Skip to main content

Trends in Edtech: Interland Online Game

 


Topic #1: Digital Citizenship

According to Diana Fingal of ISTE in "The Hottest Topics in Edtech in 2021," Digital Citizenship is one of the hottest trends in educational technology. When learning went online in 2020 at the start of the pandemic, the importance of teaching students about being responsible and safe online was more important than ever before. 

Therefore, Google created a FREE Digital Citizenship curriculum called Be Internet Awesome for K-12 teachers and included a video game (Interland) for students to reinforce the concepts taught in the curriculum. I will take you through a quick tour of the Interland game and other teacher resources available on the Be Internet Awesome website. Interland falls under Topic #1: Digital Citizenship because the game teaches kids how be good digital citizens by being kind, respectful, responsible, and safe online.



 

For Families: If you are interested in discussing being safe online with your children, there are resources available for you here. 

For Teachers: Teachers can access the Be Internet Awesome curriculum and Interland game here. 

For more Digital Citizenship information, check out these amazing resources:

Brainpop - Digital Citizenship Collection

Common Sense Media - Digital Citizenship Curriculum

DigCitCommit - Digital Citizenship Resources

DigCitInstitute - Digital Citizenship Course

Edpuzzle - Blog

EVERFI - Digital Wellness and Safety

Facebook - Digital Literacy

ISTE - Spark Change

Nearpod - Digital Citizenship Curriculum

Newsela -  Text Set

Note to Self - Podcast





Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Twitter Chat Connections

My First Twitter Chat! I found my first Twitter chat to be very exciting! At first I tried to join some Twitter chats, but they were not running so I was disappointed, and I was nervous that I would not find any chats to join. However, I discovered a Twitter chat called  #BuildHOPEedu   in my Twitter feed, and  the moderator for  #BuildHOPEedu   was Roman Nowak @NowakRo.  I joined  #BuildHOPEedu  pretty easily using Tweetdeck. Tweetdeck was helpful to keep the the tweets focused on the chat, but on the other hand, all of the columns were a bit distracting. Everyone on the chat was very kind, and I felt super happy when someone liked my tweet! (Author's Image) Mentor Teachers As you can see from the graphic below, the topic for the Twitter chat was about mentors for teachers. When I was a first year teacher in 2004, I did not have a formally assigned mentor, but I did find a mentor teacher on my own who helped me through my first year. In 2012 and ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Engaging Students: Community Book Clubs

What is Active Learning?  Active learning takes place when students are doing rather than passively receiving information. According to The Center for Teaching Innovation at Cornell University , active learning takes many different forms including reading, writing, discussing, thinking, evaluating, designing, and solving problems just to name a few. The role of the teacher in active learning is to provide timely and frequent feedback in order for students to correct mistakes and understand the material better.  How Does Active Learning Help Students? Active learning is more engaging and motivating for students.  The application of information will stick longer in students' memories. Using different learning modalities (thinking, discussing, writing, etc.) allows students to process information in the way that best suits their learning style. A classroom community is built when students are actively working together on shared objectives and projects, and when students work...
4 comments
Read more