Digital Citizenship
The student practices safe, responsible, legal and ethical behavior while using digital tools and resources.
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Common Sense Media has some excellent resources for helping teachers bring digital citizenship into their classroom instruction.
Social Media is a huge part of our world today, and is often a very big part of our students' lives. It's a area where students have gotten very little guidance because they have been the pioneers in the social media world and the adults often struggle to keep up. Part of digital citizenship is teaching students safe and acceptable online behavior.
NOTE: before you incorporate any social media into your classroom, always check with your building administration and make sure you are following your district's rules and Acceptable Use Guidelines.
NOTE: before you incorporate any social media into your classroom, always check with your building administration and make sure you are following your district's rules and Acceptable Use Guidelines.
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Making social media a part of your classroom instruction helps students learn and practice conscious commenting. A great place to start is to have analog social media as a classroom bulletin board or display.
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We Should be Doing More Than Teaching Digital Citizenship
Texas teacher Matt Gomez talks about "teaching" digital citizenship by having his students be a part of the global digital world.
Texas teacher Matt Gomez talks about "teaching" digital citizenship by having his students be a part of the global digital world.
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Julie Ramsay has a classroom Twitter account where her 6th graders contribute tweets about what's going on in class. Check out the @Ramsaysclass Twitter feed and see what they're up to!
Students often assume that anything accessible on the web is free for them to copy and use as their own. To instill respect for intellectual property teachers should direct students to copyright friendly resources or show them how to get permission and give attribution to resources that are not their own.
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This video created at Penn State University helps put copyright into perspective for students.
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Librarian Joyce Valenza has created a Copyright Friendly Toolkit to help explain the importance of respect for intellectual property as well as the idea of Creative Commons for ethical resource sharing.
Explore Creative Commons resources (music, images, video, writing, code, etc.) that are open and available for people to use and share.
Explore Creative Commons resources (music, images, video, writing, code, etc.) that are open and available for people to use and share.
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