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Digital CitizenshipTeaching Students of the 21st
CenturyCommon Sense Media
Digital Citizenship: Teaching Students of the 21st Century
Goal: Provide teachers with a digital citizenship curriculum that meets the needs of students in Alliance College-Ready Public Schools
Objectives:
Identify problems, in our schools, as it relates to students’ use of technology and their behavior
Define Digital Citizenship
Explore Common Sense Media Digital Citizenship Curriculum
Create a plan for implementation of a digital citizenship program in your schools
What’s Happening in Schools?
More than 35% of teens with cell phones admit to using their cell phones to cheat.
45% of teens say texting friends about answers during tests is a serious cheating offense, but 20% say it’s not cheating at all.
69% of schools have policies that don’t permit cell use, but more than half of kids ignore them (policies)
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What’s happening in our schools?
Movie
What’s Happening in our Schools
With a partner, discuss some of the problems you see in your own schools as it relates to students use of media and technology.
What Teachers Say:
Attention Span
Writing
Face-toface communication
Homework
Crtitical Thinking
34%
19%
15%
15%
12%
37%
39%
44%
33%
30%
Many teachers believe that students’ use of enter-
tainment media has hurt their academic perfor-
mancea lot somewhat
What we know about Alliance students:
They have access to technology-integrated classrooms
They have access to mobile devices inside and outside of the classroom
They will be expected to use technology for performance based assessments with the implementation of Common Core
They have access to online learning portals
There’s a need to educate our students of the
Examining the Issues
What role do teachers play in educating students as it relates to the use of technology and media?
How do we tackle the issue of a need to create students who are responsible digital citizens?
Digital Citizenship: The way we do business
Digital Citizenship must become part of our school culture--not just a class or lesson but the way we do business in education.
Digital Citizenship
With the so much access to technology and the Web, it is essential that we educate our students on how to use these tools appropriately.
We are charged with creating Digital Citizens and cultivating a culture of positive Digital Citizenship within our schools.
Digital Citizenship
A digital citizen is one who will think critically, behave safely, and participate responsibly in our digital world.
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media Mission:
Common Sense Media is dedicated to improving the lives of kids and families by providing the trustworthy information, education, and independent voice they need to thrive in a world of media and technology.
www.commonsensemedia.org
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media offers a variety of free educational resources for parents raising and teachers educating students of the 21st century who have ongoing access to media and technology.
Movie, Game, and App reviews
Educator Programs (Digital Citizenship Advice curriculum)-standards based
Policy and Advocacy
Online curriculum training
Digital Citizenship Curriculum
Digital Citizenship
Internet Safety
Privacy and Security
Relationship and Communication
Cyber-bullying
Digital Footprint and Reputation
Self Image and Identity
Information Literacy
Creative Credit and Copyright
Standards Based Curriculum
Commonsense Media’s Digital Citizenship curriculum is standards based.
The curriculum is aligned to the International Society for Technology Education Standards (ISTE NETS)
www.iste.org
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Go to www.commonsensemedia.org
Create a teacher account to have full access to all resources.
Review the curriculum
Planning to Implement
How would you implement a digital citizenship curriculum in your own school?
What would be the challenges in implementing?
How could you get both parents and students vested?
Immediate Implementation
What lesson are you committed to teaching when you return to your classroom?
Let’s plan it!!!
Resources
Thanks for your participation. For additional support and resources contact
Toria Williams, Director of Innovation and Technology, twilliams@laalliance.org
www.iste.org
www.commonsensemedia.org
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