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Use it - Technology Operations and Concepts

Learning

  • The 6-Step Guide To Becoming A Better Learner - Learning is about enriching our minds, honing our skills, and changing the way we see ourselves and the world. It improves our behavior and the way we think by expanding and challenging our understanding. All too often I met students who were waiting for learning to happen, waiting for the right teacher to teach in the right way. But waiting can easily be disguised as productive—it isn’t. There are practices you can engage in right now that puts you on the path of self-education.
  • Learning How to Learn - selected short videos produced by students. These videos talk about different strategies for learning.


Digital Citizenship

  • Digital Citizenship - “the self-monitored habits that sustain and improve the digital communities you enjoy or depend on.”
  • The Definition Of Digital Citizenship - student-friendly approach by defining digital citizenship in terms of its actions and habits: using, sifting, mastering, creating–the literal actions that ultimately define the tone of a student’s interactions with their digital environments. graphic
  • 20 Basic Rules For Digital Citizenship - summary of appropriate online behavior in general, and for distance learning courses
  • Web Literacies - Exploring, Building, Connecting - weekly discussions - competency from each strand


Time management, Planning


Personal responsibility


Technology tips


Also see...

Ditch Your To-Do List and Do This Instead | Sam Corcos | The Tim Ferriss Show - YouTube
A different way to schedule your time based on your calendar and realistic times for tasks to do.
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Switching Between Skimming and Focusing | Edutopia
kimming allows learners to broaden their horizons to a wide range of subjects and ideas without committing excessive time to any single one. This breadth of knowledge can lead to serendipitous disc...
How to Excel at Self-Directed Learning in 5 Steps | Fuse Classroom
Self-directed learning allows students to become independent learners, helping them not just obtain skills but also practice of independent learning. Students have the freedom to create their own c...
Digital Citizenship | Common Sense Education
Everything You Need to Teach Digital CitizenshipHelp students take ownership of their digital lives.All students need digital citizenship skills to participate fully in their communities and make s...
How to Prioritize Workplace Tasks (With 5 Steps and Tips) | Indeed.com
Prioritizing includes deciding what order tasks should be completed based on their importance. This strategy may help you organize your time more efficiently. This helps you learn how to complete i...


Find it - Research and Information Fluency

Effective people


Math matters


Listening, Note-taking


Search, evaluation, citation, plagiarism


Creative Commons, images, video

  • Creative Commons - a nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools. Our free, easy-to-use copyright licenses provide a simple, standardized way to give the public permission to share and use your creative work — on conditions of your choice.
  • WikiMedia Commons - a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to everyone
  • Flickr Creative Commons - Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, and you can browse or search through content under each type of license.
  • A Shared Culture (video 3:20) - some of the leading thinkers behind Creative Commons describe how the organization is helping save the world from failed sharing through free tools that enable creators to easily make their work available to the public for legal sharing and remix.
  • Wanna Work Together? (video 3:00) - using Creative Commons (CC) licenses to build a better, more vibrant creative culture.


Also see...

What Are Research Skills? Definition, Examples and Tips | Indeed.com
Research skills are the ability to find an answer to a question or a solution to a problem. They include your ability to gather information about a topic, review that information and analyze and in...
How Search Works - YouTube
The life span of a Google query is less then 1/2 second, and involves quite a few steps before you see the most relevant results. Here's how it all works. page rank, search results, ads transcr...
Perplexity Blog
"What's the difference between Quick Search vs. Copilot Search?While Quick Search gives you fast, basic answers, Copilot goes further. It asks for details, considers your preferences, dive...
How to Be Amazingly Good at Asking Questions
You might not be getting the feedback you need to make corrections in your behavior. You might not be getting type of answers that you need to hear. You also might just be getting downright wrong i...
How Search Works - YouTube
video 3:14 The life span of a Google query is less then 1/2 second, and involves quite a few steps before you see the most relevant results. Here's how it all works."
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Google Alternatives Guide: How (and Why) to Avoid Google
We’ve come up with a list containing some of the best ethical alternatives to popular Google-owned products. MetaGer states that it “protects against censorship by combining the results of mult...
10 Best Web Search Tricks Everyone Should Know
web search techniques that work with virtually any search engine, along with a few basic web search skills you need to have for truly successful web searches.You can use a mobile search engine to b...


Protect it - Identity, Privacy and Copyright

Identity theft, privacy

  • PrivacyGrade Grading The Privacy Of Smartphone (Android) Apps from a team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University. assigned privacy grades to Android apps based on some techniques developed to analyze to their privacy-related behaviors.
  • Twelve Really Useful Links You Need to Know to Stay Safe on the Internet - a collection of articles that will help you understand the tricks and tactics used by malware writers and that explain how to set up some powerful computer defenses.
  • You Can Create The Perfect Password. Here's How - useful tips for creating and keeping track of your passwords, to better protect your personal information online
  • *Passwords - comic illustrates the problems with rules for passwords
  • *11 Tips For Students To Manage Their Digital Footprints - Digital Footprint - the record or trail left by the things you do online. Your social media activity, the info on your personal website, your browsing history, your online subscriptions, any photo galleries and videos you’ve uploaded — essentially, anything on the Internet with your name on it.
  • *You're Being Watched - even if someone isn't trying to steal your identity, they still want to know everything about you so they can place advertising where you are likely to see it.
  • *Here's How Easily Someone Could Hack Into Your Life (Infographic) - If you're reading this, there's 69 percent chance you will become a victim of hacking at some point in your lifetime. And if you think protecting yourself is as easy as changing a couple passwords and installing some anti-virus software, you're 100 percent wrong.
  • SciFri 12jul podcast - With the NSA conducting surveillance on our data and Google scanning our email, how can we protect our personal information? Jon Xavier, digital producer at Silicon Valley Business Journal, discusses the services that you can use to make your information more secure and private.
  • Cloudsweeper email tools - Safeguarding your cloud based storage.] - tools to help users understand and control their risks online while also conducting research to better understand those risks at a systemic level.
  • *DuckDuckGo - Search anonymously. Find instantly. - search engine that does NOT save your search history and share it with the government.
  • Ghostery - user-friendly privacy tool to understand and control more than 1,800 trackers that are tracking them when they browse.
  • Steal this blog - "Oversharing might result in more risk and unintended consequence than on might think, especially in the long run. If you’re comfortable being a human homing beacon, that’s fine, we just want you to be fully aware of what that means and the potential risk it might involve."
  • Three types of online attack: Mikko Hypponen on TED.com - Cybercrime expert Mikko Hypponen talks us through three types of online attack on our privacy and data — and only two are considered crimes.
  • Identity Theft Information - approximately 15 million United States residents have their identities used fraudulently each year, about $50 billion loss, approximately 7% of all adults have their identities misused, $3,500 losses each. each year 100 million personal identifying information placed at risk when government and corporate databases are lost or stolen.


Copyright, citation, plagiarism

  • Did I Plagiarize? - infographic
  • Can I Use That Picture? - infographic
  • Plagiarism: How to Avoid It (video 2:50) - good overview of plagiarism, what it is and how to avoid it.
  • Why It’s Time To Change How Students Cite Their Work - Without readily available sources to review, the audience cannot truly evaluate the validity of the project. They are left with what might be a beautiful and elegant project (the product) without knowing the sources used to construct it (the process).
  • Citing Sources - Finding the information for your research paper and determining whether that information fits what you need is just the first part of the process. Next, when you’re using this information in your own work, you’ll need to cite your sources to avoid plagiarism. Ethical standards require that you give credit to all published authors for their ideas.
  • Plagiarism - Most cases of plagiarism can be avoided by citing sources. Simply acknowledging that certain material has been borrowed and providing your audience with the information necessary to find that source is usually enough to prevent plagiarism.


Reading

  • DeAnza Student Success - Reading - resources, reading strategies, practice articles
  • Reading College Texts - preview, ask questions, read for details, review
  • Reading Skills - strategies for reading for college
  • How to do a Close Reading - developing a deep understanding and a precise interpretation of a literary passage that is based first and foremost on the words themselves. But a close reading does not stop there; rather, it embraces larger themes and ideas evoked and/or implied by the passage itself.


Social media, Twitter

  • Newbie's guide to Twitter - Twitter is an interesting and practical real-time messaging system for groups and friends. It's just not completely obvious how to get started.


Financial literacy


Also see...

Beat The Hackers and Stay Safe!
Here are some other signs that might suggest you're the victim of a digital break-in: Your system or device is running way slower...
What is catfishing and what can you do if you are catfished? | CNN Business
Catfishing is when a person uses false information and images to create a fake identity online with the intention to trick, harass, or sc...
5 financial scams to watch out for in 2024
"Fraud cost U.S. consumers more than $7 billion in the first three quarters of 2023, a 5% increase from the same period a year earli...
Google's new settings let you remove your private info from search results. Here's how | ZDNET
new dashboard for an existing feature called Results about you. Introduced in 2022, this feature lets you track any personal details that...
You are less anonymous on the web than you think — much less.
"Researchers say most people don’t realize how much information they're leaving behind as they browse the web. The Footprints...
Top 10 Internet Safety Rules & What Not to Do Online
"Unsafe surfing can also lead to other threats—from embarrassing personal comments or images that, once online, are nearly impossi...
Internet Safety: 7 Steps to Staying Safe Online - Ask Leo!
the majority of the things you need to do to stay safe on the internet are things you set up once and let happen automatically thereafter...
Cybersecurity Tips for Students
protect online privacy. The use of tools like a VPN, ad blocker, private browsers, and standard cybersecurity practices can all help stud...
Be Internet Awesome - A Program to Teach Kids Online Safety
To make the most of the Internet, kids need to be prepared to make smart decisions. Be Internet Awesome teaches kids the fundamentals of...
Torrent of image-based phishing emails are harder to detect and more convincing | Ars Technica
distinguishing feature: the images embed a QR code that leads to the credential-harvesting site. This can reduce the time it takes to vis...
12 Steps to Keep from Getting Your Account Hacked - Ask Leo!
Preventing account hacksTo secure your account from hacking: Select a good password. Protect your password. Set and protect your...
25 Essential iPhone Privacy Tips to Keep Your Data Safe
Protecting your privacy is crucial in today's digital age. Check out these 25 iPhone privacy tips to safeguard your personal informat...
Introducing Passkey Support – Fission
WebAuthn API, or Passkeys, is a user authentication system that replaces passwords using cryptography. We'll dive more into passkeys,...
Your Venmo Privacy Could Be Compromised. How to Protect Your Account - CNET
Both payment apps use encryption and fraud detection technology to protect account information. But to better ensure your security, you s...


Solve it - Critical Thinking, Problem Solving and Decision Making

Problem solving, critical thinking, learning, dealing with failure


Asking questions

  • 8 Tips for Becoming a Better Questioner - Innovation starts with questioning. Here's a quick list of 8 things great questioners do that set them apart from everyone else.
  • 15 Things You Will Never Hear a Master Questioner Say (video 2:29)
  • *Learn by Asking Questions - Asking Questions May Be the Single Most Important Thing You Learn
  • Learning To Ask The Right Question - a six-step process for learning to formulate questions and take ownership of learning. The strategy can be used to set a fresh learning agenda for yourself, develop science experiments, create research projects, begin research on a teacher-assigned topic, prepare to write an essay, analyze a word problem, think more deeply about a challenging reading assignment, prepare an interview, or simply get “unstuck.” The four rules are: ask as many questions as you can; do not stop to discuss, judge, or answer any of the questions; write down every question exactly as it was stated; and change any statements into questions.


Mobile tools

  • 5 Apps To Help You Cope With Anxiety - there is an app from almost everything it seems.
  • BYOD Toolchest - created by a teacher, this list outlines mobile apps that students and teachers can use for just about everything related to teaching and learning.


Programming

  • Hour of Code - main page, video, link to tutorials. Learn to program by directing Angry Bird characters
  • Scratch - a free programming language and online community where you can create your own interactive stories, games, and animations.


Tests and exams


Resumes, careers

Also see...

11 Active Listening Skills To Practice (With Examples) | Indeed.com
One of the most critical skills in effective communication is active listening. Developing this soft skill will help you build and mainta...
If you really want to reach your full potential, start saying “yes” to these 10 things
For many of us, reaching our full potential seems like an impossible task. We’re stuck in our 9 to 5 jobs and don’t even know where t...
Steve Jobs Said Your Overall Success May Be Tied to This Powerful Thinking Habit | Inc.com
Exercise "clean thinking"Before embarking on a new project or strategy, it's crucial to strip away the unnecessary complexi...
Warren Buffett Says Your Best Chance at Success Comes Down to 3 Simple Choices | Inc.com
Buffett's most famous rules -- your "inner scorecard."The inner scorecard defines your own standards and not what the world...
Nearly 30 Years Ago, Steve Jobs Said There's 1 Simple Habit That Separates the Doers From the Dreamers | Inc.com

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Steve Jobs Said 1 Choice We All Ignore Made All the Difference in His Life (and Led to His Success) | Inc.com
Embrace failure as a part of successJobs' quote also conveys the significance of embracing failure as an integral part of success. Ma...
When You’re Just Not Feeling Motivated | Psychology Today
don’t wait for motivation before you get started. And second, just get started. Do something. Anything that will get the ball rolling....
Brain Hack: 6 secrets to learning faster, backed by neuroscience | Lila Landowski | TEDxHobart - YouTube
Sharing the secrets to productive learning, backed by neuroscience. Dr Lila Landowski explains the methods which can be used to allow us...
Six Guidelines for “Getting to Yes” - PON - Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School
help both sides get more of what they want. By listening closely to each other, treating each other fairly, and jointly exploring options...
Project Scope Management Template
Project Scope Management TemplateUse this project scope management plan template to ensure that your team members define the scope for ev...
The Myth of Keeping Busy | Psychology Today Australia
people who appear to be busy are often esteemed or viewed as being important at work, even if there is no meaningful productivity from al...
The Cobra Effect: how linear thinking leads to unintended consequences
Have you ever tried to fix a problem, only to make things worse? That’s called the Cobra Effect—when an attempted solution results in...
5 Whys: The Ultimate Root Cause Analysis Tool
The 5 Whys technique is one of the most effective tools for root cause analysis in the Lean management arsenal. Every team faces roadbloc...
The Daily Habits of Happiness Experts
a sense of control and autonomy over one’s life, being guided by meaning and purpose, and connecting with others. And they largely agr...


Make it - Creativity and Innovation

Active Learning

  • Web Literacy Map is part of Mozilla’s ongoing goal to create a generation of webmakers – those who can not only elegantly consume but also write and participate on the web.


Productivity


Presentation


Writing


Creativity, innovation

  • IDEO Values - 7 videos. IDEO is in the business of design and innovation, and their overall success is dependent on the overlaps between everyone’s skills.
  • Student Film Festival - 16 selections tell the story of exactly why it's so important that we make sure more classrooms have the kind of cutting-edge technology they promote.
  • How To Build Your Tribe - Finding ‘Your People’ - One of the most fundamental human needs is the need to belong.


Project management


Also see...

Creativity Rubrics | MyPBLWorks
2022 Creativity Rubric These research-based rubrics are designed to provide useful, formative information that teachers can use to guide...
Scrintal is a great new tool for brainstorming ideas and projects
Map out a project. Organizing multistep projects can be challenging. Scrintal lets you easily focus on one element at a time. Create note...
With Just 2 Sentences, Steve Jobs Revealed a Beautiful Truth About Making Mistakes | Inc.com
beautiful lesson about success. You see, success isn't the pursuit of not making mistakes. Almost always, mistakes are the way you fi...
10 ways to get stuff done
Be realisticDon’t set yourself up to fail. If you write yourself the world’s biggest to-do list, chances are you’ll feel totally ov...
You may not know the difference between 'habits' and 'routines'—and it's your key to success in 2023, says attentio...
“Many of these behaviors require us to put in effort,” he continues. We shouldn’t think that there’s a “magical formula” that...
20 Entertaining Uses of ChatGPT You Never Knew Were Possible | by Mark Schaefer | Dec, 2022 | Medium
exploring the breathtaking possibilities of ChatGPT. The uses of ChatGPT are simply endless and intoxicatingIt’s still early days. Comp...
How to Build a New Habit: This is Your Strategy Guide
habits account for about 40 percent of our behaviors on any given day. Understanding how to build new habits (and how your current ones w...
My mom has 7 rules to be happy and successful as you age: No. 1 is, 'Your 20s are mostly practice'
my mom’s “rules of aging,” which have been ingrained in my head ever since I can remember:Your 20s are mostly practice — they alm...
15 Transferable Skills Companies Want: Examples & Definitions | FlexJobs
if you already have them, your employer doesn’t have to worry about training you on them. You can hit the ground running in any career...
10 ways to get the most out of your time on this planet |
time management, broadly defined, should be everyone’s chief concern. Yet the modern discipline of time management (or productivity) is...
Warren Buffett Says What Separates the Doers From the Dreamers Really Comes Down to 1 Easy Choice | Inc.com
Buffett has a strategy that he follows religiously: Go to bed a little smarter each day. He has literally applied this over his lifetime...
I talked to 1,000 CEOs of highly successful companies—and they all agree this is the No. 1 type of employee
the most successful individuals who rise to the top are what CEOs call “transformative employees” — and they do four key things tha...
15 Science-Backed Memory Tips to Help You Succeed (Infographic)
A major obstacle to memory retention is multitasking. In order to retain something, you must focus all of your attention on it. From maki...
3 Things That'll Make You a Master of Forming -- and Keeping -- Great Habits
simpler and easier way. The key to personal and professional change is the ability to set new, productive habits. The power of a well-for...


Share it - Communication and Collaboration

Academic success

  • Career development - links to a number of articles about career development in the current job market. Many reference lifelong learning and the use of technology as key factors.
  • Online Colleges and E-Learning Excellence - A student's guide to online education, from getting started to graduation. Learn keys to success and important how-tos from today's leading distance learning experts.
  • The Learning Flow - a continuous steady stream of social micro-learning activities – accessible from the web and mobile devices
  • Academic Skills - short videos - time management, think like a professor,...
  • Academic Skill-Building - * Ten Secrets of University Success * University Time Management * Reading Skills for University * Note-taking at University * Preparing for Tests and Exams
  • Khan Academy - practice and level up your skills or choose from thousands of lessons to learn something new.


Peer review, feedback, constructive criticism

  • Peer Editing Guide - this guide will help you to make thoughtful comments about another student's work.


Openness, collaboration, sharing

  • Openness in education David Wiley proposes 4 R’s — Reuse, Redistribute, Revise, and Remix.
  • 10 Tips for Blended Work Environments - A distributed workforce is becoming much more mainstream in today’s economy. Control over path and pace is not just for online learners – it’s for companies now, too. When given flexibility over working location, team members thrive. Allowing team members to work in an environment that is most productive for them has yielded great results.
  • Why That Video Went Viral - “People build their online identities by sharing,” he said. “They want people to think of them a certain way.”
  • Six-Word Memoirs - a powerful tool to inspire conversation around a big idea, and a simple way for individuals to break the ice.


Health and wellness


Online volunteering, community service learning

  • Online volunteering - thousands (if not millions) of engaged citizens volunteer virtually — using their computers, the Internet, even cell phones.
  • Guide to Volunteer Opportunities Online - It has never been easier to volunteer, and it seems to be more popular than ever as people of all ages and abilities look for ways to improve their communities.
  • Volunteer Match - online as well as in person volunteering opportunities


Also see...

10 Boomer Habits People Make Fun Of That Are Actually Good For You | YourTango
mealtime routine is actually very good for you: eating dinner at the table, without the distraction of screens.Putting their phones away...
Downes.ca ~ Stephen's Web ~ Tight 20
talk about for twenty minutes simply by organizing and presenting my thoughts on the topic. Do a 'quick three' - past, present or...
The Content Every High School Student Should Learn (But Doesn’t) | Getting Smart
"three core types of skills expected by schools: core skills (typically the skills of writing, reading, mathematics, history, arts f...
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People | FranklinCovey
Our character is a composite of our habits, which factors heavily in our lives. Because habits are consistent, unconscious patterns, they...
Harvard psychologist: If you use any of these 9 phrases every day, 'you're more emotionally resilient than most'
Emotionally resilient people are deliberate in their response to painful experiences. They allow themselves to grieve, remind themselves...
Emotionally Intelligent Leaders Use These 3 Words to Earn Respect and Be More Effective | Inc.com
Leaders make mistakes. Sometimes they make the wrong call. Sometimes they're not at their best. Being wrong isn't a fatal flaw, b...
Ten Ways Your Smartphone Can Help You Learn | Cornerstone University
In addition to helping you communicate, smartphones can also be very useful tools in continuing your education. They may even offer oppor...
How Much of What You See Is Actually a Hallucination?: An Animated TED-Ed Lesson | Open Culture
you don’t need sight to experience visual hallucinations. (You do need to have once had sight, which gives the brain visual memories on...
Best Communication Strategies for Virtual Group Projects | Fuse Classroom
Online group projects prepare students for the modern workplace, where virtual teamwork and collaboration are indispensable. Nevertheless...
I’m a psychology expert in Finland, the No. 1 happiest country in the world—here's the real meaning of life in 5 words
meaning in life boils down to five words: Make yourself meaningful to others. You can do this by opening yourself up to deep connections...
How To Edit Your Resume: 8 Steps To Make Your Resume Perfect | Indeed.com
Writing a perfect resume requires meticulous and rigorous editing. To make the best possible impression on an employer, you'll want t...
Wabi-Sabi | A Japanese Philosophy of Perfect Imperfection - YouTube
The pursuit of perfection has become the norm in today’s world, where chronic dissatisfaction, burnout, depression, and anxiety reign s...
The 10 most important skills for workers, according to the WEF
important skills for workers this year, according to the World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs report.1. Analytical thinking2. Creative...
10 Key Rules Business Etiquette for Every Professional to Follow
In business settings, certain habits or behaviors can be what sets you apart as an expert. Some companies put soft skills and communicati...



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