Cathy Turpen

Curated Digital Citizenship Resources

Digital Citizenship Resources

  • November 19, 2021 at 8:03 PM
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Common Sense Educationhttps:
//www.commonsense.org/education/digital-citizenship
Common sense education offers free lessons for K12 students on digital citizenship. Common sense about how students should behave online. They offer topics such as leaving footprints, cyberbullying, and so much more. The site has great appropriate lessons for students no I'm saying are people example of this would be the kindergarten one has a song that the kids can listen to and learn why balance is important. 

Nets Safe
https://www.netsafe.org.nz/the-kit/
Net Safe Schools offers resources for both students and teachers. The resources for the students include a student agreement form and articles on how to maintain safe online presents. The educator side of it offers online safety tips, an advisor blog, a digital safety management plan, and so much more. 

ISTE
https://www.iste.org/explore/Digital-citizenship/6-tips-and-1-activity-to-help-students-engage-as-digital-citizens
The ISTE website has a lot of wonderful resources. The link above is to an article called “7 Tips and 1 Activity to Help Digital Citizens Engage with Empathy.” This article outlines ways that students can be respectful online. It also gives an activity on how to engage this topic with students. 

TED Talks
https://youtu.be/t7Xr3AsBEK4
Ted talks are amazing to watch with older students. There are many Ted Talks about digital citizenship. This talk offers insight on always being connected but feeling alone. 

Cyber Wise
https://www.cyberwise.org/cyber-civics
Cyber Wise offers a middle school curriculum to teachers. They have lesson plans for Digital Citizenship, Information Literacy, and Media Literacy for Positive Participation. These lessons are aligned with academic standards and can be taught in schools and at home.   

BrainPOP
https://www.brainpop.com/technology/digitalcitizenship/
BrainPOP offers a wide range of digital citizenship videos, activities, and readings. Some of the digital citizenship areas they have are conflict Resolution, online safety, and social media. A lot of teachers use BrainPOP in other activities in the classroom.