Digital Citizenship for Online Communication

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

How can we structure classroom expectations and guidelines for online communication in order to develop good digital citizenship skills in our students? When our school implemented a 1:1 laptop program, this became even more important. Come to this session to learn about and experience parts of three different lessons we used with middle school students to help them understand online sharing guidelines and the importance of creating a positive digital footprint. Bonus: Learn about Google Classroom in the process!

RESOURCES

1 – Introduction

2 – Digital Citizenship Agreement lesson

• Laptop BootCamp – Digital Citizenship Agreement (DCA) lesson

• DCA Think Pair Share activity

3 – Branding lesson

• Slides

4 – Commenting lesson

• How to write a good online comment – lesson plan

• Commenting Guidelines

5 – Conclusion

DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP RESOURCES

Next, let’s explore the free digital citizenship resources that Common Sense Education provides. You will need to create an account or sign in with your Google account to see the resources.

Common Sense Education Digital Citizenship Resources

The links below are also included on the site above, but I list them here as starting point for you.

• Scope and Sequence with links to PDF downloads of each lesson

• Digital Passport (grades 3-5)

• Digital Compass (grades 6-8)

• Digital Bytes (grades 9-12)

Other digital citizenship resources

• Be Internet Awesome – NEW free digital citizenship resource from Google

• Building Digital Resilience, Young Minds

• South West Grid for Learning – UK based

• The American Academy of Pediatrics Just Changed Their Guidelines On Kids and Screen Time