Digital Citizenship, Data Privacy, Internet Safety, & Responsible Use

Here are some resources you can use to learn more about Digital Citizenship, Data Privacy, Internet Safety, and Responsible Use

Digital Citizenship

• Common Sense Media. Lesson Plans, Games, Interactive Quizzes and more (https://www.commonsense.org/education/digital-citizenship)
• 12 Resources for Teaching Digital Citizenship, from Richard Byrne, August 20, 2017, https://app.box.com/s/qd6c8dqv9quztnwqi95s4v1jm3s750b3
• Jenna Reeh, Media Specialist at Elkhorn Valley View Middle School reports from ISTE 17 as follows "we need to [students] how to make a positive digital footprint. ...When students names are Googled, positive impacts should be the result. In order to promote positive digital footprints we need to promote all forms of literacy: digital, informational, and media" (https://thisideablog.wordpress.com/2017/06/27/iste-day-3-reflection-ideas-12-tools-that-im-taking-home/) Here are some tools you can use with students to "develop multiple literacies."
  • Adobe Spark, https://spark.adobe.com/
  • Microsoft Sway, https://sway.com/
  • Google Tour Builder https://tourbuilder.withgoogle.com/
  • Candor http://usecandor.com/

Internet Safety and Data Privacy

• Bouquet, R. (October 1, 2014). Four Ways to Help Students Avoid Online Identity Theft. PBS, Science of Learninghttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/blogs/education/2014/10/four-ways-to-help-students-avoid-online-identity-theft/)
• Be Internet Awesome (Google's new Internet Safety Curriculum ), https://beinternetawesome.withgoogle.com/ as shared by Richard Byrne, June 7, 2017 http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2017/06/be-internet-awesome-googles-new.html#.WU54FlPyu3I
• Download Be Internet AwesomePDF https://beinternetawesome.withgoogle.com/pdfs/Google_BeInternetAwesome_DigitalCitizenshipSafety_Curriculum_.pdf

The game is set in a virtual world that students navigate by correctly answering questions about Internet safety. The graphics of the game are great and there are some elements in which students navigate, but there is also a heavy reliance multiple choice questions in the game. Watch an overview of the game in the video below.

YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJj2U7XuHdo

Be Internet Awesome is based on five key concepts for kids:

• Share with care.
• Don't fall for fake.
• Secure your secrets.
• It's cool to be kind.
• When in doubt, talk it out.