Resources for Teaching Digital Citizenship

Students, teachers--all of us--continue to grow in our understanding of how technology plays an important role in our everyday lives. It is useful occasionally to stand back to gain an overview of its role and to determine how we can more effectively handle the technology in safe, secure, and professional ways... and how we can help others learn to do the same.

Reputation / F Delventhal / CC BY 2.0

Edutopia (http://www.edutopia.org/) recently published an article by Vicki Davis in which she describes the proactive knowledge and the experiential knowledge she wants her students to know and experience about digital citizenship. Her content categories are up-to-date and useful for students and for teachers, too. Davis lists the basics as:

• passwords
• privacy
• personal information
• photographs
• property
• permission
• protection
• professionalism
• personal brand.

One of the resources I use when I work with digital citizenship curriculum is the Nine Themes of Digital Citizenship developed by Mike Ribble. He states that digital citizenship is "appropriate, responsible technology use." Ribble lists the themes of digital citizenship as:

• digital access
• digital commerce
• digital communication
• digital literacy
• digital etiquette
• digital law
• digital rights and responsibilities
• digital health and wellness
• digital security (self-protection).

In a recent post I shared an infographic designed by Mia MacMeekin for modeling digital citizenship in the classroom. See Good Reading on Digital Citizenship...


Edutopia published an updated resource roundup about digital citizenship. This roundup is a good addition to digital citizenship resources.

What resources would you add for digital citizenship?

Good Reading on Digital Citizenship, Humor, and Physical Education

I love reading good ideas from members of my PLN. Here's some of what I'm reading this week.

THINK before you / Thomas Galvez / CC BY 2.0

An Ethical Island: How to Teach Without a Lecture and Other Fun
Happy Digital Citizenship Week
Mia MacMeekin
October 24, 2014

An infographic with 27 habits / suggestions for teachers and students to implement digital citizenship in the classroom...

http://anethicalisland.wordpress.com/2014/10/24/happy-digital-citizenship-week/

Always Laughing / Melody Hansen / CC BY 2.0

The Teachers' Lounge
50 Strange Things Teachers Say
Brandi Jordan
November 5, 2014

Just what the title of this post says... and definitely worth reading on one of those days when you need a chuckle...  :)

http://blog.reallygoodstuff.com/50-strange-things-teachers-say/

Soccer Practice / WoodleyWonderworks / CC BY 2.0

The Physical Educator.com: Rethinking What Can Be Done in Physical Education
The Skillbook
Joey Feith and Mike Cicchillitti
November 2, 2014

I recommend this blog (and selected other resources) when physical education teachers--or university students who are studying to become physical education teachers--question my suggestion that they check out social media for ideas to help them become better PE educators.

In this post Joey Feith shares what his goals have been for "phase one" of this blog... and what he would like to see happen in "phase two." He wants to see a resource (using Google Sheets) developed by PE educators. This resource will become a "one-stop-shop for all skill content knowledge." Read more about his idea in the post... and consider volunteering to help if you are a PE teacher.

http://www.thephysicaleducator.com/blog/files/skillbook.html#unique-entry-id-391