Digital Citizenship

DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP TOOLKITS AND LESSON PLAN RESOURCES

News & Media Literacy: 9–12 | Common Sense EducationAccess to information is at an all-time high, but deciphering between fact and fiction is more complex than ever. Use this toolkit to help guide your students to think critically about the media they are consuming and creating.

Grades 9–12 Lessons by Topic:

Teachers' Essential Guide to Cyberbullying Prevention | Common Sense EducationWhat is cyberbullying? How common is it? And what can teachers do about it? Get advice and resources to support your students.

Grades 9–12 Lessons:

Turn Down the Dial on Cyber-bullying: Which factors intensify cyber-bullying, and what can you do to lessen them?
Taking Perspectives on Cyberbullying: How does online cruelty affect the people involved?
Becoming a Web Celeb: What does it mean to become an internet celebrity?

Girls, Boys, and Media: A Gender and Digital Life Toolkit for Schools | Common Sense Education

Use this toolkit to help students reflect on gender stereotypes: where they come from, how we learn them, and how they can shape the media that we consume and create.

Grades 9-12 Lessons:

Start by reading the Gender and Digital Life Teacher Backgrounder for high school teachers. Then dive in to the lessons below to challenge your students to think critically about how gender impacts their digital lives.

Feeling on Display: Students reflect on different intentions behind editing, posting, and commenting on online photos.
Overexposed: Sexting and Relationships: Students explore the risks and responsibilities of carrying out romantic relationships in the digital world.
Becoming a Web Celeb: Students explore the upside and downside of becoming famous online and reflect on whether the experience can differ for boys and girls.

ONLINE TRAINING MODULES FOR EDUCATORS

9-12 Welcome | Common Sense Education

9-12 Curriculum Training

Common Sense Education provides high-quality digital literacy and citizenship programs to educators and school communities.

Though this tutorial includes multiple steps, they are designed to be bite-sized and should take approximately an hour to complete.

You will be introduced to the topic of digital citizenship and our Digital Citizenship Curriculum.

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Log inCommon Sense Education provides educators and students with the resources they need to harness the power of technology for learning and life. Find a free K-12 Digital Citizenship curriculum, reviews of popular EdTech apps, and resources for protecting student privacy.

Student Online Privacy Training

This 45-minute interactive online course for educators will introduce the topic of student online privacy and offer concrete best practices for managing the risks to students.

It will include specific tools and methods for assessing the privacy and security of products commonly used in the classroom, and it will support teachers in mitigating the risk of student data being compromised.

Make sure to complete the survey at the end of the course to receive your training completion confirmation.

Requires a Google Account login

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