Digital Citizenship Resources

Today's workshop was resource share for teaching digital citizenship.   The website we were looking at for resources is Common Sense Media.

This Cyberwyze guide to digital citizenship video (below) gives a good overview of the resources that Common Sense Media has available.

This video is a good intro, but it does not give this site justice!  There is so so much there!  I cannot even begin to explain how thoughtful and robust and visually appealing the resources are.  You have to see it to believe it--so I recommend taking a look around.  Under "Digital Citizenship" you get a drop-down menu where all of the resources are housed.  I especially liked the posters available.  There are a couple of pretty good ones about oversharing and posting appropriate pictures.  When I clicked on this one about oversharing, I noticed it was produced in collaboration with Flocabulary, a site I had never heard of before.  Apparently, Flocabulary is a collection of educational raps (unfortunately it is not free).  The poster looked like it could be the lyrics of a rap, so I did a quick Google search and found the video below that goes along with the poster.

Along these same lines, the facilitator shared with us a simple checklist for students to go through to (hopefully) prevent sharing something they shouldn't:
1.  Would your mother approve?
2.  Could it embarass your grandmother?
3.  Could it hurt you from getting a job?

Just a couple of other tidbits, there is a book "Digital Citizenship in Schools" by Mike Ribble and Gerald Bailey that looks like a good resource.  Also, there is a set of standards called the ISTE standards that have some references to digital citizenship.  I didn't even know there was a set of standards for technology!  Also, Google has a digital citizenship curriculum and a set of curriculum specific to YouTube.  A colleague also brought up an activity through the FBI on digital citizenship.  And finally, I stumbled across this website that has a list of resources.  The Common Sense Media website also has a lot of training on digital citizenship, and you can even become a Certified Educator.