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Not ONLY rights but also responsibility!?

Not ONLY rights but also responsibility!? | 21st Century Learning and Teaching | Scoop.it

Possible instructions for educators on how they can work together with the learners. Knowing the tools for 21st Century Learning is primordial to give quality courses. 

 

One very important knowledge who needs to get taught is “Critical Thinking”; it brings out also new ideas and the courage to become an engager and helps to try to build a better world in both worlds: “Real World” and “Virtual World” (Internet)!

 

When talking about #criticalthinking then automatically we should talk also about #responsibilities!

 

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http://gustmees.wordpress.com/2012/05/28/not-only-rights-but-also-responsibility/

 

 

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Digital Citizenship Poster

Digital Citizenship Poster | 21st Century Learning and Teaching | Scoop.it

Go way beyond Internet safety. Turn students into great digital citizens.


Get all the tools you need with our FREE Digital Literacy and Citizenship Curriculum and Parent Media Education Program. The relevant, ready-to-use instruction helps you guide students to make safe, smart, and ethical decisions in the digital world where they live, study and play.

 

Every day, your students are tested with each post, search, chat, text message, file download, and profile update. Will they connect with like minds or spill TMI to the wrong people?

 

Will they behave creatively or borrow ideas recklessly? Will they do the right thing or take shortcuts?

 

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Turning Students into Good Digital Citizens

Turning Students into Good Digital Citizens | 21st Century Learning and Teaching | Scoop.it
Schools have always been charged with the task of producing good citizens. But how has our definition of a "good citizen" changed over the ages?
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Digital Life: Our Kids' Connected Culture

Digital Life: Our Kids' Connected Culture | 21st Century Learning and Teaching | Scoop.it

We may think of our kids online, mobile, and technological activities as digital life, but to them, it's just life. Their world is as much...

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Digital Citizenship Poster for Elementary Classrooms

Digital Citizenship Poster for Elementary Classrooms | 21st Century Learning and Teaching | Scoop.it

Digital Citizenship Poster for Elementary School Classrooms K-5


In the Digital Literacy and Citizenship Curriculum

 

http://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators/elementary_poster

 

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Creating a Culture of Civility in the Classroom

Creating a Culture of Civility in the Classroom | 21st Century Learning and Teaching | Scoop.it
To state that the instruction of these social expectations is the responsibility of parents and guardians only and that it is the responsibility of educators merely to transmit content knowledge is to ignore the obvious and to abrogate a central ...

 

Just what are the factors that create a culture of civility in the classroom of the public school? Not just an environment that promotes learning but also one that fosters the creation and maintenance of skills of social interaction?

 

===> Skills such as being trustworthy, helpful, courteous, and patience must be taught. <===

 

Many students enter, and continue along in school from year to year, with little or no knowledge of or experience in taking turns in rotation, in requesting and then

 

===> appreciating attention in a cordial manner, in utilizing time and resources efficiently, or in showing respect and consideration, not merely tolerance, to others. <===

 

===> These are all acquired skills central to any successful society, and they must be overtly taught. <===

 


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Teaching kids to be ‘digital citizens’ (not just ‘digital natives’)

Teaching kids to be ‘digital citizens’ (not just ‘digital natives’) | 21st Century Learning and Teaching | Scoop.it
Technology is not value-free. John Merrow explains how to turn kids — who are digital natives — into good digital citizens.

 

Schools today must provide opportunities for young people to create knowledge out of the swirling clouds of information that surround them 24/7. You went to school because that’s where the knowledge was stored. That was yesterday.

 

Think how different today’s world is. Today’s young people need guidance in sifting through the flood of information and turning it into knowledge.

 

They need to be able to formulate good questions — because computers have all the answers.

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