A 3-Step Guide to Developing a Digital Citizenship Curriculum. For many decades, students in K-12 would learn about the theory and practice of civics. Today, schools, governments, entrepreneurs and academics are starting to expand the concept of civics to the digital realm. Professors are now teaching courses about digital citizenship and governments are publishing reports that relay important information about digital citizenship. All of this is productive, but it’s not enough. Every K-12 teacher should make digital citizenship part of the core curriculum. Even though many of today’s students are “digital natives,” they need to be taught proper digital skills. A digital citizenship curriculum gives students the opportunity to grow these skills over the years. Source: Step 1: Introduce Pertinent Topics Any effective digital citizenship curriculum will contain key concepts that are relevant to the real world. Step 2: Implement Practical Lessons Step 3: Involve the Parents Teach Digital Citizenship Today.
8 digital skills we must teach our children — World Economic Forum. The social and economic impact of technology is widespread and accelerating. The speed and volume of information have increased exponentially. Experts are predicting that 90% of the entire population will be connected to the internet within 10 years. With the internet of things, the digital and physical worlds will soon be merged. These changes herald exciting possibilities.
But they also create uncertainty. Children are using digital technologies and media at increasingly younger ages and for longer periods of time. The digital world is a vast expanse of learning and entertainment. Moreover, there is the digital age gap. So how can we, as parents, educators and leaders, prepare our children for the digital age? Digital intelligence or “DQ” is the set of social, emotional and cognitive abilities that enable individuals to face the challenges and adapt to the demands of digital life. Digital identity: The ability to create and manage one’s online identity and reputation. Share Written by. K-12 Digital Citizenship Curriculum. Home. 5-Minute Film Festival: Teaching Digital Citizenship. "Digital citizenship" is an umbrella term that covers a whole host of important issues.
Broadly, it's the guidelines for responsible, appropriate behavior when one is using technology. But specifically, it can cover anything from "netiquette" to cyberbullying; technology access and the digital divide; online safety and privacy; copyright, plagiarism, and digital law, and more. In fact, some programs that teach digital citizenship have outlined no less than nine elements that intersect to inform a well-equipped digital citizen.
It's an overwhelming array of skills to be taught and topics to explore. But while there is much talk about the importance of teaching digital citizenship in this information society, not many are sure what that really looks like. Video Playlist: Teaching Digital Citizenship Watch the player below to see the whole playlist, or view it on YouTube. What is Digital Citizenship? More Resources for Learning About Digital Citizenship.
The death of the digital native: four provocations from Digifest speaker, Donna Lanclos. In these four provocations, anthropologist Donna Lanclos argues that the notion of the "digital native" is bogus and disempowering, that pandering to student expectations can backfire, universities should be open by default, and our attitude to educational technology needs a rethink. Provocation one: The death of the digital native The 'digital native' is a generational metaphor. It's a linguistic metaphor. It's a ridiculous metaphor. It's the notion that there is a particular generation of people who are fundamentally unknowable and incomprehensible.
The original formulation even posited that there is something biologically different about the brains of these so-called digital natives, because of their early and frequent interaction with particular types of technology. Dangerous assumptions There are very real dangers in adhering to this sort of generational narrative of disconnection – it's an argument that says we'll never understand them and, furthermore, that we cannot teach them. Perspecs News App - Three sides to every story.
5 Great Educational Resources for Modern Classrooms. In the digital age, many innovative organizations have branched off into educational initiatives, and their timing couldn’t be better. Recognizing the need for visual literacy, digital citizenship practices, and guided ed-tech implementation, many of these organizations strive to offer our students and teachers versatile tools and the most rewarding experiences possible with them. Such educational resources are designed to appeal to both the teachers and students of modern digital classrooms.
They make terrific use of design tools, social media applications, and a healthy dose of the tech our students love to work and connect with. The following 5 educational resources in this article represent exactly the types of learning environments that are meant for today’s students. Canva Educational On March 24 2015, the web-based design startup Canva announced the launch of its new visual communication support program for teachers called Canva Educational. iPad in Education Skype in the Classroom. There's More to Life Than Blogging & Social Media. Your blog is wonderful. Social media is wonderful. But sometimes all of that wonderful can become more of a time suck or a distraction than we'd like. If you're starting to feel a little bored or a little (a lot?) Unhappy with the time you're spending online, then it's time to make a change or two. About a year ago, I decided that I was spending too much time doing absolutely NOTHING on social media.
And of course, I'm on social media when I'm working because that's part of my job. In order to break the social media habit, I needed to decide what I might do if I wasn't hanging out on social. I made a little list in my head of all of the things I used to like to do before I spent my entire life online. I made plans to visit some places around Chicagoland that I'd thought about visiting but never gotten around to visiting in the seven years that we've lived here. Then, I decided I was going to do more of the cooking around here. Sending Digital Citizenship Home. As educators, we know that having our students' families' involvement is essential. And when it comes to something as important as digital citizenship, knowing that our students' families are clued in can have a huge impact on learning-outcome retention and awareness. Developing a strong home-school relationship can promote student learning and engagement as well as ensure that everyone is on the same page.
In looking to help educators promote that home-school connection, we are excited to announce our newest resource, which you can add to your home-school toolbox around digital citizenship. Our new Family Activity Worksheets take inspiration from the beloved Highlights Kids worksheets that always made their way home in our backpacks throughout elementary school. Aligned to each lesson in our Digital Citizenship Curriculum, the new Family Activity Worksheets look to bring parents and caregivers into the conversation.
Subjects & Skills (click to expand) Get Safe Online | Free online security advice. Fraud committed via links in unexpected emails, posts or texts, or email attachments, is becoming all too commonplace, with millions affected every year. So are phone calls from strangers claiming to be from your bank, your credit card company or the police … but who are actually fraudsters. We call this ‘social engineering’ – which cunningly manipulates you into a position where you can be scammed. The scams range from simple emails to complex multiple phone calls. Whichever the method, they are designed to steal your money or your identity … or both. Never give out personal or financial data including usernames, passwords, PINs, ID numbers or memorable phrases.
Be very careful that people or organisations who you supplying payment card or other confidential information to are genuine, and even then, never reveal passwords. Report any fraud to Action Fraud by calling 0300 123 20 40 or at www.actionfraud.police.uk Check out our informative videos on social engineering scams. A Very Short History of Digitization. In this June 5, 2009 photo, digital television converter boxes are on display at Radio Shack in Gloucester, Mass.
Remaining television stations that have not already made the switch to digital signals are scheduled to cut their analog signals on June 12. (AP Photo/Lisa Poole) Ones and zeros are eating the world. The creating, keeping, communicating, and consuming of information are all being digitized, turned into the universal language of computers. All types of enterprises, from small businesses to large corporations to non-profits to government agencies, are going through a “digital transformation,” turning digitization into new processes, activities, and transactions. From the 1950s on, with a distinct bounce in the 1990s due to the advent of the Web, digitization has changed the way we work, shop, bank, travel, educate, govern, manage our health, and enjoy life. Here are a few milestones in the story of the adoption and proliferation of today’s most widely spoken language. Don’t fear the cyberbullying kids, fear the so-called grown-ups: Teitel. When I attended sleepover camp as a kid — where there was no access to the Internet and ask.fm (a popular site involved in many high-profile cyberbullying cases) had not yet been invented — children and teens tortured each other in more traditional, but equally inventive ways.
Every so often the campers and staff at my camp partook in a unit-wide game of Family Feud, a turn on the famous game show with exclusively camp-themed categories such as “hottest camper,” “weirdest camper,” and “most likely to end up in prison.” Counsellors, most of them teens on a power trip, travelled cabin to cabin asking campers to vote on pads of paper. The results were then presented in full view at Family Feud Night a few days later. All this is to say kids have been ranking each other on awful lists for ages. Meanness is not a recent invention and kid-on-kid crime is not unique to the modern age.
Adults on social media have gone Old Testament: an eye for an eye, a screed for a screed. Digital Natives, Yet Strangers to the Web. When Reuben Loewy took up his first teaching gig in 2012, he had a major revelation: The digital revolution has dramatically transformed the way that kids perceive reality. Perhaps that makes the 55-year-old teacher sound like a dinosaur. What he discovered is, after all, one of the most obvious realities shaping education policy and parenting guides today. But, as Loewy will clarify, his revelation wasn’t simply that technology is overhauling America’s classrooms and redefining childhood and adolescence. Rather, he was hit with the epiphany that efforts in schools to embrace these shifts are, by and large, focusing on the wrong objectives: equipping kids with fancy gadgets and then making sure the students use those gadgets appropriately and effectively.
Educational institutions across the board are certainly embracing (or at least acknowledging) the digital revolution, adopting cutting-edge classroom technology and raising awareness about the perils and possibilities of the Internet. Digital Compass....A Brand New Way To Teach Digital Literacy and Citizenship To Our Kids! Our friends at Common Sense Media have done it again! They have brought us something wonderful to use with our young people in grades 6th through 9th. It is called Digital Compass and it is an animated, choose-your-own-adventure online, educational game that lets our students explore digital literacy and citizenship situations in a meaningful and engaging way. As you can see from the picture above, Digital Compass has used characters to illustrate several different digital dilemma's such as....
Cyberbullying and Digital Drama, Self-Image and Identity, Internet Safety & Privacy, Creative Credit & Copyright, Relationships & Communication, and more. I have used a lot of the amazing Common Sense Digital Literacy and Citizenship Classroom Curriculum when teaching the K-12 students, teachers, and parents at Van Meter.
One of my favorite tools is Digital Passport, which I used with students in grades 3 to 5. On the Digital Compass page, there is a fantastic Educator Guide... Teaching digital citizenship across the whole curriculum. By Dennis Pierce September 15th, 2015 Teaching digital citizenship as a “one-off event” doesn’t lead to changes in behavior, experts say When author and IT director Mike Ribble talks about the importance of teaching students appropriate online behavior, he likes to share a few eye-opening statistics. According to Common Sense Media’s study “Zero to Eight: Children’s Media Use in America,” the percentage of children ages eight and under who’ve used a mobile device nearly doubled from 2011 to 2013, from 38 percent to 72 percent.
What’s more, about two in five children under the age of two have used a mobile device. “Kids are coming to school having already had some contact with technology,” said Ribble, who works for the Manhattan-Ogden Unified School District 383 in Kansas. “Whether they have a knowledge of how to use it appropriately is another question.” Ribble has written a book about the topic, called Digital Citizenship in Schools, and a new edition is available this fall.
Digital Citizenship Education in Saskatchewan. Home / Resources / Educators / Digital Citizenship Education in Saskatchewan Digital Citizenship Education in Saskatchewan Schools Digital Citizenship Education in Saskatchewan Schools is a policy guide that was developed for school division officials to work with school administrators and teachers to help students build an understanding of safe and appropriate online behaviour. The guide offers: a roadmap for developing division wide digital citizenship policies and school-specific digital citizenship guidelines and procedures;tools and resources to support digital citizenship education; anda digital citizenship continuum for Kindergarten through Grade 12 students. The Guide and Continuum: The following documents are available for download: Learning Resources and Supporting Documents: Supporting digital citizenship instructional resources are posted on the I Am Stronger website.
Putting the Guide into Practice - Student Engagement Opportunties: Presentations and Webinars: Share This Contact Us. 10 Interactive Lessons By Google On Digital Citizenship. YouTube has a firm place in the current classroom. From Khan Academy’s videos to YouTube EDU and beyond, there’s a reason all these videos are finding a home in schools. In an effort to help keep the ball rolling, Google just launched a set of 10 interactive lessons designed to support teachers in educating students on digital citizenship.
A topic obviously quite close to Google’s heart. Google (which owns YouTube) built the lessons to educate students about YouTube’s policies, how to flag content, how to be a safer online citizen, and protect their identities. Below is a list of lessons, and the recommended flow for delivery. Or you can download the Full Teacher’s Guide or the Full Set of Slides in PDF. The killer feature for this curriculum is the extra features that come with each video. —Via Edudemic. Infographic: Citizenship in the digital age. Mr. Kirsch's ICT Class Blog | Don’t Miss These Google Resources and Lesson Plans for Teaching Digital Citizenship ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning.
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