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What Your Students Really Need to Know About Digital Citizenship1. Passwords Do students know how to create a secure password? Do they know that email and online banking should have a higher level of security and never use the same passwords as other sites? Do they have a system likeLastPass for remembering passwords, or a secure app where they store this information? (See 10 Important Password Tips Everyone Should Know.) 2. Privacy Do students know how to protect their private information like address, email, and phone number? Private information can be used to identify you. (I recommend the Common Sense Media Curriculum on this.) 3. Personal Information While this information (like the number of brothers and sisters you have or your favorite food) can't be used to identify you, you need to choose who you will share it with. 4. Photographs Are students aware that some private things may show up in photographs (license plates or street signs), and that they may not want to post those pictures? Do they know how to turn off a geotagging feature? Do they know that some facial recognition software can find them by inserting their latitude and longitude in the picture -- even if they aren't tagged? (See the Location-Based Safety Guide) 5. Property Do students understand copyright, Creative Commons, and how to generate a license for their own work? Do they respect property rights of those who create intellectual property? Some students will search Google Images and copy anything they see, assuming they have the rights. Sometimes they'll even cite "Google Images" as the source. We have to teach them that Google Images compiles content from a variety of sources. Students have to go to the source, see if they have permission to use the graphic, and then cite that source. 6. Permission Do students know how to get permission for work they use, and do they know how to cite it? 7. Protection Do students understand what viruses, malware, phishing, ransomware, and identity theft are, and how these things work? (See Experiential Knowledge below for tips on this one.) 8. Professionalism Do students understand the professionalism of academics versus decisions about how they will interact in their social lives? Do they know about netiquette and online grammar? Are they globally competent? Can they understand cultural taboos and recognize cultural disconnects when they happen, and do they have skills for working out problems? 9. Personal Brand Have students decided about their voice and how they want to be perceived online? Do they realize they have a "digital tattoo" that is almost impossible to erase? Are they intentional about what they share? Reference: Davis, V. (2014, October 24). What your students really need to know about digital citizenship | Edutopia. Retrieved from http://www.edutopia.org/blog/digital-citizenship-need-to-know-vicki-davis |
Video Resources for teaching Digital Citizenship
Brainpop RESOURCES:Reference:
BrainPOP technology digital citizenship [Video file]. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.brainpop.com/technology/digitalcitizenship/ |
Reference:
5 excellent videos to teach your students about digital citizenship ~ Educational technology and mobile learning. (2013, October 5). Retrieved from http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/10/5-excellent-videos-to-teach-your.html |