Practice making smart choices online and in life with these free resources, games and activities from Common Sense Media. The resource include videos, downloadables, interactive websites and apps.
"Introduce students in grades 6–8 to Digital Compass™ by Common Sense Education. The award-winning game is an innovative way to give students the freedom to explore how decisions made in their digital lives can affect their relationships and futures.
Through the suite of popular choose-your-own-path games, students play through the perspective of one of eight main characters, each of whom is facing a different digital citizenship dilemma. The varied story paths and multiple decision points encourage students to play repeatedly in order to explore alternative courses of action. Games are also available in Spanish."
Students will be able to:
• Find facts and gather data for conscientious decisions
• Synthesize information and evaluate options
• Assess situations in order to make informed judgments
• Reflect on decisions and determine alternative choices
• Build interpersonal empathy by role-playing and taking the perspective of others
• Develop skill-based competencies through game-based learning
• Apply learnings to real-world situations
The Digital Licence is an interactive resource that challenges young people to examine their interactions online and to think more critically. Referencing current trends and applications, the resource helps students and educators on their path toward informed digital citizenship.
It features about eight scenarios, tailored by age level, that cover topics including what constitutes copyright violation and how to stay safe online. Each student registers individually and then progresses through background material related to a given scenario, which might include a video or examining a given situation. When a student feels confident she has mastered a topic, she can take a "prove it" quiz that puts her knowledge to the test. A passing score is 80 percent or greater. Scores, answer resets and attempts are logged for educators, who can follow each student's progress in an admin toolbar. Educators can further specify which scenarios will be required to earn a DDL.
At Sun West you can log into this using your Sun West Office 365 credentials.
Digital literacy frameworks for Canada divided into the age groups: K-3, 4-6, 7-8, 9-12.
USE, UNDERSTAND & CREATE: A Digital Literacy Framework for Canadian Schools - this document provides an overview and the big picture of digital literacy.
When you click each grade level a series of lessons will be accessible. These are fabulous lessons and all materials are provided.
Digital Nation is a new, open source PBS project that explores what it means to be human in an entirely new world -- a digital world. It consists of this Web site as well as a major FRONTLINE documentary to be broadcast on Feb. 2, 2010. Our production team is posting rough cuts and raw footage on the web, and gathering input, feedback and stories from users as we go.
"Introduce students in grades 3–5 to Digital Passport™ by Common Sense Education. The award-winning suite of six interactive games addresses key issues kids face in today's digital world. Each engaging game teaches critical digital citizenship skills that help students learn to use technology responsibly to learn, create, and participate. Games are available in Spanish."
Learn about passwords, online safety, sharing private information online, cyberbullying, how to search and more - all by playing games.
A complete educator guide is available.
Teachers are always looking for tools to make their lives
easier. And so are we. That?s why the Global Digital
Citizen Foundation created this ebook series called ?Free
Tools for Teachers.?
In this volume, we feature free tools for doing digital
media production. You?ll find some of the best free
resources on the Web for video editing, photo editing, and
also podcasting.
Explore these great free online tools we?ve picked just for
you, and have fun learning!
Teachers are always looking for tools to make their lives easier. And so are we.
That?s why the Global Digital Citizen Foundation created this ebook series called
?Free Tools for Teachers.?
In this volume, we feature free tools for writing, blogging, and websites. Check out
some of the best free resources on the Web for digital storytelling, creative writing,
blogging, and also great tools for building free websites.
Explore these great free online tools we?ve picked just for you, and most of all,
have fun learning!
• A resources section with handy links to our best stuff
• A page of all the free downloadable templates we've created
• A videos page with everything organized and easy to find
• A Google page with our most popular Google-related content
Includes: videos, podcasts, e-books, guides, templates.
*Click the resources tab at the top of the page to find templates, videos, e-books, guides, podcasts and more.
ALL FREE!
"Choose a video, give it your magic touch and track your students' comprehension.
Check if students are watching your videos, how many times they're watching each section, and if they're understanding the content.
Introduce students to self-paced learning with interactive video lessons. It's easy to add your own voice narration and questions!
Use videos from YouTube, Khan Academy, Crash Course and more. If you'd rather record and upload your own video, go for it!"
Free for students and teachers!
In this section, you can find...
Educational computer games that introduce kids to key ideas in media and digital literacy. These games are a great way to start a conversation on media issues in the home or classroom, and you can play most of them right here on our website.
Easily create and share beautiful stories.
One collaborative platform to promote arts through storytelling.
Teachers can create one class account with 30 students for free.
"Create and share Interactive stories for free! Elementari promotes arts and literacy through their platform that allows users to easily write, collaborate, and publish interactive stories for free. Educators can create a free classroom of up to 30 students and have access to Elementari’s curriculum guide. Students can write and illustrate digital stories that allow for voice recorded narration. In addition, students can also animate their stories using basic coding functions." (AASL)
Watch a series of videos that will teach kids how to code and go on a variety of fun STEM adventures!
"Explore.org hosts live streaming videos from all over the world allowing learners to observe a variety of animals in their natural habitats.
The learning extends beyond the classroom offering a portal into the natural world with authentic exposure to a variety of species.
Applications of explore.org can include creating a center activity in which students observe animals in their natural settings to gather and record data as citizen scientists.
As the introduction to an animal research project, this resource can ignite curiosity and encourage further investigation.
Additionally, explore.org can serve as a gateway to compare and contrast different animals among diverse habitats." (AASL)
Observe animals all over the world! Exotic to pets to farm animals!
MAKE CURRICULUM COME ALIVE
DESIGN IN AUGMENTED REALITY AND SHARE YOUR CREATIONS.
You are able to sign up for a free teacher account (with limited use) but there are also full accounts available for a cost (9.99 a month or 2-3 dollars a student depending on how you sign up).
Learn to code. EARN CERTIFICATIONS.
Free code camp is a great website for online learning. The site lets you learn to code with free online courses, programming projects, and interview preparation for developer jobs.
AppGameKit's Education Pack includes everything a teacher or lecturer needs to teach coding skills and is an easy to use tool that can be deployed quickly and easily in the classroom.
AppGameKit works across a range of abilities so is suitable for primary and secondary schools, sixth form colleges, universities and summer camps.
Teachers will need to register to get a free kit and get started.
"This tool allows you to create presentations, infographics, video presentations, resumes, and more.
It includes many templates with access to photos, animations, and illustrations giving the user the ability to make any image or text interactive.
Content can be shared through a link or downloaded.
Teachers can make materials to share with students or other teachers, and students can use to build resumes or design a product for summative assessment." (AASL)
The gamification options look really good within this tool. You (or your students) can make a variety of different games to test content.
There are some great product choices in here to demonstrate learning.
This is a great resource! It is a geography-based game - and a whole lot of fun!
"GeoGuessr is a web-based geographic discovery game designed by Anton Wallén, a Swedish IT consultant, released on 9 May 2013. The game uses a semi-randomized Google Street View location for paying members and Mapillary for non-members. The game requires players to guess their location in the world using only the clues visible." (Wikipedia)
You can play one free game every 24 hours or subscribe to be able to play as much as you want.
Glitch is the friendly community where everyone can discover and create the best stuff on the web.
From useful tools that solve problems at work, to cutting-edge VR experiences, smart bots, and apps that help advance important causes, Glitch is a unique community where people have built over a million projects for you to discover, with new ones are popping up every day.
If you’re new to Glitch, just explore some of the featured projects or categories to check out fun games to play or try out handy little apps. It’s like a familiar App Store, but almost everything is free and created by regular people like you.
But if you don’t find exactly what you want, that’s where the magic happens.
Every app on Glitch can be remixed. With just a click, you get your own copy of the app that you can customize, personalize, extend and build on to your heart’s content.
If you’re not a developer, don’t sweat it — you can make simple changes as easily as you edit a spreadsheet. Apps update live as you type. You can even share the project with a friend or colleague and they can work on the same code at the same time as you. It makes collaborating on code as easy as sharing in Google Docs. And if you get stuck, you can just raise your hand for help!
From students who are just seeing their first line of code, to some of the best programmers at the biggest tech companies, everybody is on Glitch and ready to help each other out.
Check back on Glitch each day, and we’ll show you cool, inspiring, useful apps and sites that you won’t see anywhere else, made by some of the most creative people on the internet.