According to Matt Ivester in his book lol…OMG: What Every Student Needs to Know about Online Reputation Management, Digital Citizenship and Cyberbullying, “Many of today’s students are finding themselves with a very real permanent record---one that reflects every poor decision of their youth, and is stored online forever.”
What is Digital Citizenship?
It is the combination of technical and social skills that enable a person to be successful and safe in the information age. Just like literacy and numeracy initiatives which provide people with the skills to ' participate in the work force, digital literacy has become an essential skill to be a confident, connected, and actively involved life long learner.'
It is the combination of technical and social skills that enable a person to be successful and safe in the information age. Just like literacy and numeracy initiatives which provide people with the skills to ' participate in the work force, digital literacy has become an essential skill to be a confident, connected, and actively involved life long learner.'
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Being a good cyber-citizen and being safe online needs to start at an early age, just as you would teach students "stranger danger" and being polite in real life. Digital citizenship means being a good citizen, and includes areas such as: copyright, fair use, public domain, netiquette (online manners), digital footprint, and more.
The following slide show provides a good overview of what does and doesn't work in promoting good digital citizenship.
Students need to become policy makers. If I could change one aspect of how digital citizenship is approached in this country it would be this: adults have to stop being the only people at the policy table when it comes to developing rules about cell phone use, Internet access, and social media, as well as all of the issues that await us in the future that we can’t even imagine right now. Students need to start developing their own perspectives and rules for their digital lifestyles. WATCH video below
Jason Ohler . . . digital citizenship is a living value
Questions to Promote Reflective Digital Citizenship in Students
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The 9 Features of A Good Digital Citizen Students Should Know About
Here is a new visual from ISTE on the concept of digital citizenship. The visual outlines some of the features characterizing ‘good’ digital citizens based on attributes of good...
Here is a new visual from ISTE on the concept of digital citizenship. The visual outlines some of the features characterizing ‘good’ digital citizens based on attributes of good...
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21st-Century Skills That Every Learner Needs Includes a plethora of topics, for example, Global Awareness, Social Responsibility, and Digital and Informational literacy
Are Kids Better at Teaching Digital Citizenship?
Turn Down the Dial on Cyberbullying and Online Cruelty
(9-10) | Common Sense Media
Mugged by a Mug Shot Online
What Should the Punishment Be For Acts of Cyberbullying? NYTimes
Educational Leadership:The Transition Years:Positive Digital Footprints
Improving Your Digital Footprint - Handout
The First Five Days of Digital Citizenship at Your School
Character Education for the Digital Age
21st-Century Skills That Every Learner Needs Includes a plethora of topics, for example, Global Awareness, Social Responsibility, and Digital and Informational literacy
Are Kids Better at Teaching Digital Citizenship?
Turn Down the Dial on Cyberbullying and Online Cruelty
(9-10) | Common Sense Media
Mugged by a Mug Shot Online
What Should the Punishment Be For Acts of Cyberbullying? NYTimes
Educational Leadership:The Transition Years:Positive Digital Footprints
Improving Your Digital Footprint - Handout
The First Five Days of Digital Citizenship at Your School
Character Education for the Digital Age
Free resources for teachers on cybersafety and cyber-bullying
Privacy Settings Tips for Teachers
- Facebook Privacy Settings - To avoid messy issues that can happen when students you have NOT "friended" gain access to your Facebook page through Pages you have "liked," check out these tips from Elk Grove USD's Two WebWatchers blog.
- Keep track of your digital footprint by setting up a Google Alert - Here's a link to a Youtube video to walk you through the steps.
Identity Theft This is a blog post from NetCredit which outlines the different ways identity theft can occur and includes additional sites with tips and information on how to avoid identity theft. This was contributed by a K-12 student who forwarded this site to me as part of their classwork on Internet Safety.
Digital Footprint
- Digital Passport - A free service from Common Sense Media that teaches students about digital literacy, safety, and other important lesson
- Private or Incognito Browsing Explained by Common Craft teaches viewers what the incognito or private browser function does, what it doesn't do, and the legitimate reasons for using it. www.freetech4techers.com
- Guide on Teaching Students about Digital Footprint Also look at Juan Enriquez video on the surprisingly permanent effects of digital sharing on our personal privacy. He shares insight from the ancient Greeks to help us deal with our new "digital tattoos."
- What is the impact of your Digital Footprint. Take this quiz and think about it.
- Trace My Shadow It is a digital footprint tool for helping students and teachers understand the types of information that you are leaving behind and the risks associated with it.
- Be Internet Awesome” curriculum is aimed mostly at seven- to twelve-year-olds, and is available free of charge to interested family members and educators. It provides kids with useful tips on different areas related to online safety. They include tips on how to responsibly share digital content and communicate with others, how to discern between what’s real and what’s fake, how to safeguard valuable information and protect personal privacy and many more. Besides these resources, Be Internet Awesome also provides a number of tools to engage kids in hands-on learning activities on online safety and digital citizenship. Interlaid, for instance, offers four challenging games geared towards introducing kids to the key lessons of digital safety. There is also a specific curriculum with a wide variety of lessons educators can download for free and use in classroom.
- A Guide to Digital Citizenship and Cyber-Laws courtesy of Girl Scout Sarah
- Digital Citizenship Adventures "Bottom line: i the world is listening to us when we are [on] the web, then let's make sure what we say is interesting, engaging, positive and representative of our better selves." This site includes great resources for searching for your digital footprint, and role playing about the possible ramifications of your footprint. How will it affect your college admissions or job opportunities?
- The Digital Citizenship Institute "Provides a community-driven approach to educating and empowering digital citizens to solve problems in local, global and digital communities."
- DigCit.us is the sharing curriculum and resources related to digital citizenship. The website includes resources for parents, resources for teachers, suggested questions for “dialog” among students and adults, and videos differentiated by three levels: primary, intermediate, and upper grades.
- Google Safety Center provides teachers, parents and public users with a plethora of materials, tools and tips to help you manage the security and privacy of your personal data and keep you safe while using the net. Visit this page to learn more about these resources. videos
- InCtrl: Teaching Digital Citizenship "In a digital world and information-sharing age, it can sometimes be hard to understand where privacy ends and what the real risks are. Everyone cares about their reputation, but many students don't know that what they do online can impact their digital footprint, permanently." This online lesson includes two videos, a printable handout, and notes for teachers
- Internet Society: Your Digital Footprints Matters "No matter what you do online, it's important you know what kind of trail you're leaving, and what the possible effects can be. While it's not possible to have zero footprints, the first steps toward reducing your digital footprint and managing your digital identity are not that hard." This excellent site features nine video tutorials starting with "What is a Digital Footprint?" You'll find them listed in the middle of the page, under the subhead "Watch These Online Tutorials."
Use google.com/alerts to alert you when people Google you.
- Discover What Your Digital Footprint Says About You- Resources and suggested activities for helping students consider the importance of their digital footprint.
- Interactive Presentation Templates to Teach Students about Digital Citizenship and Online Safety
- My Privacy Quiz - Excellent resource from the Canadian Commission on Privacy
- Video Digital footprint student activity for some inspiration.
- Digital Dossier, by youthandmedia.org. I find this video particularly effective because it is youth speaking to youth, which, my years as an educator tell me, is much more effective than adults preaching to youth.
- Your Digital Footprint May be Unflattering. This short, NBC affiliate news story conducts a real life search for graduating seniors who are concerned about their online presences. The results are rather amazing.
For all ages:
- You're Being Watched Infographic on what can happen with one click
- Digital Citizenship Curricular Framework PK-12This 32-page, downloadable PDF offers a free and simple approach to teaching digital citizenship. It is also aligned with several standards, including Common Core State Standards, CASEL (social-emotional learning), and ISTE (technology). As pictured above, the framework breaks digital citizenship into four strands. Each strand is associated with enduring understandings, overall indicators of success, grade level indicators, and sample guiding questions per grade level. There are also technology skills related to each strand and a list of aligned content standards.
- BeInternetAwesome Curriculum, is now available for free download. This resource is a fruit of collaboration between Google, the Net Safety Collaborative, and the Internet Safe Coalition. The goal is to provide young learners with a solid grounding in digital citizenship and help them become safer and responsible navigators of the web. The new curriculum features novel social-emotional learning activities, updated version of safety and security activities, and new lessons on search literacy. There are five main units and each of these units embeds a number of lessons. Each lesson is categorized either into Media Literacy or Social-Emotional Learning and is marked with a symbol to indicate grade-level recommendation.
Common Sense Media Lessons has a complete curriculum to use in your K-12 classroom. Great lessons, videos, and projects to use that can be searched by content area and grade levels. - A Guide to Digital Citizenship and Cyber-Laws courtesy of Girl Scout Sarah
- Private or Incognito Browsing Explained by Common Craft teaches viewers what the incognito or private browser function does, what it doesn't do, and the legitimate reasons for using it. www.freetech4techers.com
- Campfire is a virtual exchange program that leverages technology to enable meaningful cross-cultural dialogue and collaboration. Across history and cultures, campfires have brought together people of diverse backgrounds to share warmth and shelter, conversation and storytelling. Global Nomads Group takes this campfire concept global, giving youth worldwide a virtual space to exchange their experiences, bypassing the borders that prevent them from meeting in person. Using a project-based curriculum, students work together with a partner classroom from another country to explore global citizenship through investigation of the driving question,
- Global Digital Citizen Foundation Their five principles provide an excellent definition of what it means to be a “digital citizen.” And in addition, their six tenets for digital citizenship are fantastic practices for students. They also offer several digital citizenship agreements and a code of honor that I find to be fantastic tools. The primary and middle school agreements focus on three areas of responsibility: Looking After Yourself, Looking After Others, and Looking After Property. The high school agreement adds a bit more. Upper elementary students often like “fancy” wording in the Code of Honor. It gave us the opportunity to discuss the vocabulary and meaning together in relation to the digital citizenship agreement.
- Interactive Presentation Templates to Teach Students about Digital Citizenship and Online Safety
- CyberWise provides tools for parents, educators, and kids to help them understand and use new media tools safely at home and in the classroom. The site provides an extensive collection of videos and resources that explain current media tools and ways to use them. Guides include Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, Blogger, Prezi, Glogster, Facebook, Snapchat, Vine, and many others.
- Digital Citizenship Starter Kit for all Grades
- The Social Institute Their seven social standards. These standards are fantastic, relevant, and excellent for students in grades 4-12. If you create a free login, they also have a downloadable School Playbook: Social Media’s Role in Social-Emotional Health. This handout proposes five steps to support students in using social media and provides some informative statistics. It also promotes their #WinAtSocial social-emotional learning (SEL) curriculum, which incorporates social media, SEL, and digital citizenship. This is a relatively new web-based and gamified curriculum aligned with CASEL standards. To find out the cost, you have to contact them through the website. Here is a snapshot of their program at-a-glance:
- Nearpod Free Lessons The activities are linked directly into the post for you to add individually, or you can download the weekly plans. These include activities for grades K-12 on everything from the history of the internet to trustworthy sources to cyberbullying. If you use these lessons in your classroom, Nearpod asks for Tweets of pictures using the hashtag #DigCitwithNearpod.
- Digital Citizenship Wiki Provides resources by grade level
- Digital Driver's License as part of the OTIS initiative at the University of Kentucky. The Digital Driver's License, which was partly inspired by Mike Ribble and Gerard Bailey's ISTE publication Digital Citizenship in Schools, is an online tool that takes students through a series of hypothetical, real-world scenarios related to digital literacy and safety. The tool has been designed to encourage independence and caution among digital learners, much the same way a driver's ed course prepares drivers for the dangers of the road. Video
- My Privacy Quiz - Excellent resource from the Canadian Commission on Privacy
- ConnectSafely produces some excellent materials that you can use to teach students how to use social media responsibly.
- NetSmartz is a program of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. Kids, tweens, and teens each choose their own portal, as can parents and teachers. Each portal has its own assortment of educational videos and games. Topics include password safety, stranger danger, privacy, gossip, identify theft, sexting, inappropriate content, online predators, digital literacy, and cyber-bullying.
- Kings Canyon school district in California offers a list of digital citizenship lessons organized by grade level. The lessons include PowerPoint presentations, worksheets, and other materials.
- Childnet In the Childnet Hub you’ll find top tips, competitions, blogs and advice to help you to use the internet safely, responsibly and positively. You can also visit our get involved section to have your say on all things internet and new technology related!
- The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre hosts an excellent resource for helping students learn how to be responsible digital citizens. ThinkUKnow offers videos, games, and lessons for students ages five through sixteen. The site is divided into five sections; 5-7, 8-10, 11-16, a section for parents, and a section for teachers.
- Cyber-safety assists parents and educators in the fight to help keep children safe in a wired world. Cyber-Safety.com provides information, resources, vidoes and helpful links for parents, teachers, and children.
- The Naked Truth: Beware What You Share – Stats on cyberbullying and sexting - presented on an eye-catching poster
- Checklist for Creating Perfect Passwords - One of many great resources from digizen.com.
- Chat Danger This is a site all about the potential dangers on interactive services online like chat, IM, online games, email and on mobiles. Click on the icons below to read TRUE STORIES and find out how to chat SAFELY.
- Working to Resolve Identity Theft - Teen Center - From the Identity Theft Research Center, information, games, and quizzes for teens about how to protect their information online, recognize scams, and be smart about email and social networking. There is also a lesson plan for teachers available.
- Identity Theft - What Teens Need to Know - Short video from Highway Quest.
- Do You Really Have a Private Life Online? - Video animation - very informative
- 20 Tips to Protect Your Online Identity
- Digital Tatoo - What's Yours?
- Digital Dossier - YouTube
- How To Control Your Privacy Online is a fairly accessible interactive from The Wall Street Journal.
- Digital Education Revolution information for primary and secondary, as well as, parents.
- Microsoft: Digital Citizenship and Creative Content curriculum
- The Core Rules of Netiquette
- Media Smarts This site has resources for all grades in every aspect of digital citizenship!
- Download the Digital Citizenship Starter Kit from Edmodo & Common Sense Media | Edmodo – Safe Social Networking for Schools
- Google+ Safety Guide for Educators
- All you Need to Know about Cyber-bullying
- GCFLearnfree.org: two great sections: Internet Safety (for adults & older students) & Internet Safety for kids
- How to Teach Internet Safety K-6
- Free Tools about Internet Safety for teachers and Parents
Grades K-2
- Cybersmart Think Cybersmart for younger kids
- Welcome to Hector's World Information and games to go along with the Hector's World movies.
- Webonauts students can learn about safe online behaviors. When students have completed all of the Webonauts missions they will graduate from the Webonauts Academy. The educators tips page offers some practical suggestions for using Webonauts in the classroom.
- Through the Wild Web Woods is designed for students ages
- Interactive Presentation Templates to Teach Students about Digital Citizenship and Online Safety
seven through ten to learn how to spot danger on the Internet and what to do when they do spot danger on the Internet. The game is available in twenty-four languages. - Grades K-1 Digital Citizenship Lessons
- Grade 2 Digital Citizenship Lessons
- Digital Citizenship Wiki Provides resources by grade level
- Follow the Digital Trail Librarian Barbara Jizba shows K-2 students how the information they put online leaves a “digital trail” by having them analyze clues from fictional characters.
- Webonauts Internet Academy by PBS Kids helps students between eight and 10 years old to recognize the pitfalls of online activity. You can use the game to start a discussion about digital citizenship or to reinforce the points you make during classroom discussion.
- Younger elementary school students will love AT&T’s Safety Land. As they navigate around Safety Land, students answer questions about Internet safety and, if they answer the questions correctly, catch a cyber criminal and put him away.
- Life Skills with Garfield Garfield helps students with Cyberbullying, self-esteem, self-control, and peer pressure.
- Think U Know-Hector's World Great series of cartoon movies for young students to teach them about Internet Safety and Digtial Citizenship! I've used this with 1st and 2nd grade.
- Disney Surf Swell Island this version from Australia still works! This is a game that cover Internet t Safety and Digital Citizenship. Certificate at the end. Made for younger students, but the older students have fun with it--yes, they still love the certificate at the end!
- Media Smarts cute adventure game with questions and answers. Kids like it, and has good basic information for Internet Safety.
http://mediasmarts.ca/game/privacy-pirates-interactive-unit-online-privacy-ages-7-9 - Clicky's Quest
- Clicky’s Web World–What to do
- Think U Know-Lee & Kim's Adventure this 8 minute animation introduces Lee & Kim, a brother and sister navigating the online world with the help of their trusted superhero friend SID! With his super powers, SID shows them how to keep themselves safe while having fun online. Based around 4 simple tips for children to remember and a song, the cartoon aims to teach children how to protect themselves and others around them.
- Think U Know 5-7 This area has the two movies (see above) and more for students ages 5-7
- Webville Outlaws-Internet Safety
- Lee And Kim's Adventures Information and games to go along with the Lee and Kim movies.
- Disney Don't be in the Dark When it Comes to Safe Surfing (under 10)
Grades 3-5
Communication & Collaboration InCtrl is matched to Common Core State Standards
- AT&T Safetyland. Game on Digital Citizenship
- Digital Passport is published by Common Sense Media, a non-profit organization that promotes digital citizenship. Although full access requires free teacher registration, Digital Passport does offer samplepreview games. Designed for grades three to five, each of the five modules includes video and an interactive game, and they take about forty-five minutes to complete. Topics covered are cellphone usage, online messaging, cyber-bullying, effective search, and creative mash-ups.
- Be Awesome Internet also offers a number of interesting tools to use with students. For instance, Interland is a collection of four online adventure games kids can play to help them practice key elements of digital safety. There is also a curriculum designed specifically for educators. It features the required tools and methods for teaching the fundamentals of digital safety. ‘The materials developed by Google in partnership with iKeepSafe enable educators to bring the most critical teachings—and the excitement of Interland—into the classroom. Included in the curriculum are lesson plans for the five topics, with activities and worksheets.
- Webonauts students can learn about safe online behaviors. When students have completed all of the Webonauts missions they will graduate from the Webonauts Academy. The educators tips page offers some practical suggestions for using Webonauts in the classroom
- Through the Wild Web Woods is designed for students ages
seven through ten to learn how to spot danger on the Internet and what to do when they do spot danger on the Internet. The game is available in twenty-four languages. - Digital Citizenship Wiki Provides resources by grade level
- Grade 4 Digital Citizenship Lessons
- Grade 3 Digital Citizenship Lessons
- Grade 5 Digital Citizenship Lessons
- Cybersmart Think Cybersmart for kids. Help stop Cyberbullying
- AT&T's Safety Land is a game through which kids learn and practice recognizing danger on the Internet. The game is set in the city of "Safety Land." As students navigate from building to building in Safety Land they are confronted with a series of scenarios and questions to respond to. If they respond correctly to each scenario the cyber criminal and send him to the Safety Land jail. Students who send the cyber criminal to Safety Land jail receive a certificate that they
- Teach Key Digital Citizenship Concepts with Digital Passport™Digital Passport™, Common Sense Media’s newest interactive curricular tool, helps elementary educators arm students with crucial digital literacy and citizenship skills through fun, video-rich learning modules. Check out Digital Passport™ Digital Passport for Kids - free Played by over 300,000 kids in schools across the US, Digital Passport is now available on your personal device. The games and videos inside teach kids from 7-11 the essentials for staying safe online not only on laptops and computers but on mobile devices too. On Digital Passport, kids will find their favorite kinds of games and activities like platform games, tools for creating digital mashups, and other fast-paced gobble 'em up games, all geared toward teaching them important lessons about digital life.
- Webonauts Internet Academy by PBS Kids helps students between eight and 10 years old to recognize the pitfalls of online activity. You can use the game to start a discussion about digital citizenship or to reinforce the points you make during classroom discussion.
- Younger elementary school students will love AT&T’s Safety Land. As they navigate around Safety Land, students answer questions about Internet safety and, if they answer the questions correctly, catch a cyber criminal and put him away.
- InCtrl, a series of free, standards-based lessons that effectively teaches key digital citizenship concepts such as:
Communication & Collaboration InCtrl is matched to Common Core State Standards
- Disney Surf Swell Island this version from Australia still works! This is a game that cover Internet Safety and Digital Citizenship. Certificate at the end. Made for younger students, but the older students have fun with it--yes, they still love the certificate at the end!
- Webonauts is a PBS game for eight- to ten-year olds exploring "what it means to be a citizen in a web-infused‚ information-rich world. It is an engaging experience on its own but becomes all the more powerful when parents and teachers use game play as a springboard for conversations about media literacy and citizenship in the 21st Century." Imagine yourself a new recruit to the Webonauts Internet Academy on a space mission to the planet Bambu. While role-playing, you'll learn about citizenship, identity, privacy, credibility and web safety.
- Hoax or Not Webquest on searching and understanding websites--is it a hoax?
- Museum of Hoaxes Clues on detecting doctored pictures online
- Disney Don't be in the Dark When it Comes to Safe Surfing (under 10)
Disney Don't be in the Dark When it Comes to Safe Surfing (over 10) - NetSmartz Kids: The Internet Safety Game Two versions: easy or hard.
- NetSmartz Kids: Other games for Internet Safety
- Netsmartz Great information for all age groups and lessons for classes.
- Mediasmarts adventure game with questions and answers. Kids like it, and has good basic information for Internet Safety.
- Privacy Playground-The first adventure of the 3 Little Pigs In this game, designed for ages 8-10, the CyberPigs play on their favourite website and encounter marketing ploys, spam and a close encounter with a not-too-friendly wolf. The purpose of the game is to teach kids how to spot online marketing strategies, protect their personal information and avoid online predators. The accompanying Teacher's Guide explains how to play the game, gives background information on the issues of online marketing, spam and children's privacy and provides activities and handouts for classroom use.
- Privacy Playground-The second adventure of the 3 Little Pigs In this sequel to Privacy Playground, for ages 9-12, the three CyberPigs learn some important lessons about authenticating online information and observing rules of netiquette. They also learn how to distinguish between fact and opinion and how to recognize bias and harmful stereotyping in online content. As Les, Mo and Lil discover, "just because it's on the Internet, doesn't mean it's true." The accompanying Teacher's Guide explains how to play the game, gives background information on the issues of authenticating online content, stereotyping and cyberbullying and children's provide activities and handouts for classroom use.
- Think U Know Ages 8-10 This area has a cybercafe and games for students ages 8-10. For example, the Star Riders games is an arcade game, but you answer questions, as well. Fun and informative.
- Cyber Tree House Learn about digital citizenship and safety in an interesting, interactive and'' informative way with Cyber Tree House. Learn information through games, videos and puzzles. Games include a sliding puzzle, Internet images, memory match-up, a cyber knowledge quiz, and more.
- Disney Surf Swell Island this version from Australia still works! This is a game that cover Internet t Safety and Digital Citizenship. Certificate at the end. Made for younger students, but the older students have fun with it--yes, they still love the certificate at the end!
- PBS Kids Webonauts Internet Academy is a web original game for PBS KIDS GO! that gives kids 8- to 10-year-old an opportunity to have some fun while exploring what it means to be a citizen in a web-infused‚ information-rich world. It is an engaging experience on its own but becomes all the more powerful when parents and teachers use game play as a springboard for conversations about media literacy and citizenship in the 21st Century.
Grades 6-8
- Allies and Aliens: A Mission in Critical Thinking This interactive module for Grades 7 and 8 is designed to increase students’ ability to recognize bias, prejudice and hate propaganda on the Internet and in other media. In Allies and Aliens students become agents on an intergalactic mission for earth. As students interact with alien characters and visit websites on the "Galactic Web", they come across varying degrees of prejudice and discrimination.
- Digital Literacy Library provides learning resources made available under a Creative Commons license by Youth and Media at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. The lesson modules are designed to help young people develop skills needed to navigate the digital world, critically consume information, and responsibly produce and share content. The interactive lessons involve group discussions, activities, quizzes, and games that have been built in consultation with teens.
- Cyber Civics digital citizenship and literacy curriculum with resources.
- interactive for middle school students. Digital Compass examines the twists and turns of everyday digital life and gives kids the power to explore how decisions made online can affect their future. Digital Compass in action video. Visit www.digitalcompass.org.
- A Thin Line is a digital safety education resource produced by MTV in collaboration with other media partners. The purpose of the site is to educate teenagers and young adults about the possible repercussions of their digital activities. A Thin Line offers a series of fact sheets about topics like sexting, digital spying, and excessive text messaging and instant messaging. A Thin Line gives students advice on how to recognize those behaviors, the dangers of those behaviors, and how to protect your digital identity. Students can also take a short quiz to practice identifying risky digital
- Own Your Own Space is a free ebook designed to educate tweens and teens about protecting themselves and their stuff online. This ebook isn't a fluffy, general over viewbook. Each chapter goes into great detail explaining the technical threats that students’ computers face online as well as the personal threats to data that students can face online. For example, in the first chapter, students learn about the different types of malware and the importance of installing security patches to prevent malware infections. www.freetech4teachers.com
- Seven Digital Deadly Sins is an interactive story produced by theNational Film Board of Canada. The story contains seven chapters each containing short videos, essays, and polls. The videos and essays tell the stories of people suffering from digital sins like greed (illegally downloading media) and wrath (cyberbullying). After reading or watching the stories viewers can vote on questions about what they would do in similar situations. Seven Digital Deadly Sins does deal with some content, mostly in the section on lust, that you will want to screen before deciding if it is appropriate for the students in your classroom. www.freeech4teachers.com
- Digital Citizenship Wiki Provides resources by grade level
- Grade 6 Digital Citizenship Lessons
- Grade 8 Digital Citizenship Lessons
- Digital Compass and Technology Driver’s License Activities
- Digital Bytes, a tool that teaches teens digital citizenship through student-directed, media-rich activities that tackle real-world dilemmas. Teens learn from the experiences of their peers then create collaborative projects that voice their ideas for making smart, safe choices online.
- Guided Lessons in Digital Citizenship
- Common Sense Media: Trillion-Dollar Footprint These teaching materials for grades six to eight include plenty of resources for kids including the main video lesson, downloadable student packets, and Family Tip Sheets. Common Sense Media also has materials for other age groups. Just search "digital footprint" in the search box in the upper right-hand corner.
- A Thin Line is a digital safety education resource produced by MTV in collaboration with other media partners. The purpose of the site is to educate teenagers and young adults about the possible repercussions of their digital activities. A Thin Line offers a series of fact sheets about topics like sexting, digital spying, and excessive text messaging and instant messaging. A Thin Line gives students advice on how to recognize those behaviors, the dangers of those behaviors, and how to protect your digital identity. Students can also take a short quiz to practice identifying risky digital behaviors.
- Own Your Space is a free ebook designed to educate tweens and teens about protecting themselves and their stuff online. This ebook isn't a fluffy, general overview book. Each chapter goes into great detail explaining the technical threats that students' computers face online as well as the personal threats to data that students can face online. For example, in the first chapter students learn about different types of malware and the importance of installing security patches to prevent malware infections. The fourteenth chapter explains the differences between secured and unsecured wireless networks, the potential dangers of an unsecured network, and how to lock‐down a network. Google has a good set of lesson plans on digital citizenship and digital literacy
- Google has a good set of lesson plans on digital citizenship and digital literacy
that middle school teachers should take a look at. The lesson plans are divided into three sections; becoming a digital sleuth, managing digital footprints, and identifying online tricks and scams. These digital citizenship lessons are part of Google's Good to Know site. Good to Know is an excellent site on which you can find good and clear explanations of web basics. The detailed lesson plans can be saved in your Google Drive account. Even if you don't use the entire lessons as they were written, they're still worth saving in Google Drive to refer to as you build your own digital citizenship lesson plans. - Digizen It welcomes visitors with this appealing description of its main goal — the website “shares specific advice and resources on issues such as social networking and cyberbullying and how these relate to and affect their own and other people’s online experiences and behaviors Digizen movie movie on cyber-bullying. Also check the sidebar with viewpoints of the other characters. Great for classroom discussion.
- ThinkB4U is a series of web safety videos and tutorials from Google and its partners. Using the "choose your own adventure" aspect of YouTube video editing, ThinkB4U offers interactive videos to educate viewers about things like protecting online reputations, avoiding scams, research and critical thinking, and responsible text messaging. The sections include short videos about the topics, a short written lesson, and some interactive games on the topics of responsible use of the Internet and of cell phones. The Educators' section of ThinkB4U offers lesson plans from Common Sense Media and the National Consumer League. There are lesson plans designed for elementary school, middle school, and high school use.
- Seven Digital Deadly Sins is an interactive story produced by the National Film Board of Canada. The story contains seven chapters each containing short videos, essays, and polls. The videos and essays tell the stories of people suffering from digital sins like greed (illegally downloading media) and wrath (cyberbullying). After reading or watching the stories viewers can vote on questions about what they would do in similar situations. Seven Digital Deadly Sins does deal with some content, mostly in the section on lust, that you will want to screen before deciding if it is appropriate for the students in your classroom.
- Five Good Resources for Teaching Digital Citizenship to Middle School and High School Students
- Free Digital Citizenship Lesson Plans for Middle School Students
- Creative Commons teach students have to find information that is legally safe to use and does not violate copyright laws.
- Google Digital Literacy and Citizenship Curriculum is a great resource from Google to help teachers educate their students on the importance of digital citizenship and the different ways and strategies to use to keep themselves safe while using the net. This work is a fruit of a partnership between Google security team and experts from iKeepsafe and it provides some interesting lesson plans that teachers can use in their classrooms.
- YouTube has devised an interactive curriculum to help educate students, aged 13–17, on topics such as how to report content on YouTube, how to protect their privacy online, how to be responsible YouTube community members and how to be responsible digital citizens. The purpose of the site is to help students and educators gain useful skills and a holistic understanding about responsible digital citizenship, not only on YouTube, but also in all online activity.
- Cybersmart Think Cybersmart for kids. Help stop Cyberbullying
- Cybersmart Think Cybersmart for teens.
- Hoax or Not Webquest on searching and understanding websites--is it a hoax?
- Museum of Hoaxes Clues on detecting doctored pictures online
- A Thin Line provides advice to teens so they can recognize unsafe online behaviors. This website, produced by MTV, provides young adults with fact sheets, videos, and discussions on several online safety issues.
- Jo Cool or Jo Fool (Grades 6-8) This interactive online module takes students through a CyberTour of twelve mock websites to test their savvy surfing skills. It includes a 20-question online quiz that provides additional food for thought about the Web issues that the brother and sister team Josie and Joseph Cool encounter. Jo Cool or Jo Fool is also accompanied by an extensive Teacher's Guide
- Top Secret! (Grades 6-8) This interactive narrated tutorial teaches students about the benefits and drawbacks of sharing information online. Students give their opinion about what the characters in the story should do about their privacy dilemmas, from posting photos to buying music online, and they receive feedback on their responses as the story unfolds.
- Think U Know Ages 11-16 Films and games for students ages 11-16
Grades 9-12
- Own Your Space: Online Reputation That Counts - Download a very comprehensive student guide from Microsoft on all phases of building and protecting a digital footprint
- Stanford University Libraries' Copyright & Fair Use guide. This guide should be bookmarked by anyone who has questions about copyright and fair use. The guide covers everything from the basics of copyright to the nuances of fair use. There is even a section devoted to academic fair use that should be of particular interest to teachers who publish lessons online. In the guide you will find templates for requesting permission to use copyrighted works. Use the template if you're in doubt about whether or not you can use someone else's work. And if you're looking to publish on your own website or blog, pay attention to the section titled Websites: Five Ways to Stay Out of Trouble. (www.freetech4teachers.com )
Common Sense Media Lessons has a complete curriculum to use in your K-12 classroom. Great lessons, videos, and projects to use. - Grades 9-12 Digital Citizenship Lessons
- Digital Literacy Library provides learning resources made available under a Creative Commons license by Youth and Media at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. The lesson modules are designed to help young people develop skills needed to navigate the digital world, critically consume information, and responsibly produce and share content. The interactive lessons involve group discussions, activities, quizzes, and games that have been built in consultation with teens.
- Digital Citizenship Wiki Provides resources by grade level
- Own Your Own Space is a free ebook designed to educate tweens and teens about protecting themselves and their stuff online. This ebook isn't a fluffy, general over viewbook. Each chapter goes into great detail explaining the technical threats that students’ computers face online as well as the personal threats to data that students can face online. For example, in the first chapter, students learn about the different types of malware and the importance of installing security patches to prevent malware infections. www.freetech4teachers.com
- Seven Digital Deadly Sins is an interactive story produced by theNational Film Board of Canada. The story contains seven chapters each containing short videos, essays, and polls. The videos and essays tell the stories of people suffering from digital sins like greed (illegally downloading media) and wrath (cyberbullying). After reading or watching the stories viewers can vote on questions about what they would do in similar situations. Seven Digital Deadly Sins does deal with some content, mostly in the section on lust, that you will want to screen before deciding if it is appropriate for the students in your classroom. www.freeech4teachers.com
- Guided Lessons in Digital Citizenship
- OnGuardOnline.gov is a project of the US government to help citizens stay safe online. This resource page lists videos, tutorials and thirteen games. These are not specifically created for children, but are appropriate for teens. Topics include laptop security, spyware, cyber crime, spam, and phishing. In the left-hand vertical menu, there is also a link for parents on protecting kids online.
- A Thin Line is a digital safety education resource produced by MTV in collaboration with other media partners. The purpose of the site is to educate teenagers and young adults about the possible repercussions of their digital activities. A Thin Line offers a series of fact sheets about topics like sexting, digital spying, and excessive text messaging and instant messaging. A Thin Line gives students advice on how to recognize those behaviors, the dangers of those behaviors, and how to protect your digital identity. Students can also take a short quiz to practice identifying risky digital
- Google Digital Literacy and Citizenship Curriculum is a great resource from Google to help teachers educate their students on the importance of digital citizenship and the different ways and strategies to use to keep themselves safe while using the net. This work is a fruit of a partnership between Google security team and experts from iKeepsafe and it provides some interesting lesson plans that teachers can use in their classrooms. \
- Digizen made the cut. It welcomes visitors with this appealing description of its main goal — the website “shares specific advice and resources on issues such as social networking and cyberbullying and how these relate to and affect their own and other people’s online experiences and behaviors Digizen movie movie on cyber-bullying. Also check the sidebar with viewpoints of the other characters. Great for classroom discussions.
- Creative Commons teach students have to find information that is legally safe to use and does not violate copyright laws
- Digiteen Project Global Digital Citizenship Collaboration and Education
- YouTube has devised an interactive curriculum to help educate students, aged 13–17, on topics such as how to report content on YouTube, how to protect their privacy online, how to be responsible YouTube community members and how to be responsible digital citizens. The purpose of the site is to help students and educators gain useful skills and a holistic understanding about responsible digital citizenship, not only on YouTube, but also in all online activity.
- MyWorld: A digitial literacy tutorial for secondary students This tutorial aims to teach students essential digital literacy skills through simulating their favorite online experiences. The tutorial is divided into four chapters, each of which focuses on a particular aspect of digital literacy: researching and authenticating online information, managing privacy and reputation, dealing with online relationships and using digital media in an ethical manner.
- Think U Know Ages 11-16Films and games for students ages 11-16
- A Thin Line provides advice to teens so they can recognize unsafe online behaviors. This website, produced by MTV, provides young adults with fact sheets, videos, and discussions on several online safety issues.
Student Safe Search Engines see Information Literacy
Quietube is a handy little browser extension that removes all the clutter from YouTube allowing you to view only your selected video. Quietube removes all advertising, sidebar content, comments, and ratings. Installing Quietube requires nothing more than dragging the Quietube button to your toolbar.
MOVIES (free)
- Netsmirtz kids Movies:
- Bad Netiquette Stinks
- Be Safer Online
- Be Safer going to and from school
- The Password Rap-key to making a secure password
- The Princess Who Knew How to UYN!
- Lesson in Instant Messaging
- Chatting: A lesson in Personal Safety
- A Lesson in Computer Viruses
- Don't Steal That Song
- Tell A Trusted Adult
- Friend or Fake: Keyan’s new online friend wants to meet face-to-face, but is this is a good idea? Tad and Slick don’t think so!
- Mike-tosis Secret Crush + Text Message = Big Trouble. Will Allie be able to stop the text message trail before it gets to Mike Chang?
- Post-to-be-Private: your page to private is smart and a step in the right direction -- but who's on your friends list? Don't give just anyone access to your world.
- Profile Penalty Everything on your profile represents who you are. What does yours say about you?
- Digizen movie movie on cyber-bullying. Also check the sidebar with viewpoints of the other characters. Great for classroom discussion.
- Digital Dossier - YouTube
- Mr. Young's Bouncy "A" - Internet Safety VideosCybersmart Think Cybersmart for kids
- Steering Clear of Cyber Tricks
- Cybersmart Think Cybersmart for teens. What you do online can affect your whole world.
- Learning Lab featuring Garfield Cyberbullying
- Faux Paw's Adventures on the Internet. Faux Paw learns her lesson on Internet Safety.
- Faux Paw goes to the Games
- Faux Paw Meets the First Lady
- Faux Paw and the Dangerous Download
- Internet Safety for kids K-3
- My Online Neighborhood
- NetSmartzKids ebook Delivery for Webster
- Professor Garfield Internet Safety Part 1 & Professor Garfield Internet Safety Part 2
- Think U Know-Hector's World series of cartoon movies for young students to teach them about Internet Safety and Digtial Citizenship! I've used this with 1st and 2nd grade.
- Think U Know 5-7 This area has the two movies (see above) and more for students ages 5-7
- Think U Know Ages 11-16 Films and games for students ages 11-16
- Brainpopjr Internet safety movie for pre-school to grade 2. Has quiz and activities. (free)
- Brainpop cyberbullying movie Moby gets cyberbullied. Describes cyberbullying without preaching. (free)
- Brainpop netiquette movie that describes digital etiquette (netiquette) in simple terms.(free)
- Privacy Playground: The First Adventure of the Three CyberPigs the CyberPigs play on their favourite website and encounter marketing ploys, spam and a close encounter with a not-too-friendly wolf. The purpose of the game is to teach kids how to spot online marketing strategies, protect their personal information and avoid online predators.
- CyberSense and Nonsense: The Second Adventure of The Three CyberPigs (sequel) the three CyberPigs learn some important lessons about authenticating online information and observing rules of netiquette. They also learn how to distinguish between fact and opinion and how to recognize bias and harmful stereotyping in online content. As Les, Mo and Lil discover, "just because it's on the Internet, doesn't mean it's true."
Movies for older students: Minnesota Internet Crimes Against Children (on MySpace)
- "Everyone Knows Your Name" Don't post anything on-line that you wouldn't want the whole world to see. (Favorite)
- Privacy and Reputation Video Stories
- "Bulletin Board" Don't post anything on-line that you wouldn't want the entire world to see.
- "Safe Side" A catchy song about how to be safer on-line
- "Post Private" A comic book rendition of posting things on-line and how they are not private.
- "Know the Rules" An introduction to NetSmartz and the rules for staying safe while on-line
- "Terrible Text " A comic animation of how texting can get out of control
- "Julie's Journey" A true story in Julie's own words
- "You Can't Take it Back!" student discusses how once you post something on-line that you can't take it back
- "Broken Friendship" What happens when you share your password with someone???
- "Amy's Choice" A true story in Amy's own words
- "Promises" What predators might promise you
- "Places" Where might you fine predators????
- "Feathers" The story of the feathers of the wind
- "Evidence Bag" Think crime scenes are just for murders???
Generic Project ideas for students to try:
- Create a picture that explains what they learned
- Create a poster or Glog (can have a contest!)
- Use Voki to have the students describe what they learned
- Have students create a skit on what they learned, how it affects them, and how it affects others.
- Use blabberize
- Create a comic
- Use Voicethread
- Roleplay
- Create a movie
- Create paper slides
- Create a podcast
- Create a Prezi
- Create a Webquest
- Teach younger students
Cyberbullying
- What is cyberbullying?
- Are you a cyberbullying Quiz?
- Parents and Teachers Guide to Cyberbullying: Includes advice, reporting, videos
- How to prevent cyberbullying
- If you are cyberbullied
- Sexting and cyberbullying
- Examples of cyberbullying
- Preteens. Middle School Confidential 1 and 2 can help tweens learn to navigate issues like bullying in a healthy way.
- Teens. Scenarios USA tackles tough issues like bullying through thoughtful short films written by teenagers.
Class Videos
videos From Google
Think before you share
Protect your stuff
Know and use your settings
Avoid scams
Be positive
Think before you share
Protect your stuff
Know and use your settings
Avoid scams
Be positive
Copyright and Fair Use
Copyright Song
Sherry Turkle - Connected but Not Alone