With technology being all around us and in the hands of our children, we need to teach them about internet safety and what it means to be a digital citizen. Today, in our third grade classrooms (there are four sections), we did just that. We rotated the students through each classroom providing the students with four lessons on what it means to be a digital citizen. Our lessons came from a great site that I was introduced too this summer during one of my classes. It is called Common Sense Media! There is lots of good information on the site. Our lessons came under the education tab where you can find the digital citizenship heading and then under scope and sequence. Here you will find appropriate lessons for the different grade levels. The lessons that we choose to teach for today were:
Digital Citizenship Pledge: Students work together to outline common expectations in order to build a strong digital citizenship community. Each member of the class signs a We the Digital Citizens Pledge.
Rings of Responsibility: Students explore what it means to be responsible to and respectful of their offline and online communities as a way to learn how to be good digital citizens.
The Power of Words: Students consider that they may get online messages from other kids that can make them feel angry, hurt, sad, or fearful. Students identify actions that will make them Upstanders in the face of cyberbullying.
Picture Perfect: Students learn how photos can be altered digitally. They will consider the creative upsides of photo alteration, as well as its power to distort our perceptions of beauty and health.
Looking at how the day went...The students enjoyed the change, moving from teacher to teacher. It was also a great way to introduce them to four different lessons in one day! We plan to do it again!
What a cool idea to liven up your lessons! Digital citizenship is become more important as kids are being exposed to so much technology at such an early age. Was this all new information or did some students already know this and "check out" from the lesson? How did you recapture engagement of those students?
ReplyDeleteI believe that the information was new to the students. When I started the lesson I taught, I asked them what it meant to be a digital citizen and they were unable to tell me! So it was a day of learning new information!
DeleteThis is a FABULOUS idea! Thanks for sharing this site. I know that I want my students to be working with technology more but am afraid of some of the things that they can/could get into. How did you decided which components to teach? Are you planning on teaching all of the lessons that are included in the site curriculum?
ReplyDeleteWe don't plan to teach all of the lessons. Some are geared towards older students (3-5). Our goal is to teach at least one lesson from the eight different areas!
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