"All About Me"
Gone Digital
Guiding K-12 Footprints in the Technology Age
Designed by the Hope College
Educational Technology Team
Welcome
Educators from kindergarten to graduate school are utilizing blogs, websites, and digital portfolios as creative and accessible ways to allow students to tell the world all about themselves.
Yet, how do students know what to present, how to do it, and why it matters? Does everything once effective on paper work with technlogy? What doors will this open? What resources do educators need to be successful in this changed approach?
Note: This site was designed to complement a presentation by the Hope College Educational Technology Team at the 2014 Michigan Association of Computer Learners Conference.
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Why Use Digital Tools in the Classroom?
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Students learn how to practice digital citizenship so that they...
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Stay safe!
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Are prepared for a society that is fully integrated with technology
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Can communicate via technology
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Recognize the significant impact their digital footprint can have
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Expand learning beyond the four walls of the classroom
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Students have access to knowledge from sources around the world
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Students can connect to and communicate with a much wider audience
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Helpful Resources
NetSmartz Workshop
(National Center Missing &
Exploited Children)
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Resources for teachers, parents, and students about digital citizenship
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Kathy Cassidy on
Student Digital Portfolios
1st Grade, Saskatchewan
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Ms. Cassidy, an avid technology user and teacher, shares her reasons for why her students have digital portfolios.
Notable Quotes
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is most important.
— Bill Gates
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There can be infinite uses of the computer and of new age technology, but if teachers themselves are not able to bring it into the classroom and make it work, then it fails.
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Teaching in the Internet age means we must teach tomorrow’s skills today.
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— Nancy Kassebaum
We need technology in every classroom and in every student and teacher’s hand, because it is the pen and paper of our time, and it is the lens through which we experience much of our world.
— Jennifer Fleming
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— David Warlick
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Rao, Aditi. "10 Educational Technology Quotes." teachbytes. N.p., 1 Mar. 2012. Web. 12 Mar. 2014. .