When doing homework or looking for fun stuff, it's easy for kids to stumble on iffy content. Discover four ways to help your kid search safely online.
Today's kids spend lots of time posting and sharing information online. Learn five surefire ways to protect their privacy.
Educator and author Kristen Mattson, Ed.D., has a bone to pick with a lot of the digital citizenship curricula used in schools today. Too much of it, she says, focuses on what not to do, and it rarely addresses the opportunities and responsibilities of the digital world. In addition, much of it is isolated from any real context and doesn’t give students many opportunities to practice their skills as citizens of digital communities. This article explores strategies to help digital citizens engage with empathy.
This infographic provides ideas for teachers to include digital citizenship concepts in everyday instruction.
This article describes how teachers can effectively teach digital citizenship and provides resources to help teachers learn more about weaving digital citizenship throughout instruction.
This Canva presentation can help high school teachers instruct students in using reliable sources.
This Canva presentation can help elementary teachers instruct students in developing positive online interactions.
Preparation and practice are the keys to a successful interview and amazing story. The goal of the interview is to get soundbites that connect with your audience, illuminate the topic, and move your story forward.
In this 6-8 Digital Citizenship and Technology Drag & Drop Nearpod activity, students will determine if a message is safe to open, or a phishing scam.
Help your students and their parents understand digital citizenship and their place on the web.
This is a digital citizenship lesson for kindergarten, focusing on teaching students to interact with others only in a positive manner online.Thumbnail image created by Kimberly Jerman.
In this Common Sense Education Nearpod lesson on Digital Citizenship & Literacy, students learn how companies use targeted advertising through a user's online activity. Students investigate how they can protect their privacy online.
Introduce students to plagerism and citing sources by creating a reference page for a book report.
How does news get from the front lines to your feed? Let’s take a look behind the curtain... Students will gain an understanding of what constitutes broadcast news and how it’s produced. They will use this knowledge to work backwards, investigating and critically analyzing news stories they’ve recently encountered. Click on the Activities Tab to complete the lesson.
In this Common Sense Education Nearpod lesson on Digital Citizenship & Literacy, students learn about tactics by which they can chat safely online. Students consider some benefits and risks of talking with people online that they don't know face to face.
This is an assessment from the Stanford History Education Group's Civic Online Reasoning curriculum. This is to assess how well students can assess information/claims that they find on social media. This is an assessment that is housed on Google Forms. You will be prompted to make a copy of the assessment which you can be distributed to students.
This Canva presentation can help high school teachers instruct students in using digital tools for good.
This is a lesson plan created to help students in 6th grade cement their understanding of the digital citizenship they have learned in their years of elementary school. This will be done as a collaborative group project. Students will revieiw the ISTE Digital Citizen standards, create Interland-style questions that relate to this standard (geared toward a 4th grade audience), create a question slide and an answer slide, and then create an internaut-style character to use on their slides.
As an English/digital media teacher at Henry Clay High School in Lexington, Kentucky, Jason Behler has found that his students become deeply engaged when creating their own podcasts, especially because he allows them great freedom in selecting their own genre and content. His students develop skills in collaboration and time management as well as technical and communication skills. Podcasting does not need to be confined to a class in digital media, and it does not require expensive equipment. Podcasting can be integrated into any content area to add spark to your lessons.