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Digital Citizenship Curriculum Discussion

Resources: Common Sense Media's K-12 digital citizenship curriclum @http://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators/curriculum

[|Digital Citizenship Guidelines] (sorry I didn't make your session, but thought I would share this link. It's a policy I wrote based on the [|9 elements of digital citizenship]).

Children Online @http://www.childrenonline.org/

Thank you to Liza Morrison for these notes! **Digital citizenship using Common Sense Media** **Yumi Nakanishi – Greenwich Academy, all girls**

Greenwich Academy's MS digital citizenship curriculum



Greenwich Academy has 1-1 laptop starting 7th grade Curriculum with 5th & 6th grade preparation for rollout of laptops in 7th 8th grade electives, Photoshop, garageband, digital video

5 strands, with assessment at the end of each strand for 5th and 6th grader Use advisory and health classes for additional discussion and instruction

Dilemma: Facebook is blocked at Greenwich and strong recommendation from Head to parents about asking their MS girls to delay getting Facebook accnts until upper school (Also understand if blocked on wifi, they will get around it or access via their SmartPhones) Pew data (boyd cited) shows parents are often ok with kids going around the rules including 13 year old COPA requirement

Despite blocking Facebook, they know 50% of their 7th grade have accounts, should they teach how to use it? Someone suggested the analogy of teaching “safe sex” instruction – we don’t want you to do this but IF YOU DO…..

Safety first program – also used by common sense – a lot of instruction around cyberbullying Recommend a lab or class setting, videos from CommonSense are terrific, used to capture the girls attention ISTE has learning adventures resource for LS – useful as grade level or class sets to introduce ethics around technology and intellectual property

Some schools use advisory program to bring up issues as they arise instruct about community values and responsibility Also popular to have Heads engage parents (Coffees) about digital citizenship, setting up boundaries at home (is this preaching to the converted?)

What about disciplinary procedures and policies? How do you setup a disciplinary policy around cyberbullying or other tech transgressions? Do you leave in place the more broad ethical or character expectations and use of technology just becomes part of that?

One school: they read the new State laws about cyberbulling to kids You have to start in lower grades with group and advisory discussions around the bad behaviors that affect our community –

HONEST and frank conversations about how much bad behavior (online) affects your (our) community Ask bigger questions about who are you in society how does your technology use reflect who you are?

Sexting – Too many lessons about what kids shouldn’t do, not enough about what they should do. Where do they get models for positive behaviors?

Can we as teachers ask kids to bring their own examples of good digital citizenship?

Life skills classes in 9th and 10th use CommonSense lessons augmented by today’s case studies – the positives of a digital portfolio – use Google to collect and create a picture of who you are for college admissions.

Kindgergarten curriculum for CommonSens Media is well reviewed – and can bring parents into it as well. Brain pop jr has videos for littlest ones - a lot on safety who do you go online with?” how do you pick out “just right sites?” just right sites are like selecting “just right books”

Early grades “safe and secure passwords” email accounts – 4th graders with email have also found some are already on Facebook!

A nice thing about common sense curriculum is you can have one computer projecting it, just read script ahead of time and then anyone can teach the lessons comfortably.

Is a ning network as alternative to Facebook a good idea? Children online – Doug foderman, great presentation.