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05/14/2012 | Filed by Kelsey Herron
Common Sense Media and Teaching Channel partner to provide teachers with digital literacy and citizenship lessons pegged to the Common Core State Standards - read more
05/02/2012 | Filed by Sarah Jackson
There’s a lively discussion going on over at Beth Kanter’s blog where our Director of Education Marketing, Emily Esch, has a great post on the necessity of providing digital literacy education to today’s students. - read more
04/30/2012 | Filed by Heather Chaplin
Educators in the state of Maine have been pioneers in using technology in the classroom. But as the state’s Learning Technology Policy Director Jeff Mao found, in order to benefit from the technology, students, parents and teachers need training. Last week Common Sense Media honored Mao for his groundbreaking work in bringing digital literacy and citizenship education to every student in Maine, where teachers are using Common Sense Media’s curricula. We take a look at work going on in classrooms there. - read more
04/26/2012 | Filed by Kelsey Herron
Practical advice from a librarian on Google’s Search Education Team. Plus, Common Sense Media’s classroom-ready lessons on teaching strategic searching. - read more
04/17/2012 | Filed by Kelsey Herron
Digital Passport is a first-of-its-kind web-based tool to help educators teach the basics of digital citizenship and test 3rd through 5th graders’ readiness to engage with online and mobile technologies. Sign up now at beta.digitalpassport.org. - read more
04/10/2012 | Filed by Kelsey Herron
E-rate is complicated, but providing the education doesn’t have to be. Our new E-Rate toolkit has everything teachers and administrators need to educate students about Internet safety, appropriate online behavior, and cyber bullying – as required by the federal funding program. - read more
02/13/2012 | Filed by Sarah Jackson
The new media landscape is changing very quickly. Both the number of new tools and the ways digital technologies are becoming part our lives are growing at an incredible pace. Many of us feel like we can’t keep up. - read more
02/07/2012 | Filed by Audrey Stokes
We’re excited to announce our collaboration with Google Inc. on a new digital literacy portal, ThinkB4U, which launched today in conjunction with Safer Internet Day. ThinkB4U is a “choose-your-own-adventure”-style interactive learning site designed to get everyone -- from parents to students to teachers -- thinking about how to use the internet safely and responsibly. ThinkB4U starts the conversation through fun, interactive videos that follow a family through its daily activities with media use, and lets users decide how each of these scenarios play out. After watching the videos, users can learn more through links to resources from Common Sense Media, ConnectSafely, and the National Consumers League. You will find select K-12 lessons from Common Sense Media as resources for educators on each of the topics, which include ThinkB4U Share, Multi-Task, Buy, Search, Send, and more. - read more
01/19/2012 | Filed by Audrey Stokes
Exciting news! We've partnered with Computer-Using Educators (CUE) to expand our professional development program on digital literacy and citizenship. CUE, a California-based non-profit that provides leadership and support to advance student achievement in the educational technology community, will power Common Sense Media’s training for teachers and educators through CUEtoYOU, a professional development program whose dynamic “lead learners” in K-12 and higher education hold workshops and in-person trainings for educators around issues of digital media technologies. This partnership will allow thousands of teachers around the world to access in-person training and professional development tools for teaching digital literacy and citizenship in their classrooms. - read more
06/28/2011 | Filed by Audrey Stokes
We are pleased to announce that we officially launched our 9-12 Digital Literacy and Citizenship Curriculum!
This program empowers students to think critically and make informed choices about how they live and treat others in today’s digital media world. The curriculum, which was co-created by the team of Dr. Howard Gardner and the GoodPlay Project at Harvard Graduate School of Education, covers topics from internet safety and security to privacy and cyberbullying and uses engaging content to inspire kids to be responsible digital citizens. - read more
04/21/2011 | Filed by Audrey Stokes
Warsaw Middle School is a Grade 5-8 middle school that has approximately 330 students. Donna Chale, the school librarian, and Lori Stevens, the Technology Integrator, have utilized a co-teaching model to assist them in teaching Common Sense Media’s Digital Citizenship Curriculum at their middle school. - read more
04/14/2011 | Filed by Audrey Stokes
Janet Perez, a technology teacher at the Bronx Writing Academy in the Bronx, NY, implemented Common Sense Media’s Digital Citizenship Curriculum in her 8th grade technology class. She describes her enthusiasm for the Digital Citizenship curriculum: “I wanted to cover all these topics and was researching them and then got this curriculum and it had everything!” - read more
04/11/2011 | Filed by Audrey Stokes
Today’s “copy and paste” culture, made possible by digital technology, presents some awesome creative opportunities – hello, mashups! – but also real challenges for our students. How do you teach them to use the creative work of others in a responsible way? - read more
04/04/2011 | Filed by Audrey Stokes
Cyberbullying is at top of mind for lots of schools and parents right now, but it can be a tough subject to tackle with your students and their families. Our discussion guides are designed to give you a place to start. - read more
03/30/2011 | Filed by Audrey Stokes
In today’s classroom, students should be taught that just as they should stay safe in the real world, they should stay safe when they go into the online world (visiting websites). - read more
