Digital Citizenship

All students need digital citizenship skills to participate fully in their communities and make smart choices online and in life. Our award-winning K–12 Digital Citizenship Curriculum: Addresses top concerns for schools.Prepares students with critical 21st-century skills.Supports educators with training and recognition.Engages the whole community through family outreach. All students need digital citizenship skills to participate fully in their communities and make smart choices online and in life. Our award-winning K–12 Digital Citizenship Curriculum: Addresses top concerns for schools.Prepares students with critical 21st-century skills.Supports educators with training and recognition.Engages the whole community through family outreach.

https://www.commonsense.org/education/digital-citizenship

5-Minute Film Festival: Teaching Digital Citizenship "Digital citizenship" is an umbrella term that covers a whole host of important issues. Broadly, it's the guidelines for responsible, appropriate behavior when one is using technology. But specifically, it can cover anything from "netiquette" to cyberbullying; technology access and the digital divide; online safety and privacy; copyright, plagiarism, and digital law, and more. In fact, some programs that teach digital citizenship have outlined no less than nine elements that intersect to inform a well-equipped digital citizen.

Can I Use that Picture? The Terms, Laws, and Ethics for Using Copyrighted Images – The Visual Communication Guy: Design, Writing, and Teaching Resources All in One Place! Need to use an image but not sure if you have the legal and ethical right to do so? Understanding the laws for using images can be a bit tricky, especially because there is wiggle room within the laws. And, with the mass distribution of images on the internet, it’s no wonder we’re all asking the the same question over and over again: can I use that picture?

NC Digital Learning Initiative Leaders that understand the importance and possibilities for digital learning are key in making a digital transition successful. The resources below will help leaders establish a vision for teaching and learning in the digital age and offer opportunities for discussion among leadership teams. Responsible Use and Screen Time Source: Friday Institute As we continue to support the work of schools and districts to successfully transition to digital-age learning, the NC Digital Learning Initiative Team has developed the following list of resources for districts and schools to consider as they develop Responsible Use guidelines into local digital technology policies.

How to Teach Internet Safety to Younger Elementary Students Back in October, I wrote a post about Teaching Digital Citizenship in the Elementary Classroom. As it is Internet Safety Month, I want to share a sample lesson for teaching internet safety to students as young as kindergarten. Yes, you read correctly . . . kindergarten. With children spending time online at younger and younger ages, it is vital that we explicitly teach young children how to protect themselves online. Most young children get the "Stranger Danger" talk at school, so they know about how to handle strangers in their neighborhood and in face-to-face situations.

Import or Upload a Custom Video – Flipgrid Help Center Flipgrid provides a fun, easy way to submit videos. Flipgrid also supports the ability for students to import their own videos as well. Use your phone's native camera, edit videos with iMovie, or try AppSmashing with apps like Chatterpix, Screencastify, or Adobe Spark and upload them to your Flipgrid videos! After tapping the Green Plus, Students can import their own custom video: Tap next to the record button. Select your video and finish the steps to submit to Flipgrid Review your video - Trim, rearrange, or add more. Created for Learning: When can I use someone else's images in my resources? We were lucky enough that a connection of ours landed us a free chat with a big trademark/copyright attorney in Southern California. We talked about these things with him. We learned that you can use images from films as long as...

5 Ways to Check Who Is Tracking You Online How much do you love online content? So much you pay for everything you can? Or do you, like the overwhelming majority of internet users, accept advertising and tracking as a way of life? Online Safety Lesson Plans for Teachers FBI Cyber Surf Islands Teacher's Guide - The Cyber Surf Islands activity features 3rd- 8th grade-specific “islands” teaching about various aspects of internet safety through games, videos, and other interactive features. This guide helps use the site and create a leaderboard. (PDF)Safe Surfing Kids - Find lesson plans and activities for teaching online safety to students in the 3rd through 12th grades. NetSmartz - Teaching Materials - Find free teaching materials, handouts, videos, and activities for your students.Stay Safe Online - The National CybersecurityAlliance offers activities and materials to help you teach cybersecurity and cyberetehics, to students from kindergarten through 12th grade.

24 ways to create great classroom video with Screencastify - Ditch That Textbook Not too long ago, video creation required bulky, awkward video cameras with big, plastic VCR tapes. Playback required a TV, a VCR and a hope that everything worked nicely together. And video editing … well, that just wasn’t readily available to the average person. My, how things have changed. I Like It - Safer Internet Day song Coz I like it Chatting with my friends online When there’s nothing to do or it’s raining outside Coz I like it Expressing myself but I never let a bully get into my head Coz I like it Chatting with my friends online When there’s nothing to do or it’s raining outside Coz I like it Expressing myself but I never let a bully get into my head Everybody here put your thumbs up high if you think these bullies should be taken offline When we’re online or using an app We should never have to deal with thatI wanna snap like my screen in half But really they just want me to react But I won’t give in, I’ll step on it Put the message in the bin and won’t let them win!

Copyright: Will We Always Be Behind the Times? I dusted off my copyright presentation the other day, getting ready to talk to a journalism class full of juniors. The task the teacher and I were hoping to accomplish was to help the students better understand copyright and the use of digital images in their online blog magazine publications. As I prepared, just for fun, I pulled the books on copyright that I have as resources for staff in our professional collection. I am embarrassed to tell you that the first thing I found was NEA’s Copyright Primer for Librarians and Educators from 1995! I then proudly pulled out Copyright Clarity by Renee Hobbs only to discover that it is already almost six years old!

This is a link to Common Sense Media's in depth Digital Citizenship curriculum which can be incorporated into existing curriculum. by alyrayj Nov 3