Every spring teachers and students fill out the BrightBytes survey. In the fall our Technology Department looks at the results. We use this data for planning purposes and goal setting. For the last few years, the items about digital citizenship have been a low point in our data, so one of my personal goals has been to provide teachers with resources to explicitly teach their students what it means to be a responsible digital citizen. While there are many great resources out there the one that sticks out to me is Common Sense Media's Digital Citizenship Curriculum. I like that it is well organized and has a scope and sequence across grade levels.
I decided to take this curriculum and tweak it for our teachers. Knowing that teaching a 45-60 minute lesson on something that is not a standard would be a difficult task, I tried to scale the lessons back to about 20 minutes making it easier to fit into the already busy day. I also tried to align the lessons in each grade level to our Character Counts pillar of the month. In some cases this worked, but not every lesson fits every month's pillar well.
The goal is to teach one lesson per month, so that by the end of the year students will have gone through at least 5 specific lessons on digital citizenship. More importantly my hope is that the conversations about what it means to be a digital citizen will become a natural part of our school community.
The document below outlines each grade level's lesson for each month, and includes links to the lessons.
I'd love to know how you teach your classes about digital citizenship. And if you aren't teaching this topic what barriers are the way?
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