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Your Digital Footprint: Leaving a Mark - Teacher Video. Bing - Explore. Digital Literacy. Teach teens digital citizenship through student-directed, media-rich activities. WeAreTeachers Reviews Digital Compass Game. Tagging unflattering photos of other students.

WeAreTeachers Reviews Digital Compass Game

Setting up fake accounts to send anonymous messages. Internet “research” for school that cuts and pastes text from a website. Fabricating a birthdate to sign up for an 18-and-over service. It is a digital jungle out there for students, especially for middle schoolers new to unsupervised online behavior. WeAreTeachers’ newest Pick of Week is Digital Compass, a free ​Web- and app-based game from Common Sense Media that can help tweens learn digital safety and citizenship.

Why we like it: We are willing to try anything to reduce the amount of online-generated strife ​in our classrooms, especially a method produced by Common Sense Media, a nonprofit organization focused on healthy media consumption for kids. Hard choices, not cheesy: The game is delivered in a “choose your own adventure” style with eight different stories and protagonists to portray. Middle School Curriculum Training Video. Digital Citizenship. Health and Wellness - Well Blog - The New York Times. K-12 Online Curriculum Training. Beyond Private and Public in Social Media - Looking UpLooking Up. It is a basic principle of digital citizenship education that everything on the internet is public.

Beyond Private and Public in Social Media - Looking UpLooking Up

It’s the equivalent of abstinence in sexual education or “Just Say No” when teaching teens about drugs and alcohol. If you don’t take risks, won’t get into trouble. Unfortunately, as with all abstinence only approaches, it ignores the reality of most students lives. Teens use social media. A lot. A “safety first” approach is overly simplistic and students are savvy enough to know it.

In “Making Sense of Privacy and Publicity“, danah boyd explains the flaw behind the “public-private binary”. We share personal information to form relationships. I may tell someone that One Direction is better than The Beatles. What about you does no one else know? Most personal information is so mundane that nobody cares. Private and public are not two solitudes, they’re poles on a continuum, and our personal information lies somewhere between the two.

This same process occurs on social media. Like this: Week 2: Safe and Ethical Use of Technology. Social Media in Education: Resource Toolkit. Creating Social Media Guidelines A Guidebook for Social Media in the Classroom, by Vicki Davis (2014) Davis, in the first half of a pro-and-con discussion about social media in the classroom, positions it as a vital life skill and provides 12 positive examples of classroom use.

Social Media in Education: Resource Toolkit

For the second half of the discussion, read this post by Ben Johnson: "Too Much Technology and Not Enough Learning? " The Digital Lives of Teens: What Time Is It? Now! By Matt Levinson (2013) In this first installment of his Digital Lives of Teens series, Levinson considers the problem of translating the teenage urgency of 'always on' into the mindfulness of 'being present.' Back to Top Student Engagement With Social Media Tweeting the Read-Aloud: Engaging and Motivating Readers, by Monica Burns (2014) Engage young readers by showing them the value of composing and sending tweets to authors whose books they've enjoyed during a read-aloud.

Parents & Digital Safety. Getting Parents on Board with Technology. Scope & Sequence. Get Trained Use our professional development resources to learn best practices for teaching digital citizenship to your students.

Scope & Sequence

Onboard Students: Digital Passport Introduce students in grades 3-5 to Digital Passport, our award-winning suite of games that help onboard students to the foundational skills of digital citizenship and Internet safety. Teach Lessons: Unit 1 Teach Lessons: Unit 2 5 - Picture Perfect How can photos be changed on the computer, and how can that affect your feelings about the way you look? Teach Lessons: Unit 3 Extend Learning: Digital Bytes Challenge teens to take a real-world look at digital citizenship through student-directed, media-rich activities in Digital Bytes.

Give Assessment Assess your students’ learning of lesson objectives and gauge their understanding and attitudes through interactive unit-level assessments. Engage Families Invite parents into the conversation with our Connecting Families program and resources. Resource Library. Digital Citizenship. Middle School and High School Digital Citizenship.