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Elementary Digital Citizenship Hotlist

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This annotated list is intended to provide teachers links to resources that can be used to teach digital citizenship and other technology related concepts and skills. The resources listed are considered free to use but are not necessarily openly licensed materials unless otherwise noted. Feel free to remix this document to delete any links that are not useful to you and add any resources you find worthwhile.

Material Type: Lesson, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Authors: MSDE Admin, andrew robertson

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10th Grade ELA: Information Fluency

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In this unit, students will understand where “fake news” comes from, why it exists and how they can think like fact checkers to become fluent consumers, evaluators, and creators of information. They will apply this knowledge by selecting a controversial topic to evaluate, synthesize, and analyze all aspects before sharing with a local audience.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Homework/Assignment, Lesson, Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy, Unit of Study

Authors: Crystal Hurt, Beth Kabes

Digital Citizenship: Misinformation & Data Commodification in the Twenty-First Century

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Misinformation & Data Commodification in the Twenty-First Century Short Description: An instructional text that seeks to untangle the social complexities and ethical dilemmas of online data and information. DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP will educate readers on the economics of the Internet and the means by which political bad actors exploit its platforms to pervert the public discourse. Word Count: 15176 ISBN: 978-1-55195-464-6 (Note: This resource's metadata has been created automatically by reformatting and/or combining the information that the author initially provided as part of a bulk import process.)

Material Type: Textbook

Authors: Adrian Castillo, Sarah Gibbs, Shawn Graham

Drone technology course

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It is a multilingual Learning Management System developed with the aim to equip learners with knowledge, abilities and skills that allow them to enter the entrepreneurial world, via Industry 4.0 and Drone Technology, in order to yield the related opportunities. It includes a course, trainer guidelines, evaluation tools and e-learning platform. The course includes 12 chapters on topics relevant to Industry 4.0 and Drone Technology and it's available in 5 languages (EN, RO, PL, GR, IT), free and easily accessible. eduDrone LMS link: https://edudrone-project.eu/lms/

Material Type: Full Course

Authors: Anastasia Oikonomoula, Catalin Gheorghe Amza, Doru Cantemir, Francesco Tarantino, Giulia Salucci, Ioana Cantemir, Mike Triantafillou, Paulina Spanu, Paweł Poterucha

Chrome Extensions for Struggling Students and Special Needs

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Technology can be a powerful tool to assist students with special needs or any sort of learning challenge. In particular the Chrome web browser allows users to install a wide variety of web extensions that provide tools that can help all learners, regardless of ability level. In this blog post we will take a look at over 30 Chrome web extensions that can assist students in five main categories: Text to Speech Readability Reading Comprehension Focus Navigation Some of the tools fit into more than one topic, but each is only listed once. Certainly this list does not cover all of the useful web extensions available for struggling learners, but it is a great place to begin. In addition to the list of extension, I have also linked in the video from a webinar I did a while back on "Google Tools for Special Needs".

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Eric Curts

Peralta Online Equity Rubric for Distance Education

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The Peralta CC District developed an Equity Rubric instrument designed to help online instructors make the learning experience more equitable for all students. The rubric’s criteria is roughly aligned with the CVC-OEI Course Design Rubric. It includes strategies to increase students’ access to technology and different types of support (both academic and non-academic); and make explicit the instructor’s commitment to inclusion by addressing some design principles through an equity lens.

Material Type: Assessment

Author: Peralta Community College Office of Distance Education