
EDUCATIONAL TECH MINDSET
Digital Citizenship
Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.
~Christian Lous Lang
Borrowing from MTV's iconic catchphrase from the 80's, the sentiment for Digital Citizenship can best be described "Too Much Is Never Enough." Students should be exposed to it from an early age then it can be scaffolded through the rest of their school years. It encompasses a full spectrum of issues which students often face as digital dilemmas.
Common Sense Media breaks these dilemmas into eight topic areas that can be addressed in a variety of lessons to "empower students to think critically, behave safely, and participate responsibily" in the digital world" (n.d.).

Digital Citizenship Curriculum (Common Sense Media, n.d.)
REFERENCES
Common Sense Media. (n.d.). K-12 digital citizenship curriculum. Retreieved from
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators/digital-citizenship

Digital Citizenship Activities (MacMeekin,2013)

adapted from Digital Citizenship Survival Kit by Craig Badura (2013)
CLASSROOM ACTIVITy idea
Materials:
toothbrush, padlock, permanent marker, toothpaste,
mirror, magnifying glass, sheet of paper, strainer, band aids
Lesson:
1. Put students into groups of 2-3
2. Give each group an object and their task is to figure out how and why it fits into their Digital Citizenship survival kit.
3. Share an example with the toothbrush. Just as you would never want to share your toothbrush with anyone else, you would never share your passwords or even other personal information on-line with others.
4. Students share their ideas. Teacher can add feed-back for the items:
padlock - lock things with strong passcodes
permanent marker - everything on-line is permanent even if you try to delete it
toothpaste - once you put it out there it's difficult to squeeze it back into the tube
mirror - reflect upon things before you put it on-line
magnifying glass - even before you meet someone, they may have already
Googled you, people can find out alot of information about you on-line
strainer - there is so much information on the internet that you need to learn to
strain the appropriate in and inappropriate out
band-aid - everyone makes mistakes, although it usually can't b undone, hopefully
it's not too big and a band-aid can help
5. Ask each group to choose one more item to add to their survival kit and post to a
class blog or Google Classroom with their reason for adding it.

REFERENCES
Badura,C.. (2013). Comfortably 2.0 . Retreieved from
http://www.craigbadura.com/2013/02/the-digital-citizenship-survival-kit.html?m=1
Digital Citizenship
toolkit
(Badura ,2013)