Join us for a free webinar about Digital Citizenship with author Kathy Cassidy
Join author Kathy Cassidy, Powerful Learning Practice CEO Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach, and PLPress Managing Editor John Norton for a one-hour live webinar on September 14th at 7pm Eastern (New York) time. During this webinar, we’ll talk about digital citizenship and take a deeper look inside Kathy’s book Connected from the Start: Global Learning in the Primary Grades.
Even very young children can begin to understand how to use technology appropriately. What should the norms for this age group be? Should it include online publishing? Social media? How can we teach the concept of responsible use to pre and emerging writers? We’ll explore what is appropriate for young children and how we can begin to prepare them for life in a digital age.
This webinar has concluded, but you may download the archive below.
Grab the archiveAbout Connected from the Start
In her book, Connected from the Start: Global Learning in the Primary Grades, primary teacher Kathy Cassidy makes a compelling case for connecting our youngest students to the world, using the transformative power of Internet tools and technologies. Her well-balanced text presents both the rationale for connecting students “from the start” and the how-to details and examples teachers need to involve children in grades K-3 in using blogs, Twitter, Skype and other social media to become true global learners.
This highly interactive digital book — featuring dozens of color photos, six student-centered videos, and hundreds of live links to helpful downloads and outside resources — invites the reader right into Kathy’s cozy and connected classroom, where kids are talking live with students “down under,” swapping video with peers in Greece, and using personal blogs to create digital portfolios that document their growth and achievement for parents, families and a worldwide audience.
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Kathy Cassidy is a grade-one teacher for Prairie South Schools in Moose Jaw, SK, Canada. Since 2005, she has been integrating various technologies into her teaching practice to help “connect” her primary-grades students so they can become global learners. Kathy also does professional development presentations and workshops on technology integration and early literacy and is a recipient of the Kay L. Bitter Award from the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) for outstanding technology leadership in the primary grades. Follow her on Twitter @kathycassidy
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