1. Digital Citizenship Teaching Students of the 21 st Century Common Sense Media

2. Digital Citizenship: Teaching Students of the 21 st Century  Goal: Provide teachers with a digital citizenship curriculum that meets the needs of students in Alliance College-Ready Public Schools  Objectives:  Identify problems, in our schools, as it relates to students’ use of technology and their behavior  Define Digital Citizenship  Explore Common Sense Media Digital Citizenship Curriculum  Create a plan for implementation of a digital citizenship program in your schools

3. What’s Happening in Schools?  More than 35% of teens with cell phones admit to using their cell phones to cheat.  45% of teens say texting friends about answers during tests is a serious cheating offense, but 20% say it’s not cheating at all.  69% of schools have policies that don’t permit cell use, but more than half of kids ignore them (policies) Common Sense Media

4. What’s happening in our schools? Movie

5. What’s Happening in our Schools  With a partner, discuss some of the problems you see in your own schools as it relates to students use of media and technology.

6. What Teachers Say:

7. What we know about Alliance students:  They have access to technology-integrated classrooms  They have access to mobile devices inside and outside of the classroom  They will be expected to use technology for performance based assessments with the implementation of Common Core  They have access to online learning portals  There’s a need to educate our students of the

8. Examining the Issues  What role do teachers play in educating students as it relates to the use of technology and media?  How do we tackle the issue of a need to create students who are responsible digital citizens?

9. Digital Citizenship: The way we do business  Digital Citizenship must become part of our school culture--not just a class or lesson but the way we do business in education.

10. Digital Citizenship  With the so much access to technology and the Web, it is essential that we educate our students on how to use these tools appropriately.  We are charged with creating Digital Citizens and cultivating a culture of positive Digital Citizenship within our schools.

11. Digital Citizenship  A digital citizen is one who will think critically, behave safely, and participate responsibly in our digital world. Common Sense Media

12. Common Sense Media Mission:  Common Sense Media is dedicated to improving the lives of kids and families by providing the trustworthy information, education, and independent voice they need to thrive in a world of media and technology.  www.commonsensemedia.org www.commonsensemedia.org

13. Common Sense Media  Common Sense Media offers a variety of free educational resources for parents raising and teachers educating students of the 21 st century who have ongoing access to media and technology.  Movie, Game, and App reviews  Educator Programs (Digital Citizenship Advice curriculum)-standards based  Policy and Advocacy  Online curriculum training

14. Digital Citizenship Curriculum Digital Citizenship Internet Safety Privacy and Security Relationship and Communication Cyber-bullying Digital Footprint and Reputation Self Image and Identity Information Literacy Creative Credit and Copyright

15. Standards Based Curriculum  Commonsense Media’s Digital Citizenship curriculum is standards based.  The curriculum is aligned to the International Society for Technology Education Standards (ISTE NETS)  www.iste.org www.iste.org

16. Common Sense Media  Go to www.commonsensemedia.orgwww.commonsensemedia.org  Create a teacher account to have full access to all resources.  Review the curriculum

17. Planning to Implement  How would you implement a digital citizenship curriculum in your own school?  What would be the challenges in implementing?  How could you get both parents and students vested?

18. Immediate Implementation  What lesson are you committed to teaching when you return to your classroom?  Let’s plan it!!!

19. Resources  Thanks for your participation. For additional support and resources contact  Toria Williams, Director of Innovation and Technology, twilliams@laalliance.orgtwilliams@laalliance.org  www.iste.org www.iste.org  www.commonsensemedia.org www.commonsensemedia.org