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Our district has recently gone 1:1 and each student in grades 2nd-6th has been given a Chromebook that goes home with them each day. Since this is our first year doing this, how do we make sure that this technology is being used effectively?

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for the teachers so they know what types of lessons are appropriate for the students.

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This will make sure that the Chromebooks are being used.

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Have teachers present their favorite lessons to each other at grade level meetings

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Use google analytics to show students how they are using their time. Discuss with them how they can be more efficient.

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You could use Google Classroom and add all of your students into your class. Then you could incorporate training sessions using videos, links, and assignments to teach students how to effectively use the chrome books. You could also set up some sort of "digital check-in" for students to do each time they are working on some sort of assignment.

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Create training sessions for  students to support chrome book use.  Topics could include google classroom,  researching content online, how to manage email, how to keep chromebooks safe, etc.

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What were the lessons other similar districts learned when they went 1:1? What would they wished they had known

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Ask students to create "how to" videos for other students. For example, how to take videos, upload attachments from Google drive and more. The students will have vested interest and you can create a sort of tech squad from the students who do well with the project. The tech squad can help other students use the tools properly.

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At our school, we have found that using the technology to create digital portfolios to showcase and reflect on growth have been a good place to start.

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Try holding "appy" hours after school.  Low stress meetings that focus on an app that has multiple uses.  We have done this with Padlet, Adobe Spark, Seesaw, and Piccolage.  Participants can brainstorm ways to use these apps at their grade level and then share with other teachers who did not attend.

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A teacher at my school found this idea that is actually very helpful.  Create a tip sheet each week on a different tech tool/idea
and post it in the bathroom.  Everyone needs some reading material there!

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Meet with teachers and help them to outline exactly what acceptable tech use will look like and how they will teach/model this in their classroom. Just like classroom procedures (like when to sharpen pencils or how to ask to use the bathroom) that we teach at the beginning of the year, teachers should be clear on how they want the tech tools used in their classroom. I like Kristen Mattson's Digital Citizenship in Action and Mike Ribble's Digital Citizenship in Schools.

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Discover ways to help students develop relationships based on mutual trust and understanding in digital spaces and become active, participatory citizens in these spaces. aims to do just that.

For years, much of the available curricula for teaching digital citizenship focused on "don'ts." Don't share addresses or phone numbers. Don't give out passwords. Don't bully other students. The conversation then shifted, with digital citizenship curriculum moving toward teaching students how to positively brand themselves so that they would stand out for future scholarships and job opportunities.

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Digital Citizenship in Action: Empowering Students to Engage in Online Communities

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Amazon.com: Digital Citizenship in Action: Empowering Students to Engage in Online Communities: 9781564843937: Mattson, Kristen: Books

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Send your teachers to the Common Sense website. Here they will find app and movie ratings, lesson plans, digital citizenship curricula, and even parent letters. Love this site!

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Common Sense Education provides educators and students with the resources they need to harness the power of technology for learning and life. Find a free K-12 Digital Citizenship curriculum, reviews of popular EdTech apps, and resources for protecting student privacy.

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Each morning during morning meeting (or weekly) the the students could share what they created and/or worked on. You could create a digital maker fair to display all the projects once a a month or once a quarter

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Ask students to log how much time they are spending in front of the screen each evening. I wonder how many parents are using the computers in homes where the Chromebook is the only tech they have.

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Have students tell about their favorite feature of the Chromebook and share with others

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I realized the feature fair could also work for teachers. Have teachers share with students what they love about Chromebook and show some great features they may not know about such as read & write and other extensions

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Show the students the Google play store and some fun games they can have for free. Explain they can use the games as a brain break and teach them to set a ten minute timer per hour of academic work. They are most likely playing games already , so this would give some accountability