Curated Digital Citizenship Resources

Common Sense-https://www.commonsense.org/education/digital-citizenship
This provides resources for teachers to access and share with their students. The media can be applied to a K-12 classroom and can be applied through different grade levels as needed.

Edutopia-https://www.edutopia.org/blog/digital-citizenship-need-to-know-vicki-davis
This resource is great for teaching the 9 Key P's of digital citizenship. This includes teaching privacy of passwords, sensitive information, and photographs. 

Common Sense-https://www.commonsense.org/education/digital-citizenship/lesson/whos-looking-at-your-digital-footprint
This resource discusses digital footprints and teaching students to be aware of what they post on the internet. This is more applicable at an older age but the same ideas can be pulled from to teach at an elementary level.

Schoology-https://www.schoology.com/blog/digital-citizenship-elements-lessons-and-importance-0

This resource also touches on digital citizenship. This includes access, etiquette, law, and security to name a few.

https://www.digitalcitizenship.net/

This is another resource that teaches digital citizenship and can go hand in hand with teaching the nine elements of digital citizenship. This is more similar to the Schoology website. There is also a chart that can be used to teach levels of digital citizenship and how to improve it. 

ISTE-https://www.iste.org/learn/digital-citizenship
The last resource discusses the nature of digital citizenship and how it applies to education. This begins to provide extra examples that are unique. This also provides the DO's of digital citizenship that can be used for students who need to hear things positively and not negatively. 

Common Sense-https://www.commonsense.org/education/digital-citizenship
This provides many different resources for instructors to look at and share with their students. They have options for students K-12 that can be applied to the classroom. Some of the ideas from different grade levels can also be used as a basis for a lesson for a different group of students. 
Edutopia-https://www.edutopia.org/blog/digital-citizenship-need-to-know-vicki-davis
This website provides students with information about the 9 Key Ps of digital citizenship. This includes ideas about making a secure password, keeping private information private, not sharing photographs that shouldn't be shared, asking about or decision if permission is given, and thinking about what they post. 
Common Sense-https://www.commonsense.org/education/digital-citizenship/lesson/whos-looking-at-your-digital-footprint
This link is talking about a digital footprint and how students need to be aware that everything they post can be visible by anyone. Even if an account is private or if a post is deleted, someone at some time will be able to see those things that they don't want them to see. This lesson is for juniors and is good for them to talk about as they are applying for college and jobs. 
Schoology-https://www.schoology.com/blog/digital-citizenship-elements-lessons-and-importance-0
This website provides nine more ideas about digital citizenship that are a little bit different than those that were on the other website. These include Access, Commerce, Community and Collaboration, Etiquette, Fluency, Health and Wellness, Law, Rights and Responsibilities, and Security and Privacy. 
https://www.digitalcitizenship.net/
This website teaches all about digital citizenship and covers the topic in many different ways. This website also provides nine elements of digital citizenship but these are the same as the ones that were provided on the schoology website. They shared a progression chart that talks about the level of digital citizenship that a person is at and how they can progress to improve that even more. 
ISTE-https://www.iste.org/learn/digital-citizenship
This last link talks about how Digital Citizenship applies to the field of education and gives additional examples and ideas that were not found on the other pages. Rather than so many negatives, this page gives some DO's for students who don't do as well being told no. These include: using technology to make the community better, engaging respectfully with people who have different beliefs than you, using technology to make your voice heard by public leaders and to shape public policy, and determining the validity of online sources of information

https://www.dfinow.org/?gclid=Cj0KCQiA8dH-BRD_ARIsAC24umbovZur8nCF9ZTgmhlF7RzymcGA5in667XlVEuDynXx0_3QSXsk1qUaAp8cEALw_wcB
This resource provides lessons on digital citizenships for students. Teachers and students can use these lessons for free to implement into the curriculum. This resource would also be helpful for parents to teach digital citizenship at home. Students are online more due to the pandemic, and parents have the unique opportunity to play a large role in their students direct education.

https://info.nationalonlinesafety.com/international-school-enquiry?utm_term=%2Bdigital%20%2Bcitizenship&utm_campaign=International+Tailored+-+British+Speaking&utm_source=adwords&utm_medium=ppc&hsa_acc=1751242191&hsa_cam=11725901655&hsa_grp=119191771132&hsa_ad=482880962392&hsa_src=g&hsa_tgt=kwd-389024328887&hsa_kw=%2Bdigital%20%2Bcitizenship&hsa_mt=b&hsa_net=adwords&hsa_ver=3&gclid=Cj0KCQiA8dH-BRD_ARIsAC24umbA0tqnWfLitehiwwPf-_77kiXdpccVmz6eQAx60K-yaVGGaAxO8osaAqThEALw_wcB
This resource would be a great resource to discuss with the administration at your school. It is an online safety hub for schools. The whole school would have access to online safety programs, interactive courses, and educational packets. This resource would allow an entire school to take next steps in digital citizenship.

https://www.commonsense.org/education/digital-citizenship/curriculum?grades=9%2C10%2C11%2C12
This resources provides a platform with many different short lessons for students on digital citizenship. It allows students to choose specific topics that they may feel they need more knowledge of. This resource can be used in the classroom as a group assignment or an individual one. Teachers can create activities to follow each lesson as a way to assess their understanding.

https://beinternetawesome.withgoogle.com/en_us/
This resource allows students to play interactive games, follow digital citizenship curriculum, and it gives parents a platform for parents to get the entire family on the same page about digital citizenship. Google is a very common and easy to use resource for students, so they would be learning about digital citizenship on a platform that they are already familiar with.

https://sos.fbi.gov/en/
This resource is given to teachers by the FBI. It is a great resource for middle school aged students to get involves with their learning about digital citizenship. Teachers download the step-by-step guides based on the age group of their students, and students can follow along with the curriculum. 

https://everfi.com/courses/k-12/digital-literacy-wellness-safety/
This resource provides another digital citizenship curriculum for teachers and students. This resource is for secondary aged students and it relates the content back to the ISTE Standards. These resources are also at no cost to teachers, students, or parents, so parents can implement this curriculum in their house on their own. This allows students to be a digital citizen online at home and at school.

1. Common Sense-https://www.commonsense.org/education/digital-citizenship
This resource provides free lessons for those in elementary, middle, and high school levels. Specifically within K-2, it seems as if it has "pillars" of main areas that is focused on with students. It also breaks it apart within Kindergarten, first, and second grade.
2. InCtrl-https://teachinctrl.org/
This resource is similar to Common Sense but it focuses within fourth to eighth grade. The resource engages with students through inquiry based activities, and gives opportunities where students can collaborate in class together.
3. iKeepSafe- https://ikeepsafe.org/google-digital-literacy-citizenship-curriculum/
iKeepSafe provides a curriculum for teachers and families to keep safe online. It is organized by classes instead of modules. It provides videos and handouts.
4. Cyberwise Application (can be found in the app store, etc.)
Students (specifically within middle school) can play games, watch videos, and take quizzes that focus on digital citizenship, and being on the internet.
5. Net Smartz- https://www.missingkids.org/NetSmartz
This resource let's students learn digital citizenship while being safe, playing games, and more.
6. Digizen- https://www.digizen.org/
This resource focuses digital citizenship, and how parents and kids can be safe with tips and more.

• https://www.commonsense.org/education/digital-citizenship/curriculum?grades=k%2C1%2C2 ;

This website has lesson plans, videos, and diagrams for children to look at and learn. As the teacher you can teach each of the lessons. There is a section for parents, educators, and advocates.

• https://www.cyberwise.org/digital-citizenship-games
  

This website has a tab full of information of digital citizenship and games the kids can play learning about it DC. It also has a cute little Digital cyber academy the kids can go through to learn more. 

• https://www.edutopia.org/topic/digital-citizenship

This is just an article explaining more about digital citizenship. You can learn about online safety, cyberbullying, netiquette, privacy, copyright, and the norms of appropriate, responsible behavior to help young people consider their digital footprint.  

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Play safe online with Mickey It’s never too early to start making smart choices online. This is a video where Mickey Mouse talks about how families can play games, build skills, and practice together when it comes to using the internet.

•   https://www.brainpop.com/technology/digitalcitizenship/onlinesafety/

This is an amazing site for children to go through to learn all the aspects of digital citizenship specifically internet safety. It has videos, games, and stories for them to go through to learn more. 

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Online Privacy for Kids- In this educational video they give advice on how to protect online privacy. They explain how we should be careful with what we share, even more so if it's personal information that we wouldn't like other people to know about. Sharing is a responsibility. Very educational video for all ages!