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April 28, 2020

1. Glimpse into the State of Digital Citizenship Education
   https://tomorrow.org/speakup/speakup-2017-digital-citizenship-skills-march-2018.html
   
   
2. Remember the NC Digital Learning Competencies?
• Access the full set of standards: https://files.nc.gov/dpi/teacher-dlcompetencies_0.pdf
  
  
• Let's just look at the section on Digital Citizenship
  
3. How does this lesson fit into meeting one aspect of the nc DLCs?
   Dealing with "Fake News" How do we help our students access reliable sources and become informed citizens?
   https://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators/lesson/identifying-high-quality-sites-6-8
   
   
4. BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE! Exploring a digital citizen curriculum:
   https://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators/scope-and-sequence (past curriculum, still useful)
   
   https://www.commonsense.org/education/digital-citizenship#digcit-program (updated curriculum)
   
   
   • Think about using one of these lessons in your Intern II experience. It might also overlap with your PDP for technology and leadership if you share it with your team and/or teach it as part of a mini-PD for your collegues. Consider doing a Digital Citizenship Night for families (a spinoff of the Reading Night often done in schools).
     
     
   • Now, go to this page http://www.edutopia.org/article/digital-citizenship-resources and explore the resources here to add even more to your teacher toolkit for digital citizenship.
     
     
5. Does everyone have access and understanding to digital tools (both are part of the digital divide)? Just because you have access doesn't mean you have been taught or learned how to use them. Think about this especially as we've taught students virtually during home learning.
   
   It's not *just* about access anymore but also about the kind of access.
   

   Video 2: The Have and the Have Nots

   
   
6. What about predators online? Do we need to talk about this with our students?
   
   

   Video 3: Focus on Internet Safety

   
   
   • What is your reaction to this video? What are our responsibilities as teachers? At what age should we start to talk about this with our students? How might this relate to issues of privacy and cyberbullying?
   • For more resources and videos, see: https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/ and their YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/ceop/videos
     
     
7. What about your digital footprint? Check this out for more on this and other topics about keeping kids safe online.
   https://www.childnet.com/teachers-and-professionals
   

EVEN MORE RESOURCES AND TWO ACTIVITIES

Now that you know more about Digital Citizenship have your students get creative by:

• Making a Digital Metaphor or
• Crafting a Digital Mantra.

Both ideas are from Jason Ohler's book Digital Community, Digital Citizen. Have your students share what they have created.

Digital Citizenship:

http://www.jasonohler.com/wordpressii/?page_id=2

http://askatechteacher.com/great-kids-websites/digital-citizenship/

http://www.cyberwise.org/

https://www.commonsensemedia.org/social-media

Digital Divide:

http://www.internetworldstats.com/links10.htm

http://www.pewinternet.org/topics/digital-divide/

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/digital-divide-technology-internet-access-mary-beth-hertz

Other Viral Videos....

As of April 2020, the most watched video is"Despacito" by Luis Fonsi featuring Daddy Yankee with 6,736,309,311 views (4/27/20 4:32 pm) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJQP7kiw5Fk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0 (over 3 billion hits)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmtzQCSh6xk (numa numa one of the original viral videos)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMH0bHeiRNg (and evolution of dance another early viral video)

List of most watched YouTube videos http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_viewed_YouTube_videos