Teaching Responsible Digital Citizens

During the month of October, the elementary digital learning team will be sharing resources to assist toward teaching our students to become responsible Digital Citizens in a Connected World. As many of you know, Digital Citizenship Week is the week of October 18 – 25, 2016.  As part of our digital professional learning series, we will host a #bisddlp Twitter chat every Tuesday night from 8-8:30 during the month of October highlighting a digital citizenship topic. Join us tonight as we consider Becoming a Responsible Digital Citizen. 

How do we begin teaching our kids about responsible digital citizenship?

In classrooms where digital citizenship is integrated effectively, teachers often model technology use for their students daily. Modeling appropriate use of technology allows for teachers to naturally incorporate digital citizenship conversations during instructional delivery. Remembering that we are all digital citizenship teachers is a crucial component toward improving a student's understanding of becoming a responsible digital citizen. Here are some resources to teachers begin conversations with our students. 

• BISD Digital Citizenship Scope and Sequence was just launched by BISD's Digital Learning Department and is closely aligned to BISD's CORE (Community of Respect) values. The Digital Citizenship Scope and Sequence contains resources and lessons to help continue important conversations toward becoming a responsible digital citizenship.  

BISD Digital Citizenship Curricular Topics

Fall Semester	Spring Semester
Digital Responsibility	Creative Credit and Copyright
Ethics and Empathy	Media Literacy
Kindness Matters: Community Communication	Cyber Courage

• BISD's Digital Citizenship Posters: Engage and remind students about responsible digital citizenship and order a BISD Digital Citizenship poster. 

What are the 9 Elements of Digital Citizenship? 

What does it mean to be a responsible digital citizen? Being a good digital citizen includes learning about safety concerns, such as how to stay safe while communicating online to protecting private information with strong passwords. Scholars and the international academic community have identified nine elements of digital citizenship. Being a good digital citizen includes learning to become an informed digital citizen, learning how to conduct online research, improving digital etiquette, and how to prevent, stop, and report cyber-bullying.