Digital Citizenship Week Recap

The Learning Technology Center of Illinois participated in Digital Citizenship Week October 15th-19th, 2018. Throughout the week, LTC staff curated and shared various digital citizenship resources through social media channels. Here are the full collection of resources from Regional Educational Technology Coordinators for use with your students.

• Digital media literacy is an important skill to teach students. Ben Sondgeroth shares two great resources, Listenwise and AllSides, in this quick video: https://youtu.be/uUigbgpe8n4.
• Digital Compass from Common Sense takes your students through a choose-your-own-adventure digital citizenship game. Designed for middle schoolers, Digital Compass takes them through the experiences of digital life: https://www.digitalcompass.org/.
• Through animated videos, short films, games and interactive comics, NetSmartz Teens teaches tweens and teens about making safer choices online: https://www.nsteens.org/.
• Check out these 9 themes of digital citizenship for teachers from 21 Things 4 Teachers: http://www.21things4teachers.net/21-things/digital-citizenship/ .
• There are many issues students face on the web, 21 Things for Students has “quests” for students to go on. The quests allow them to learn about different digital citizenship topics: http://21things4students.net/.
• Code.org has a 30-minute lesson to teach digital citizenship: https://code.org/curriculum/course3/20/Teacher.
• Media Smarts has a #digitalcitizenship game for children ages 7–9. It’s never too early to start teaching students how to be good digital citizens:  http://mediasmarts.ca/game/privacy-pirates-interactive-unit-online-privacy-ages-7-9.
• Nicole Zumpano has a great “to-do” list for being safe, responsible digital citizens. Give her blog post a read here: http://zumpanotechlab.blogspot.com/2017/12/tech-check-yearlong-technology-to-do.html.
• Nicole Zumpano created a list of Digital Safety Resources for 6–8th grade students and guides for parents on digital citizenship: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mQkRj_iMqXwVoIeNBzXpc24DGLr_qwqn1b6jZNbLwMc/edit?usp=sharing.
• We love this interactive set of games from Common Sense that teach digital citizenship issues in grade 3–5:  https://www.commonsense.org/education/digital-passport.
• Google for Education wants your students to Be Internet Awesome. Learn all about this awesome digital citizenship curriculum in this blog post from Ben Sondgeroth: https://ltcillinois.org/google-wants-your-students-to-be-internet-awesome/.
• Joe Cipfl is a former middle school teacher who used three great tools with his students to promote digital citizenship. Learn all about them in this post: https://ltcillinois.org/happy-digital-citizens-week/.
• A lot of people call it a “digital footprint”, but on social media it might be more appropriate to call it a “digital tattoo.” Nicole Zumpano shares how and why you should regularly check what your “digital tattoo” says about you: https://ltcillinois.org/what-does-your-tattoo-say-about-you/.
• Lisa Schwartz shares her favorite three digital citizenship resources in her blog post: https://ltcillinois.org/3-great-resources-to-teach-digital-citizenship/.

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