Digital Citizenship in Schools

Common sense education You Tube channel

great blog post by Edna Sackson that shares key concepts through a PYP lens: form, function, connection, perspective, creativity, responsibility, causation, reflection, change, all

Updated location to download this whitepaper

The Patnoudes article that originally appeared on Edudemic.

Southern Cross University Library - older version of Diigo but good tutorial

A relatively current tutorial on how to access and use Diigo for social bookmarking.

Updated link for ISTE standards.

A look at how young people are using new technologies to communicate and share.

"Trolling is just for kids, right? Wrong. Trolling is always very bad manners, but when it goes too far it can easily tip over the edge into something much nastier, and cause a huge amount of distress. "

"Teachers in Cherokee County Schools feel it is vitally important to teach children about the issues our digital world presents as we use technology in the classroom. But teachers cannot do it alone, parents can reinforce what students learn in school by practicing safe Internet use at home. These web resources will help you learn more about being a good digital citizen and how to keep children safe online."

A Sydney comic artist reinterprets Nam Le's The Boat for the digital age.

Interdependence of people and cultures in the global society of the twenty-first century means all citizens of the world must pay greater attention to intercultural communication and the challenges it brings. Intercultural communication is the communication between people from different cultures.

Important tips from globaldigitalcitizen.org to support online collaborative work amongst students. I see this applied to middle and high school as well as higher education.

An interactive guide worth taking a look at.