Monday, October 14, 2019

Digital Citizenship Week 2019

Digital Citizenship Week 2019

Every year, the third week of October is designated as Digital Citizenship Week. A week where many teachers across the world take time to teaching good digital citizenship in hopes that all students will become safe and smart when using technology. So how can you take advantage of this yearly push to teach your students to become good digital citizens?
Common Sense Media has a wealth of resources.  Many of which I already teach to our students.
Applied Educational Systems breaks it down into key focus areas such: Teaching Empathy, The Internet, User Data, Digital Literacy, Digital Divide, Digital Wellness, and securing digital devices.
EdTech Update has a variety of resources around Digital citizenship.
CyberWise "At CyberWise we believe that Digital Citizenship is the first step to becoming digitally literate." They also have a video that could be useful to share with older students.
NetSmartz "provides age-appropriate videos and activities to help teach children be safer online with the goal of helping children to become more aware of potential online risks and empowering them to help prevent victimization by making safer choices on- and offline. "
InCtrl "is a series of free standards-based lessons that teach key digital citizenship concepts. These lessons, for students in grades 4-8, are designed to engage students through inquiry-based activities, and collaborative and creative opportunities."
iKeepSafe has a variety of resources for educators on Digital Citizenship.
Digizen Is a website that "provides information for educators, parents, carers, and young people. It is used to strengthen their awareness and understanding of what digital citizenship is and encourages users of technology to be and become responsible DIGItal citiZENS."

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