TEACHING YOUR

STUDENTS WHAT IT
MEANS TO BE A
GOOD DIGITAL
CITIZEN

Are you worried that your

students aren't going to have
all the skills they need to
survive in this new digital
age?

We're hosting a professional

development that will provide
you with quick tools and
This professional development is an opportunity strategies to teach your students
for teachers to collaborate to come up with everything they need to know to
unique ideas to teach their students how to be
good digital citizens. My survey showed that thrive in today's digital world.
many teachers knew what it meant to be a good
digital citizen, but that their students had no
idea. In this digital world we're living in, it is
important that we take the time to teach our
students how to be responsible online
community members to ensure that they are
successful in the future.

In this PD we will explore the nine elements of

digital citizenship and discuss why each
element is important for our students to learn
about. (Waterford, 2019). We will also
brainstorm student-led activities that can
engage our students in learning about these nine
elements. We will take a look at digital resources
that provide digital citizenship curriculums and
how they can be adapted to the needs of our
own classrooms. We will share techniques and
strategies that we have found
to be successful in our own classrooms to
promote digital citizenship. Lastly, we will
address the ISTE Standards for both Students
and Educators and look at how digital
citizenship plays into the standards.
 LEARNING OBJECTIVE

After this professional development, educators will be able to:

inspire their students to "positively contribute and responsibly participate
in the digital world" (ISTE, 2016).

AGENDA

Teachers share a time when they saw students using digital tools
inappropriately or unsafely. The teachers are provided with meaningful
feedback of strategies that they could use to try to prevent these
behaviors from happening in the future.
Presentation of the nine elements of digital citizenship. Teachers
provide feedback on why each element is important for our students to
be taught.
Discuss how cultural and social aspects can influence student
technology use and their knowledge of how to be a good digital citizen.
Video presentation of a teacher facilitating in a student-led activity
that engages their students in learning about digital citizenship.
Introduction to Common Sense Education (2021)'s Digital Citizenship
Curriculum. An overview of a lesson within their curriculum.
Grade level breakout rooms. Teachers will explore a lesson in Common
Sense Education's curriculum for their grade level. They will talk with
their team about how they would implement this lesson in their
classroom and how the lesson may need to be adapted to meet the
needs of their students. Everyone will come back together and grade
teams will share out their lesson proposal.
Teachers will have the opportunity to share techniques and strategies
that they find successful in their own classroom.
Presentation of the ISTE Student and Educator standards. Teachers will
discuss which standards address the nine elements of digital citizenship
most closely.
Participants take a digital evaluation survey.

DIGITAL EVALUATION SURVEY

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