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 article describes how teachers can effectively teach digital citizenship and provides resources to help teachers learn more about weaving digital citizenship throughout instruction.

This article describes how one teacher incorporates digital citizenship skills in authentic contexts.

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.

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

In this webinar, Dr. Kristen Mattson describes how we can move from the traditional view of digital citizenship toward empowering students and addressing the opportunities and responsibilities of the digital world.

Computational thinking is the problem-solving skill of the digital world. It’s powerful when integrated into the curriculum because students engage in experiential learning of content-related problems, such as how to identify the tone of a story or how to best address pollution in their local area. In this article, Nick Pinder explains why educators should integrate computational thinking into their curriculum.