Tool 10 - Underneath it All - Digital Citizenship

I think the students need to know that there are appropriate ways to address or post a comment on blogs and how to post a negative comment without being offensive. They also need to be reminded about appropriate language used in messages and limiting any personal information when dealing with on line sources. To help inform the students about digital citizenship, I would start with a conversation about what it is means, and then I would make connections to their lives. I would also show some videos like "Cool Cat Teacher” advice when she discussed that digital citizenship was helping the students to live safely and civilly in the digital world. BrainPop had some nice videos about blogging and email and chats. I think it is important to continue to discuss with your students about how to be safe and participate in the tech world. Copyright with CyberBee is a great resource for helping the students understand the rules for using information, images, and videos from the internet. Digizen also has a good video about digital citizenship. All of these videos are on the Power to Learn site from the district. Digital citizenship is a topic that must be revisited often in the classroom.

It might be helpful to discuss this topic during the school open house.