The beginning of the school year is such an important time for digital citizenship. Schools are distributing their Acceptable Use Policies or Responsible Use Policies. Students may have access to new technologies. Teachers are often planning on integrating new digital tools into their teaching.
How has your school built a positive culture around digital citizenship? How have you involved students, faculty, staff, leadership, and parents? You can build a positive school culture around digital citizenship, and involve all stakeholders.
Comics are a great avenue to teach digital citizenship, through themes of virtue, right and wrong, and a superheroes coming in to save the day.
Based on lessons from Common Sense Media’s K-12 digital literacy and citizenship curriculum, Digital Passport uses engaging games and videos to address the key issues that kids face online.
How can a school district educate each and every student to be a safe, responsible, respectful digital citizen?
[…] smartphones. In order to ensure the success of the initiative, educators are given professional development to help them understand BYOT and incorporate it into their curriculum. In addition, educators include digital citizenship education in their lessons to encourage student responsibility. It is Tim’s hope that Forsyth County continues to be a high performing school district. Tim hosted a webinar […]