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Rough Waters: Helping Adolescents Navigate Digital Information Sources

On: February 8, 2021

In: ISTE 1: Change Agent, ISTE 2: Connected Learner

How can digital tools effectively help secondary students critically evaluate the credibility, perspective or accuracy of digital sources or information in real time?Continue Reading

I teach 6th grade Language Arts and History in Western Washington state. I am in my 20th year as an educator and 17th year in the classroom. With a bachelor’s degree in English (with an education minor in history), and a master’s of education in Curriculum and Technology, it's safe to say that teaching and learning are my favorite things.

Previously, I taught in Michigan, Hawaii and Virginia, and served as an Educational Technology Facilitator at York County School District in Virginia and am currently a graduate student in the Digital Education Leadership program at Seattle Pacific University.