As educators we are faced with the seemingly ever growing challenge of preparing our students with the skills required to be successful in tomorrow's world. This is not always easy. One area that is beginning to grow in the lexicon of 21st century education is the idea of digital citizenship. What this is has been addressed in previous posts on this blog, however it is still pertinent to keep this on our radar screens.
Laura Devany has put together a nice list of 10 different digital citizenship resources for teachers and schools to use. Read the entire article here:
10 Digital Citizenship Resources
- Common Sense Media offers a free K-12 digital citizenship curriculum designed to help students think about their behaviors and actions online.
- Teachers can access YouTube’s digital citizenship resources to help educate students, ages 13-17, about responsible online behavior, protecting their identity, and more.
- BrainPOP’s digital citizenship spotlight touches on issues including online safety, cyberbullying, plagiarism, information privacy, and more.
- BrainPOP Jr. also offers a digital citizenship spotlight geared toward younger students.
- This guide to “Staying Sane in Cyberspace” includes 45 digital citizenship resources compiled by TechChef4u.
- A guide to online manners, arranged in an infographic, can help students learn more about how their online actions impact them now and in the future.
- This resource provides valuable information on Creative Commons, online attribution, and usage rules.
- While this is a paper resource, this poster about Facebook bullying could serve as a helpful and useful guide for students.
- Embrace Civility in the Digital Age, formerly the Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use, offers a number of resources and tools to teach students how to be cyber-savvy.
- NetSmartzKids, a program of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, offers digital citizenship and online safety resources.
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