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Helping Children Navigate Digital Streets: Ideas for Parents (and Teachers, Too)
Several times recently I’ve mentioned a colleague’s blog post, A Letter to Parents of Digital-Age Students. Published at Getting Smart, this piece is so good that I’ve already shared it with...
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Action Words that Describe Digital World Learning
Can we teach pre-adolescents and teens to reflect on what’s happening as they use digital world tools and interact with online content? Can we help them understand more about what they are doing when...
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Is Privacy Protected When a Student Learns Online?
If you think that the digital world may be getting it together on the privacy front, at least when it comes to children, think again. A disturbing article, Data Mining Your Children, published in...
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Teaching Kids to Search Well and Evaluate What They Find
My post, Back-to-School Research Tip: Help Your Child Use Curated Online Databases, is posted over at the Platform for Good website. It describes strategies that parents and educators can use to help...
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National Library of Medicine Learning Resources for Young Learners
Check out The National Library of Medicine (NLM) resources for K-12 education, including a number of games. The library is a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and also has an excellent...
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Check Out Harvard’s Free Online Course: Religions of the World MOOC
We all need to learn more about the religions of the world. Even people who are not especially religious need to become respectfully informed. Now a Harvard online MOOC course on the world’s religions...
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