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How to Create Videos with Powtoon
Powtoon is an easy-to-use, animated video-creation tool. Learn how your students can create polished-looking videos in no time. Learn more about Powtoon and get ideas for lesson plans. Get tips on great edtech tools and teaching...
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How to Apply the SAMR Model with Ruben Puentedura
Watch Dr. Ruben Puentedura, creator of the SAMR Model, explain how teachers can apply the model's concepts to reflect on how they're using educational technology in their teaching. Go here for a version of the video without music:...
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Social Media for Good: An Interview with Wear Orange Co-Founder
Nza-Ari Khepra speaks with Common Sense about Wear Orange and the ways social media can be a catalyst for positive social change.
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Introducing 1-to-1 Essentials
You've made the decision to go 1:1. Now what? Without a comprehensive strategy, your school will risk wasting precious time and resources. That's where Common Sense Media's new 1-to-1 Essentials Program comes in. This free, interactive,...
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Kids and Tech: The New Landscape
What is the role that media and technology play in children's development? If used safely and wisely, media and technology can support a child's growth. Apps, games, and websites can help kids with problem-solving, cooperation, handling...
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Digital Compass Introduction
In Digital Compass, students learn the fundamentals of digital citizenship through animated, choose-your-own-adventure interactive experiences, designed for grades 6-9. Invite students to explore digital dilemmas, make good (and...
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Follow the Digital Trail
Students learn that the information that they put online leaves a digital footprint or "trail." This trail can be big or small, helpful or hurtful, depending on how they manage it. This video works in collaboration with our Digital...
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Why Schools Should Teach Digital Citizenship
Learn why it’s important to address the 21st century skill of digital citizenship, in which students connect, collaborate, and communicate responsibly and safely.
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Getting Parents Involved in Digital Citizenship
How can you get parents involved in digital citizenship? Hear about the ways one district shared our parent education materials and reached out to parents.
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Curriculum Integration Ideas
How can you integrate our digital citizenship curriculum into your program? Educators share different models that will spark your thinking about how you can implement the program in your school or district.
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How To Use Curriculum Videos
Why are our curriculum videos so popular? Hear how one educator is using videos effectively to enhance student learning about digital citizenship.
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Digital Citizenship Curriculum Testimonials
Educators love our curriculum because it’s free, but it’s so much more! Hear from teachers and administrators about why they would recommend our innovative, engaging curriculum.
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Lesson in Action: Copyrights and Wrongs
Students learn about copyright, fair use, and public domain of images by role-play advertising executives. Teach the lesson: Copyrights and Wrongs (9-12) [link to http://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators/lesson/copyrights-and-wrongs-9-12]
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Strategies: Teaching Email Etiquette
Elementary students learn the difference between writing a formal email to a teacher, and an informal email to a friend.
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Strategies: Modeling the Digital Demo
One teacher shows how modeling using a digital media creation tool sets students up for success in their own creations.
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Strategies: Using Tablets when Teaching Sensitive Subjects
See how one teacher uses a screen writing app when addressing the sensitive subject of sexting.
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How Districts Can Support Schools in Digital Citizenship
Learn various ways districts can support teachers in implementing Common Sense Media’s Digital Citizenship curriculum.
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The Good And Bad Of Using Different Online Personas
Students meet ELA Common Core State Standards by making inferences about whether playing with identity online is harmful or harmless. Students learn to read a text closely, analyze details of how characters interact in a text, and draw...
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Understanding Fair Use in A Digital World
Students meet ELA Common Core State Standards by analyzing video remixes to judge whether or not they fall under fair use. Students learn complex concepts to evaluate visual content and present supporting evidence. Key Standard:...
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Cyberbullying: What's Crossing The Line
Students meet ELA Common Core State Standards by analyzing case studies to determine whether cyberbullying is taking place. They learn skills including evaluating a speaker’s point of view and reasoning, and presenting information...
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Online Targeting and Tracking
Highlights how search information is tracked online. Use this video in your classroom in conjunction with the lesson plan, Does It Matter Who Has Your Data?:...
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Pause and Think Online
Common Sense Media introduces "Pause & Think Online" and original song and video highlighting ways that students can use their hearts and minds to stay safe online and to protect their emotional well-being online and in life. For lyrics,...
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Copyright and Fair Use Animation
Students are introduced to copyright, fair use, and the rights they have as creators. Use this video in your classroom in conjunction with the lesson plan, Copyrights and Wrongs:...
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What is the Internet?
Young children discuss the definition of the Internet. Click for the related lesson, My Online Community: https://www.commonsense.org/education/lesson/my-online-community-k-2 For video discussion questions, visit:...