As I navigated through the links, readings and all of the information provided on the topic of digital citizenship, I realize that teaching digital citizenship to my students had not crossed my mind before. One of the reasons why I didn’t not consider teaching my students digital citizenship is because I work with small groups of students from different classrooms. I deliver small group instruction in the areas of reading, writing and math, for students in K-3rd grade this school year. The students who come to me do not get to use technology, nor do I have access to technological tools, aside from my personal cell phone or the chrome books (for some of my groups). They do have 1:1 access to chrome books or tablets, in their own classrooms, so I assumed that their homeroom teachers were addressing concerns with regards to digital citizenship and technology. I realize my assumption was wrong because other teachers that are part of the cohort are also colleagues from my school and they voiced that they were not teaching digital citizenship either. I feel much more comfortable now, when it comes to knowledge about digital citizenship. I feel like the Common Sense Media Website and the other links provided me with a plethora of useful information, tools and lesson plans to start my students off on the right path towards knowledge of digital citizenship. The lesson I chose to modify is a lesson on digital footprints from the Common Sense Media website. I modified it in order to be able to teach it in no more than two sessions during my group sessions for my second grade group. Since most of my students are not communicating through social media yet. I want to make it personal for my students by emphasizing how dangerous it can be to have a big “digital” footprint and how sharing private information on the web or in social media can have negative effects. Just like we discourage them from talking to strangers, we discourage them from sharing their private information on line, since there a many strangers on line as well. I feel like most of the groups that I service are not aware of many aspects involved with our growing digital world and it is imperative for us to instill in them the sense of responsibility and safety, at an early age. (I remember learning about this through the Common Sense Media video as well.) If I continue using this lesson for my other groups I was pondering about modifying the character in the lesson the cartoon characters of their liking, in order to get more buy in from each different grade level.
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Emily Feil
2/6/2018 08:39:57 pm
I have also never given much thought to teaching about digital citizenship. I am glad there are so many resources available at every different grade level. One possible way to integrate some of these ideas would be in the monthly character trait activities. I think we had a whole month devoted to citizenship last year. It would be great to tie in some digital citizenship activities that month.
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Stephanie Jones
2/6/2018 09:44:23 pm
As far as I know, this is the first year that our technology department is really trying to bring awareness to digital citizenship and what they offer. During the hour and a half technology lesson my students were given about Google Drive, I was also shown how to access digital citizenship lessons from the district gateway page. I was told that they are there as a resource if we wanted to use them, but I think that it needs to be something that our district mandates us to teach. Teachers get busy with the hustle and bustle of daily life that emails that offer suggestions are sometimes pushed aside. I know that I get that way. I believe that all if not most teachers teach some aspect of digital citizenship, but it would be nice to have a set of lesson plans that build on each other so that students are always learning something new and the same lessons aren't being repeated year after year.
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