This Canva presentation can help middle school teachers instruct students in using reliable sources.

Students will learn the basics of fact-checking a news story, and the difference between primary and secondary sources.

TIn this lesson we will be discussing with high school students how to protect themselves from fake news.  We will be doing an activity that has them using these skills in real time. 

In this Common Sense Education Nearpod lesson on Digital Citizenship & Literacy, students learn how they can find credible information on the internet. Students learn strategies for evaluating the credibility of a piece of content.

In this Common Sense Education Nearpod lesson on Digital Citizenship & Literacy, students reflect on how balanced they are in their daily lives. They consider what "media balance" means and how it applies to them.

This lesson plan is designed to allow students to explore different aspects of digital citizenship.  You should begin with a brief discussion and then allow students to proceed through the Hyperdoc, making their own selections of which media to watch/play and which questions to discuss with a partner. 

In the aftermath of the divisive 2020 presidential election, PBS NewsHour and Student Reporting Labs (SRL) aired "We the Young People", a half-hour virtual special highlighting the impact of young voters. The show featured teen voices and conversations with experts focusing on issues that affect young people.

In the first video, Jevin West, an Associate Professor at the University of Washington who studies the spread of misinformation, talks to student reporter Bridgette Adu-Wadier about the ongoing problem of misinformation online and in our society and how it has impacted democratic processes. In the second video, multimedia reporter Heather Taylor-Wynn talks to two teen fact-checkers from Poynter’s MediaWise program about solutions to slow down the spread of misinformation.

Passwords are an essential part of life online - and if we're not careful about keeping them secret, they can cause big problems. By understanding the risks and making passwords stronger, we can feel a little more secure.

SRL's Becky Wandel spoke with science producer Nsikan Akpan about he how he debunked that cellphone-horns story. This resource includes a video and teaching resources to help students dig more deeply into the facts behind science stories we see in the news.

This self-paced course from ISTE covers how to teach and model digcit so you can help students be responsible and active in online communities.

The Importance of Digital Citizenship HyperDoc will help students learn about, understand, and use their gained knowledge of digital citizenship wisely.  Students will visit five links about different aspects of digital citizenship and communicate, through writing notes, what they learn and experience in each section.  

Learn how to become a better visual storyteller by analyzing and creating your own video sequences.

9 Elements of Digital CitizenshipIn this jigsaw group activity, students will be creating an info commercial on one of the nine pillars of a good digital citizen.  Digital Citizenship: Using Technology Appropriately.  Each student will pick one of the pillars to create an info commercial demonstrating that particular element of digital citizenship.  This is a jigsaw activity.  A jigsaw teaching strategy is when students take ownership of their own learning.  One student learns the material and then shares the information to the rest of their classmates. By the end of the Unit, we will have movie time watching these info commercials.  Students will understand the following:1. What is digital citizenship?2. What is Digital Access?3. What is Digital Commerce?4. What is  Digital Communication and Collaboration?5. What is Digital Etiquette?6. What is Digital Fluency?7. What is Digital Health and Welfare?8. What is Digital Law?9.  What is Digital Rights and Responsibility? 10.  What is Digital Security and Privacy 

This blog post shares why and how to introduce social media to younger students.

This week Jared and Dani connect with Justin Anderson, an educational technology team lead from the Canyons School District. As part of the episode they explore what digital citizenship looks like for today's students. We discussion issues such as: What it means to be a good digital citizen. Beyond cyberbullying, what else does digital citizenship entail. How digital citizenship has changed in 2020. How teachers can model digital citizenship and more...

This Canva presentation can help elementary teachers instruct students in using digital tools for good.

Richard Culatta, CEO of ISTE, describes a change in how we should approach teaching digital citizenship.

The books on this list can help you earn your Educational Technology Endorsement microcredentials.

This Canva presentation can help Ed Tech coaches teach why and how digital citizenship skills can be taught in any classroom.