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Digital Literacy 2010: Effective Search Strategies

Sunday, September 26th, 2010

Of all the topics in our 7th grade Digital Literacy course, Effective Search Strategies is easily the most relevant to daily life; everyone searches the Internet.  In terms of worldwide search queries, these comScore figures from December 2009 are staggering: Google: 88 billion per month Twitter: 19 billion per month Yahoo: 9.4 billion per month [...]

Digital Literacy 2010: Social Bookmarking

Thursday, September 16th, 2010

Social bookmarking, the third topic in our Digital Literacy course, has been a staple of our 1:1 Tablet PC program for the past three years.  Throughout that time, Delicious has been our tool of choice and offers several advantages over saving bookmarks in a browser, including the ability to access links from any computer, easily [...]

Digital Literacy 2010: Social Networking

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

As I noted last week, our 7th grade Digital Literacy course is designed to prepare students for living and learning in the 21st century and is guided by two essential questions: How does your passion affect and reflect who you are as a person and learner? How does technology affect and reflect who you are [...]