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Learn insight from various research on the uprising trends of teen social media and how to create a positive digital footprint.

I won’t know for about 6 weeks if I passed the California Teachers of English Learners (CTEL) test , which I took yesterday at CSU, Sacramento. Taking the CTEL is an all day affair, if you…

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Common Sense Media has created a curriculum that educators can use in order to teach students about being digital citizens. Click on the link to find lesson plans that align with your grade level and topic of choice.

5 Essential Media Literacy Questions for Kids is a video from Common Sense Education. Use this video to help your students learn and thrive in our connected world.

These apps and digital tools selected by Common Sense Education can enable students to help lonely kids during lunchtime or find social causes they care about.

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Have you seen Netflix's new British drama, "Adolescence"? Here's what kids and adults are saying about it, along with 3 key themes from the show that can help start meaningful conversations with tweens and teens. Link for the full carousel and tips.

Sing along to our video and teach students how to be a good digital citizen.

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Digital well-being is when we're charge of our media choices, when technology supports our health and wellness, and when all kids can learn and thrive online.

this is the digital fotprint and reputation link from common sense media. https://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators/digital-citizenship/self-image-and-identity

Use these Internet Safety lessons to teach your middle school students the importance of staying safe online. 100% Digital and Editable. The first lesson is a Google Form (no prep if used as is but editable if you care to change the questions) students will watch videos and read text to answer 15 multiple choice and true/false questions about Internet Safety. Higher thinking and understanding comes with lesson two as students choose from a 100% Editable Internet Safety Choice Board to…

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Parent's Guide: watch Common Sense Media's Get Cybersmart with Phineas and Ferb advice video to help you make informed decisions with your children.

Today 3rd graders at one of my elementary schools made colorful geometry posters using a Comemories site and the FREE app, Pic Collage. First, students visited {THIS} Comemories site I put together that hosts images of different Geometry terms. They saved each picture to their camera roll before going to Pic Collage. Pic Collage is a great app to use for making digital posters. It is very user friendly :) Students added the title "Geometry", chose a colorful background, inserted their images…

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What makes a healthy media choice? GRADE: 4 TIME: 45 mins. We all make choices every day about the media we consume and create. But do kids understand what makes a media choice healthy or not? Hint: It's about more than just screen time. Use the activities in this lesson to give kids a framework for making informed media choices. OBJECTIVES: - Learn the "What? When? How Much?" framework for describing their media choices. - Use this framework and their emotional responses to evaluate how…

What are the pros and cons of children on social media? Well, a lot depends on what they're doing on social media. And on who you ask.