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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)

 

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