This post was created in partnership with Bing.
Did you know that Bing in the Classroom provides digital literacy plans for teachers? This program is enhancing the classroom environment and improving children’s abilities to learn digital literacy skills, which are vital due to the digitally advanced world our children are growing up in. If you haven’t heard the great news yet, let me begin by telling you that Bing in the Classroom is an ongoing program focused on helping kids use technology to inspire and satisfy their curiosity. Bing is now providing ad-free searching, more private searching in schools, as well as those daily lesson plans I mentioned earlier. Bing in the Classroom has also created a rewards program that community members can use to earn tablets for their schools. Sign up for Bing Rewards if you haven’t already.
Parents and teachers can take 10 minutes every day with kids to explore the web through a big, beautiful image of the day. Bing in the Classroom lesson plans promote digital literacy and critical thinking in fun, short activities that align with the common core and are written by teachers Bing knows and love. But you don’t have to be a teacher to take advantage of Bing’s daily lesson plans, anyone can utilize these tools.
[Tweet “I support @bing in bringing #AdFreeSearch to our schools. Join the movement #BingClassroom”]When a school district decides to sign up for Bing in the Classroom, they take all the ads out of Bing.com search results. Then Bing turns on SafeSearch with strict filtering, to help filter out adult content that doesn’t belong in schools. And finally, Bing in the Classroom adds enhanced privacy settings that prevent use of search data for personalized ad profiles. Because students should be able to access the transformative power of search at school without having to worry that their searches will be used for ad profiling.
There is nothing more powerful than the power of community. Parents, teachers, and administrators should band together to support digital literacy in all schools. Show support for #adfreesearch! Allow our children the opportunity to use the internet to explore, learn, and ignite a fire of imagination in your child’s mind. Help your school get Bing in the Classroom and let your child search ad-free.
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Thanks Bing. Literacy is probably the most important skill that a child learns in school…it impacts every single other subject that they study.
I have heard lots of good things about Bing! Literacy is important and so is internet safety! Thank you Bing!
I would love to have a search engine that doesn’t have ads on it. It sounds great for the classroom.
I absolutely love this campaign. I hope to get more parents doing it for my sons school!
Such a great program! My boys’ school would love to have tablets. They use way outdated laptops and it makes things challenging.
I think bringing the literacy to the classroom is an important thing. Good job by Bing on that one 🙂
Digital literacy is so very important. As a community we must work to help children be digitally literate. This program with Bing is a great step in that direction.
I love Bing for this! It’s definitely important for our children.
I love this campaign! I am a HUGE education advocate and believe that this is the way to go. Kudos to Bing on being a leader!
It is so amazing to think about the things going on in my classroom and how they are now. Instead of memorizing things, you learn how to be resourceful and research them.