Digital Citizenship in Schools

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Common Sense Media portal for Digital Citizenship curriculum resources

Teens share a wide range of information about themselves on social media sites;1 indeed the sites themselves are designed to encourage the sharing of information and the expansion of networks. However, few teens embrace a fully public approach to social media. Instead, they take an array of steps to restrict and prune their profiles, and their patterns of reputation management on social media vary greatly according to their gender and network size. These are among the key findings from a new report based on a survey of 802 teens that examines teens' privacy management on social media sites

Older research but interesting to read.

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.