June is National Internet Safety Month, thanks to a resolution passed in 2005 by the U.S. Senate. The goal is to raise awareness about online safety for all, with a special focus on kids ranging from tots to teens. Here's a short list of internet cautions I got from an online efriend a
few years ago. I reprint it every year because it covers all the basics, avoids boring details, and gives kids (and adults) rules to live by: Click for more Last year, we posted books you might like to read this summer. Now, we'll focus on what to accomplish with your summer. Here are popular AATT articles. Pick the ones that suit you: I get a lot of questions from readers about what tech ed resources I use in my classroom so I'm going to take a few days this summer to review them with you. Some are edited and/or written by members of the Ask a Tech Teacher crew. Others, by tech teachers who work with the same
publisher I do. All of them, I've found well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, taking into account the perspectives and norms of all stakeholders, with appropriate metrics to know learning is organic and granular. Today: K8 Digital Citizenship Curriculum Click for more Since 2020, U.S. software developer employment has been declining, with fewer employed in January 2024 compared to January 2018, but those with the appropriate skills experience an eye-popping low unemployment rate of
2% and a median salary of $132,270. You'd think High School and college students would flock to these jobs, but they don't. The Ask a Tech Teacher team decided to dig deeper into ways to encourage students to consider software engineering to be a realistic job choice: Click for more |
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