Teaching Digital Citizenship 101

About My Team:

I have an incredible Instructional Technology team consisting of 25 classroom teachers. On top of their regular teacher roles, they train throughout the county on equipment, programs, new ways to implement technology, and presenting and participating in two Technology Summits over this summer emphasizing the use technology in our county. In addition, the pictured team members researched and contributed to the writing of the digital citizenship Edmodo course and eBook.

Robyn  Dilmore  Edmodo:  Mrs.  Dilmore  Twi1er:  @msdilmore  

Tom  Price  Edmodo:  Mr.  Tom  Price  Twi1er:  @flscienceteach  

Stephen  Veliz  Edmodo:  Mr.  Stephen  Veliz  Twi1er:  @stephenveliz  

Staci  Stephens  Edmodo:  Mrs.  Stephens  Facebook:    h1p://on.C.me/OMfQZL  

Jessica  Titze  Edmodo:  Mrs.  Jessica  Titze  Twi1er:  @Jtzej  

Tim  Girard  Edmodo:  Mr.  Tim  Girard  Twi1er:  @girard_Jm  

Candace  Gautney  Edmodo:  Mrs.  Gautney  Twi1er:  @cgautney  

Melissa  Olson    Edmodo:  Mrs.  Olson  Twi1er:  @melissa9801  

Our Project – Work in Progress ²  Young families and professional development

² Miss out on professional development opportunities

²  Professional development online ² Flexibility with in learning

²  Free, easy, and effective ²  (Edmodo)

² Our project – Create a digital citizenship course and interactive E-book for educators.

Rules and Compliance: ² Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA)

compliance means that schools and libraries are filtering their Internet services and have implemented formal Internet safety policies also frequently known as “acceptable use policies” (AUP).

Protecting Children in the �21st Century Act

² We needed to make sure that we were compliant with Internet safety policy to provide education for minors about appropriate online behavior on social networking websites and cyberbullying awareness and response.

Source: http://securecontenttechnologies.com/iboss.html Source: http://www.ops.org/middle/mcmillan/CommonSenseMediaOmahaEvent/tabid/400/Default.aspx

Source: http://cie.sfchron.com/sfc_nes_portal/ Source http://www2.wacoisd.org/lakeair/STUDENTS.html

What we currently use:

So what’s missing?

Our Course: Digital Citizenship 101

²  Created in Edmodo.

²  Created by teachers from all grade levels. ²  (Elem., Middle, High)

² Mission: To expose teachers to free and easy professional development that deals with digital citizenship so they can teach it effectively.

Intro to Digital Citizenship

²  Introduction to digital citizenship

²  Teaching digital citizenship

²  Our students as “digital natives”

Digital Natives ² What is a digital

native?

² What is a digital immigrant?

² Are there advantages

and disadvantages?

Digital Etiquette

² What is digital etiquette? ² What is e-mail netiquette?

²  To text or not to text

Core rules to follow: ²  Rules of

communication ²  Golden Rule

²  Teaching netiquette at a young age.

² Habits to break.

²  Check List – For your computer.

Netiquette

 •  The need/urge to stay

connected.

 •  What is a safe network?

•  How do students connect to networks?

•  Online identity

•  Passwords

•  Online environment vs. reality

Connectivity

Copyright, Sources, & Plagiarism  

 ²  Copyright – What it is?

²  Sources ²  How to site them? ²  Good sources v. Bad

sources

²  Plagiarism ²  Intentional and

Accidental.

²  Creative Commons

   

Cyberbullying

²  Comparing cyberbullying with regular bullying.

²  Recognizing cyberbullying when it happens.

² What to do when you

encounter cyberbullying?

Social Media

² Anonymity within social media.

²  Disclosing too much in social media.

² Moderation with social media.

²  Repercussions of your behavior within social media ²  Digital Footprint

Digital Footprint

² What is your digital footprint? ²  How does this apply

to everyone.

² Making students aware of their “digital footprint” through the teaching of digital citizenship.

²  You can’t erase your digital footprint. ²  Don’t let this be your

Kryptonite.

Schools, Parents & Supervision

•  Children should always be supervised not matter the location.

•  Open line of

communication.

•  Model being a digital citizen.

•  Expose parents to proper education of digital citizenship. The teaching does not end at school.

Digital Certificate ²  Boost student

confidence.

²  Create a sense of accomplishment.

²  Create a certificate for students. Earn a digital citizenship badge.

JOIN GROUP CODE 1PBSQY to view the digital

citizenship course. Please understand that this is a sample course. Assignments will not be graded in

this sample course. You are free to use the materials within this course as long as you give Leon County Schools, FL credit for the course content creation,

and the artist, Hank Hodges, credit for any illustrations in the course and presentation.