CYSD Digital Citizenship

Joyce Valeza-Lesson plan for evaluating databases. Students work in pairs to evaluate a database and create a commercial to present and "sell" their database to the group, deomonstrating it's best features.

Not technically digital citizenship, but thought it would be valuable to our curriculum development!

"A logical fallacy is usually what has happened when someone is wrong about something. It's a flaw in reasoning. They're like tricks or illusions of thought, and they're often very sneakily used by politicians and the media to fool people. Don't be fooled! This website and poster have been designed to help you identify and call out dodgy logic wherever it may raise its ugly, incoherent head. If you see someone committing a logical fallacy, link them to the relevant fallacy to school them in thinky awesomeness and win the intellectual affections of those who happen across your comment by appearing clever and interesting e.g. yourlogicalfallacyis.com/strawman (rollover/click icons above)."

"AT&T's Txtng & Drivng Campaign Urges Consumers That 'It Can Wait. This documentary featuring families affected by texting while behind the wheel is being distributed to educators, government officials, safety organizations and public as part of a educational awareness campaign."

"iKeepSafe is dedicated to the education of families on how to stay safe online. That's why we've teamed up with Google to develop curriculum that educators can use in the classroom to teach what it means to be a responsible digital citizen. The curriculum is designed to be interactive, discussion filled and allow students to learn through hands-on and scenario activities. Each workshop contains a resource booklet for both educators and students that can be downloaded in PDF form, presentations to accompany the lesson and animated videos to help frame the conversation."

Great resources for teachers on a variety of Media Literacy topics.

"I often hear adults describing today's young people as "digital natives," usually with a tone of resignation or acceptance: "They are so far ahead of us, but we can turn to them for help," is the general message I hear. My reaction is "Whoa there, Nellie," because to me that kind of thinking smacks of abdication of adult responsibility. Yes, most young people know more than we adults because the fast-changing world of modern technology is alien to us, wildly different from the one we grew up in. But being a "digital native" is not the same as being a "digital citizen.""

Particularly good for elementary students