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K–12 Schools View Technology as a Guardrail for Good Digital Citizenship

EdTech Magazine

is on a mission to bridge the digital divide and train a generation to become good digital citizens. Jefferson County Public Schools, a one-to-one district in the diverse city of Louisville, Ky.,

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Celebrate Digital Citizenship Week this week!

eSchool News

Across all content areas and grade levels, teachers are now addressing the digital citizenship skills kids need to be safe and responsible online. Our K-12 Digital Citizenship Curriculum along with our Connecting Families program give schools and communities a foundation for addressing these critical topics in and out of the classroom.

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We're All Digital Citizenship Teachers - Here's the "How To Guide"

The Innovative Educator

School leaders have finally taken more seriously the work of bridging the digital divide. Along with this shift comes the responsibility of ensuring every educator understands the importance of, and knows how to teach, digital citizenship at every grade level. Learn how to get started.

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We're Closing the Digital Divide. Now Let's End the Participation Gap.

Edsurge

More specifically, the participation divide refers to the fact that some students are more plugged into an internet culture around creating, connecting with others and giving and receiving feedback around their work. Often seen as an “add on” consideration in many districts, digital citizenship needs to be addressed intentionally.

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Is the digital divide entirely different from what we think it is?

eSchool News

For a while now, there’s been a great deal of concern over the digital divide—the gap between students who have easy access to technology and those who don’t. The subtler, but no less harmful, digital divide is between the students who are empowered to be creators and problem solvers with technology, and those who aren’t.

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Digital Divide

EdTechTeam

Is there a digital divide in our schools? Before we get into the importance of the digital divide in schools, what is the digital divide? A digital divide is a gap between different demographics and regions in the world that have access to technology and those who doesn’t.

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7 Shifts to Closing the Digital Divide

EdTechTeam

How can we close this digital divide? According to the US Department of Education , there are seven ways to help close the digital divide. This year at Schuylerville, our middle school students started the year with a digital citizenship lesson about being a consumer of technology versus being a creator.