A thought provoking video about critical and creative thinking from John Seely Brown

"In classrooms where digital citizenship is taught effectively, the teachers often share two things in common: They model ethical technology use for their students on a daily basis, and they naturally incorporate conversations about it whenever technology is part of their lesson plan. In other words, they weave digital citizenship seamlessly throughout their curriculum." There are some resources here to help you ion your task

Some useful loists for YA literature. Grouped under various topics and each book given a short description.

"tTe final instalment of our Global Digital Citizenship in 15 Minutes blog series. This series covers the 21st Century Fluencies and Global Digital Citizenship. It shows how to explore them with students in 15 minutes or less each day. In this one they they look at the Global Digital Citizen."

"The animated video describes the six universal Principles of Persuasion that have been scientifically proven to make you most effective as reported in Dr. Cialdini's groundbreaking book, Influence" useful ideas to keep in mind

Downloadable poster from edutopia

"Those who do not learn how to utilize social media strategically run a great risk of encountering obstacles when seeking employment or admission. Research has been clear that social media can serve important professional purposes, such as personal branding, self-promotion ad impression management (Chen, 2013; Jackson & Lilleker, 2011; Labrecque et al., 2011; Zhao et al., 2013), and we encourage its intentional positive use. We suggest that all youth (and young adults!) work extra hard to do great things at school and in their community (e.g., making the honor roll, volunteering, extra-curricular activities, etc.) so that when one does search for them, they find evidence of hard work, integrity, and civic-mindedness."

"It's about preserving our digital history, which as we know now, is as easy to delete as 15 years of GeoCities.We can't expect for-profit corporations to care about the past, but we can support the independent, nonprofit organizations that do."

A free service from the terrific Common Sense Education site that makes it easy to discover the best apps, games, and websites for classroom use.

A good range of options if you are looking for short videos/films as entry points to discuss digital citizenship with students.

"An annotated list of some free stock photo sites whose images fall under CC0 license."

Many unique public domain photos.

Having the "same" text written for different levels of English comprehension can be a life-saver for a multi-level class of English Language Learners or for a teacher with a mainstream class that includes some students that are facing other challenges. They can be an important tool for differentiation. Listed here are a few sources where you can get these different versions other than creating them yourself.

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