has used an iPad, iPod Touch, or iPhone, the exciting learning opportunities these mobile, Internet-connected, media creation devices create also open the door to new challenges. Cyberbullying or inappropriate web publishing happens more through the camera than regular computer use does; the mobility of the device combined with the reality that multiple users are using the device with no personalized, password-protected, network-tracked accounts makes it more challenging to keep track of who is doing what with the device or that the device itself is safe. Rather than tell the students how they should and should not use iPads, I felt compelled to involve the students in the conversation.

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10 Interactive Lessons By Google On Digital Citizenship 10 Interactive Lessons By Google On Digital Citizenship Added by Jeff Dunn on 2012-07-22 YouTube has a firm place in the current classroom. What To Do with App Creations - 4 #iPad Education Apps Export Options #NAI2012 #iste12 In trying to solve the question of how to get products created in "sandbox'd" iPad education apps, colleague Mary Ray and I started a table outlining the ways that various education apps could export data out of them. Below is a preliminary table with a few apps...undoubtedly, more apps could be added. Based on that table, I wondered how hard would it be to automate "turning in" of app creations to places that would be easy for the teacher to look. For me, the goal is to identify common paths teachers and students can take to facilitate exporting of data. For example, since it's clear that most apps will export via email, what are some of the best ways to handle that? There are various ways to get app creations via email.

Is your school’s “digital citizenship” practice a pass or fail? cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by Walmart Corporate This past week, I worked with a small group of educators on becoming a “Networked Educator“, and we had some great conversations about how social media is changing a lot of what we do in schools. Within the group, there were about four teachers from one high school, who came to learn together and asked questions about how they could move their school to the “next level” in how they are sharing and learning with not only each other, but students as well.

Global Community Michael "Mr. Mike" Casey (1978-2010) Michael Casey was a joyful, adventure-filled educator and an active member of the ePals Global Community for 6 years. Mike Casey was the principal and 7-8 grade teacher at Gallon Jug Community School in Gallon Jug, Belize. Classroom Management for iPads Sun 06 May 2012 | tags: classroom-management, edu tech, I recently got a question from a corps member in Colorado who has a new set of iPads to use in her classroom. She wanted to know how to set blocks on certain apps in order to keep scholars on track. Since I've used a class set of iPads since September, and since classroom management is one area in particular where I'm always trying to improve, I'm acutely aware of the issue. Short answer: managing middle schoolers on iPads is not really possible through iPad restrictions.

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