#spotlightonstrategies

Welcome to the SOS Top Ten series. In this edition, we highlight some ways to use Spotlight on Strategies (CDN Version) to teach and reinforce strong digital citizenship behaviors in your students. Digital citizenship encompasses a broad range of topics, all of which impact the safe and responsible behavior of all members of the digital community. Common Sense Media, a leading nonprofit offering digital literacy and citizenship programming, organizes digital citizenship into eight concepts. These concepts can be combined into…

Welcome to the SOS Top Ten series. In this edition, we highlight ways to use Spotlight on Strategies (CDN Version) to promote higher-order thinking skills. The Partnership for 21st Century Learning identifies four areas of skills, knowledge, and expertise that students should master to succeed in 21st century work and life: Communication, Collaboration, Critical Thinking, and Creativity. Critical Thinking specifically focuses on effective reasoning, systems thinking, making judgements and decisions, and solving problems, all of which are higher-order functions. Many of the strategies in the Spotlight on… This is only a snippet of a Education Article written by Susan Bowdoin…

Welcome to the SOS Top Ten series. In this edition, we highlight ways to use Spotlight on Strategies (CDN Version) to promote higher-order thinking skills. The Partnership for 21st Century Learning identifies four areas of skills, knowledge, and expertise that students should master to succeed in 21st century work and life: Communication, Collaboration, Critical Thinking, and Creativity. Critical Thinking specifically focuses on effective reasoning, systems thinking, making judgements and decisions, and solving problems, all of which are higher-order functions. Many of the strategies in the Spotlight on… This is only a snippet of a Education Article written by Susan Bowdoin…