Digital+Citizenship

- Brianna
 * Share your resources in the area of digital citizenship! What is it? How do you use it? What are your thoughts on the issue? **

As I was looking through different resources encompassing digital citizenship, I came upon this wiki about the topic. I really like the image that the wiki shared on it's homepage. If you click the image below, it will send you to the wiki. There are pages for each grade level with links to resources to help teach internet safety and cyberbullying.



Check out this resource I found from there! Cyberbullying: Not Just Name Calling It's a story to help explain what cyberbullying is. To discuss digital citizenship then the discussion of cyberbullying goes hand in hand. -Christina

Megan's Digital Citizenship Resources
1. I love the pledge that is included [|here] (it's a PDF; I will be using something similar in my classroom!) 2. I'm super excited about [|this]because a) it's a livebinder! and b) it has so much to offer! It organizes ideas and resources by age/grade. 3. [|This] is adorable! It goes into all sorts of issues, including cyberbullying and online safety. It allows students to watch, try, and apply. Awesome.

I would like to share with you some easy reading on Digital Citizenship. These books have help with the understanding of how important it is for us as teachers to teach and/or incorporate digital citizenship into our curriculum when ever possible.
 * For your Reading Pleasure **

This book is easy to read. I read it in one night and I am a very slow reader. The stories that are provided give a clear understadnding of how easy it is to do something you think is so innocent on-line only to have it turn out to have a negative and sometimes life altering affect.This book is not something you would share with students because some of the stories are about college students and drinking, unless you have approval from your school. This book is great for teachers to read to get a clear understanding of the dangers the internet provides, especially for those that think the internet makes them invincible. Matt Invester writes this book with ease and at times with a sense of humor. A must read in my book. The book can be downloaded to your Kindle through [|Amazon].



This is another easy read, a couple of nights for me, the slow reader. Judge Tom Jacobs provides you with an understanding of your rights to free speech and privacy in the internet world; Teens and the Law. He expresses the concept of cyberbullying and what it is as well as what we all can do about it. Jacobs provides court cases involving teens and charges against them. He provides the outcome of the cases with the intriguing way of allowing the reader to agree or disagree with the case. This book gets the reader thinking about what cyberbullying is and the part we all play in it. This book can be downloaded to your Kindle through [|Amazon.]

This is a must read book to understand the 9 elements of digital citizenship. This book provides a clear understanding of how the 9 elements play a part in how we interact on-line. This is a book that teachers and students must read in order to understand the basic to digital citizenship. I would recommend that all teacher have this book available for all students to read. There are also lesson plans geared toward teaching teachers how to incorporate digital citizenship in their classroom but this should not deter from the value it would have toward student understanding. This is the first addition for this book. There are plans for the 2nd addition to be published shortly. And I foresee this becoming a book with many editions due to the ever changing use of the internet and our understanding of the power of the internet. This book can be downloaded to your Kindle through [|Amazon].


 * ENJOY - Kate **

"A **digital citizen** commonly refers to a person utilizing information technology [|information technology] (IT) in order to engage in society, politics, and government participation People characterizing themselves as digital citizens often use IT extensively, creating [|blogs], using [|social networks], and participating in web journalism sites.[|[][|2][|]] Although digital citizenship potentially begins when any child, teen, and/or adult signs up for an email address, posts pictures online, uses [|e-commerce] to buy merchandise online, and/or participates in //any// electronic function that is [|B2C] or [|B2B], the process of becoming a digital citizen goes beyond simple internet activity."
 * I found it interesting that wikipedia defined a digital citizen as ...**


 * While the definition recognizes that this begins in ones youth, I was surprised it did not mention education or teaching. Even though we use aspects such as blogs and social networks, the definition is not what I would have expected. I would have thought more emphasis would have been placed on communication, activism and learning.**

I'm always looking for quality professional development opportunities to bring to share with my prinicpal and teachers, so [|Common Sense Media's professional development section]of their website caught my attention. You need to be a registered educator in or order to access the training, but once you complete the log in information you can take their tutorial on your own for free. The site offers curriculum integration ideas, videos, and how to get parents involved in digital citizenship. The tagline for the teacher video is, " Learn why it's important to address the 21st century skill of digital citizenship, in which students connect, collaborate, and communicate responsibly and safely." - Lisa
 * While searching digital citizenship online, I came across a website that outlines 9 elements of digital citizenship and how to appropriately use technology. The Digital Citizen Website . **
 * -Brianna **
 * Great books! Summer is coming up and I will make sure one of them is on my summer reading list!-Sara **



At the beginning of the year in my classroom, the region's technology specialist came in and had a large discussion about digital citizenship. She talked about safe browsing, where she used a red light, green light system for sites. Next to all of our computers in the classroom I have a traffic light to remind students to visit safe sites. When viewing a site students need to ask themselve if it is a green site (good site to visit that is appropriate to their age), yellow site (one they should be cautious about, being sure to check with a teacher before viewing, and then a red site (a site they know if not appropriate for them). She did a few lessons where she showed them safe sites and compiled a list of sites that they view at home. Resources were sent home to parents explaining the tool to get students using the system at home. Also, she had students complete a worksheet where they had to read a description of a site and figure out if it was a red, yellow, or green. As I was going some further research on this topic, I came across a great site that has many lesson plans for grades K-12 on digital citizenship. I tried the A-B-C searching activity when we started the Literacy Project and the kids loved it. [|K-12 Lesson Plans]- Rosanne

I really liked the lessons for high school kids on livebinder.com because they review the elements of being digitally responsible while covering relatable concepts for adolescents to explore on their path to understanding being a digital citizen. Additionally, I loved this video on digital dossier, especially because I am guilty of already creating digital footprints for my own daughter before she entered this world. The video reviews the digital life a person has from the womb through after death. I think this would be a great initial video to introduce students, of any age group, to the idea of being a responsible digital citizen: Digital Dossier. -Felicia