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Scratch' is really nice tool, it motivates pupils to work in pairs & use pair programming technique. It motivates children to be creative & interactive on modern digital platforms. :)

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It's a great platform about teaching literacy & numeracy. Children are motivated to use new ICT & interactive whiteboard. Congrats! :)

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Nice game suggestions, they're really nice! Thanks for sharing them! :)

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Game - based learning is really nice & useful. It helps pupils to learn foreign languages successfully, via interactive techniques. I like digital game where students use a special mat. It's funny & motivate children to be creative & to learn languages effectively. :)

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Thank you very much for the great presentation of digital competencies. Not only students but teachers need of them, in order to motivate their learners for creative studying via modern virtual platforms & mobile devices. :)

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First of all, thank you for the great video. It's nice to share our work related to ICT & modern devices. Digital skills & competencies are so important. :)

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Thanks for sharing the web design tools...they're nice! I often use my blog & special Facebook page in order to make lessons interactive. Here it is:http://billabung-renyraicheva.blogspot.bg/

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Thank you very much for all of these nice tools! I like them & use another ones as well. Here are: Photopeach, Photosnack, Pro Show, Roxio Photo Show, Sharalike, & of course, You Tube. It's great to present children's job via interesting video tools. Here's a little bit of my experience...enjoy it! :)

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First of all I'd like to thank you for the nice collaborative tools which Ollie presented here. One of my favourites is Microsoft Office 365, especially 'Sway'. It's a great platform for interactive images & presentations. It's amazing! I often use it to share children's project work. Here it is. With pleasure for you! :)

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My pupils are young, but I often present their project works on Facebook & Twitter. Of course we use the twinspace & a blog as well. Think that social networking is a great way to share successful children's job. New modern platforms are important, too. We use them in order to make our lessons creative & interactive. :)

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Teachers need of a lot of digital skills in order to teach new ICT, especially coding & programming. New digital literacy is important & teachers should give it to their students. The job market needs of successful IT specialists & creative young people. That's why the e - learning has to start in primary classes like language one. The educational system needs of innovative IT teachers to young learners. It would be great to know more about foreign language teaching, but also coding & programming. Give teachers an opportunity to learn PC languages, help them to be innovative in the digital era! Thanks! :)

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Copyright issues are important related to digital content, teachers & students have to know & follow these rules. The word 'creative integrity' is really useful when people use materials under Creative Commons. Thanks for sharing the interesting ideas. :)

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Wikipedia is amazing...it motivates students for creative & successful work. My pupils use Wikipedia on their project job.

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It has got nice web design, but is the info true? Wikipedia shares about it...it would be great students to read & know. :)

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The Pacific Northwest tree octopus is an Internet hoax created in 1998 by a humor writer under the pseudonym Lyle Zapato. Since its creation, the Pacific Northwest tree octopus website has been commonly referenced in Internet literacy classes in schools and has been used in multiple studies demonstrating children's gullibility regarding online sources of information.

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This fictitious endangered species of cephalopod was given the Latin name " Octopus paxarbolis" (the species name being coined from Latin pax, the root of Pacific, and Spanish arbol meaning "tree"). It was purportedly able to live both on land and in water, and was said to live in the Olympic National Forest and nearby rivers, spawning in water where its eggs are laid. Its major predator was said to be the Sasquatch.

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In 2018, the website was selected as one of 30 websites to form the initial collection of the Library of Congress's Web Culture's Web Archive.

Internet literacy studies

Leu et al. (2007) conducted an empirical study on 13-year old US school children's ability to critically evaluate online information for reliability. The sample included the top quartile of school children (n=53) in samples from the states of Connecticut and South Carolina. Each school child was exposed to the spoof site "Save The Northwest Pacific Tree Octopus", devoted to this rare species of octopus, complete with pictures of the animal itself and its environment. The school children then received a short, fictitious, message from another class, asking them to locate and evaluate the reliability of the website. They were to provide three reasons for their answer, and summarize the most important information from that website in one or two sentences. Then they were asked to send their information via IM, email, or to post this on a blog site. Following the activity, school children were interviewed to ensure that they were familiar with the term "reliable," an important concept in the task. When asked what this term meant, all responded with answers indicating that they understood the term (e.g., "It means that you can trust it;" "It means it will always be there for you;" or "It's like a friend that you can trust"). See also.

In the spring of 2017, Loos, Ivan & Leu (2018) replicated the study in a Dutch school class of 27 children (13 girls and 14 boys, 11/12 years old) in the following way: The teacher and the school children were told by the first author of the study that the lesson that would follow would be an online reading comprehension exercise; the real purpose of the lesson was not revealed in advance. The children were asked by the scholar to visit the abovementioned website. They were given the following instructions: "Have a look at this website. Look at the pictures, click on the links if you wish. Do not hurry, you have time enough. And this is not a test. It will not be graded." The website was automatically translated to Dutch, a facility offered by the Chromebook they all used. Then, they were asked to answer the following questions:

(1) This website presents an octopus living in trees. What country does this animal live in?

(2) According to the website, this particular octopus is an endangered species. For what reason?

(3) If Greenpeace were to ask you to save this octopus, would you support this and sign? YES, because ... NO, because ... (choose one)

(4) Were there parts of the website you didn't understand? If so, please explain.

(5) Are there any other comments about this website you would like to make?" Hence, these school children thought the text was about their willingness to undertake action for an endangered animal.

The pupils who answered 'YES' to question (3) were judged as perceiving the site as a reliable one. In this way, it was not necessary to explicitly ask about the reliability of the site, which would have risked priming them. The school children were debriefed after the session and they received a new media literacies training.

The 2007 US study found that slightly more than half (27) of the 53 school children taking part in the study reported the website as being very reliable. Only 6 out of the 53 school children (11%) viewed the website as unreliable. Each of these 6 school children had just participated in a lesson that used this website to teach them to be suspicious of information online.

In the 2017 Dutch study only 2 out of the total 27 school children (7%) recognized that the website was a hoax. The setting of the task (school environment), the trust in their teacher and the scholar, and the emotional involvement (the topic was an animal in danger) might have made it more difficult for them to perceive the information on the website as fake. Several told the scholar they were shocked that they had considered the digital information on the website to be reliable, as they had received several lessons in new literacy training at school over the past year.

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First of all, I'd like to thank you for the nice & useful video. Google Alerts is really great. I've never used it, but I'd like to try this engine, just about notifications of new results/ newspaper articles, webpages, blogs, etc./. It will be interesting & helpful in my work as a teacher.

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Nice video! Thank you! I rarely practice advanced search with my pupils, but it seems that it's interesting & useful! :)

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Searching via key words & topics is great & easy. My pupils like & try it.

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Of course, Google is everything, Google Books, Google Images, Google Earth, etc...but also amazing websites like You Tube for clips, videos, trailers, films. My elder learners like & use them a lot. Thanks for sharing it! :)

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Clips, videos, collages are my favourites...:) 

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Clips, videos, collages are my favourites...:) 

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First of all, I'd like to thank you for the great questions! It's important to motivate pupils for successful work & develop their creativity. The teacher is also an active person, it's great to make clips, videos, slideshows of wonderful children's products. I'm keen on modern digital tools & use new ICT in order to inspire my young learners for creativity. Our eTwinning project work is amazing & children are happy 'cos it. I feel so glad when pupils like their drawings, posters, crafts on social networking, twinspace, blogs & other great virtual platforms. It makes me feel useful for them. Modern devices & gadgets are the future. Coding is the new literacy. Let's have fun with it! :)

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With respect to dots...enjoy Roxio Photo Show! ;) 

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With respect to dots...enjoy Roxio Photo Show! ;) 

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Thanks to Ollie for these interesting & useful words, really nice analysis & statistics! Think that project - based learning will be a good experience & a try to motivate students for creative work, especially via new ICT & modern devices.

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Social networking is great...many teachers & students are on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin. Think that we can provide the value of future jobs via platforms above. Our learners will develop their digital skills & work more effectively on global virtual world. ;)

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First of all I'd like to thank you for these nice videos! Think that the 10 items are important in order to develop digital competencies of people. Young learners need to know more about new language - coding & programming related to job market. Modern digital era requires new knowledge, modern virtual skills for great communication & collaboration. The world is global & people need to learn new literacy like digital languages in order to write, speak, read, think, listen to themselves. Here's a little bit of my 'coding' lessons with pupils. Enjoy it! :)

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All of it is true & agree with you, Of course, it's a positive development, because new ICT & modern devices give us amazing opportunities to be together in the global world like a family. People communicate face to face, help, work each other & that's great. Ya, the present is different, the future will be more different as well. We have to prepare for these challenges developing our digital competencies & virtual skills. ;)

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Think that responsible use of the Internet is so important theme. Teachers should present it to pupils in order to keep them, to make virtual world & social networking safety. My colleague Darina & I participated on a great seminar in Brussels related to this topic last year. It was interesting & useful! Enjoy! :)

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First of all, thank you very much for the nice tools & resources! My pupils are young, so I prepared for them a blog & a Facebook page. We share all of our job there...:)

http://billabung-renyraicheva.blogspot.com/

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Really nice suggestions, thank you! Lego WeDo & bee - bots are amazing! I've never used robots in the classroom, but I'd try. Think that my pupils will be inspired by these nice toys. I remembered that children like puppets so much, that's why it will be great to use them instead robots, especially digital puppets & characters from computer games. Pupils can carry puppets which can make commands like robots...of course, they're cheaper...:)

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First of all, thank you very much for the great video, it's really nice experience of Italian colleague! Think that robots can be used in order to learn pupils how to code. Children can use your own digital devices like tablets & smartphones as well. They can be inspired by robots & they can be motivated to use their mobile gadgets in order to manage robots via symbols, signs, codes. So, I agree that the role of robots, especially 'beebots' is crucial. It will be great to see 'future classroom' with modern technologies, digital devices, mobile learning, amazing robots. We're looking forward that! :)

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Of course, we can link computing on our eTwinning projects which are virtual. Pupils learn how to code via amazing project - based learning. They participate digitally on eTwinning & make magnificent virtual products on different platforms. Our children dance, sing, draw, paint & make unforgettable things. Their motto is 'Be Creative!' :)

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Nice videos, I like the points of views. It would be great to motivate girls for coding via modern apps, through communication & participation on social networks, creative etwinning projects, including dancing, singing, art, etc. Think that a virtual world is a challenge about both the boys & the girls. 'Flipping Classrooms' can be a good proposal related to it. ;)

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Pair Programming is a great tool, I like it. My pupils can use this method when they collaborate & communicate in order to read QR codes, for example. Another technique is 'flipping classrooms' where children can prepare tasks online & then they discuss on them in the classroom. I'm going to make a lesson for QR codes related to it - to give pupils tasks of generating, reading & making homework via QR codes /online tasks which require PCs, laptops, tablets, mobile devices like smartphones/ & to discuss on it with students in the classroom then. It would be nice children to collaborate like this...:)

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Enjoy our school eTwinning job! :)

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For example, the topic of QR codes, a great activity to motivate pupils to learn coding, related learning by developing & lifelong learning. :)

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My pupils & I often work on eTwinning projects. One of them is about QR codes, unique bar codes which consist valuable info for things, goods, etc. It would be great to motivate children to use them, generate & scan, too. I'll try to explain young learners that in future people will write not with letters, but only with incredible codes. The info will be delivered through special symbols & signs. How faster will be that? With one click people will read, write, change thoughts,...QR codes will keep & save the valuable info as well. A good example is the popular book & amazing movie 'The Vinci Code' in which a big historical secret is hidden behind symbols & signs. Reading, writing, listening, speaking, thinking in future classroom will be via modern digital devices & codes. :)

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Hi & nice to meet you! Computing in primary classes is a modern topic, but at the most Bulgarian schools there aren't computers for each pupil, teachers haven't got ICT lessons in primary level, although there are children who want to learn it. Some colleagues use computers for teaching of elementary digital skills to young learners - on special groups of children's interests. Young learners don't know 'coding' at school, it's possible at home when they use their own mobile devices. It would be great pupils to bring their own devices, BYOD & learn how to code, write via codes? As a teacher in English I often use ICT platforms to present creative project work of my pupils & motivate them to use 'coding'. Young learners like these lessons very much. They often bring BYOD & make amazing QR codes, learn how to write via symbols & special signs. :)

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Somewhere in the digital world.... by Reneta

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I'm Reneta Raicheva & I'm from Bulgaria, It's a small, but beautiful country in southern Europe. I've been teaching for more than 20 years, the branch of mine is teaching English to young learners. My pupils are clever & talent. They like working on projects, especially eTwinning ones. Of course, we need of new technologies to reach successful results related to it. My children  & I hope that this course will be interesting & useful for all of us. Think that suggested resources & materials will improve our digital competencies & skills about mobile learning, virtual platforms & devices. Thanks in advance! :)