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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?

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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.

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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.

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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)

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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

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