Digital Citizenship Week: Oct 15-19

National Digital Citizenship Week is a great opportunity to share best practices for online and social media. Below you will find ready-made resources so you can integrate digital citizenship in your own classroom next week and beyond.

• The Birdville Nest site has aligned Digital Citizenship Elements with Birdville ISD's Core Values. Select any element to access classroom lessons. 
• Embed Digital Citizenship into All Subject Areas with these tools from the ISTE blog or browse all of their resources for digital citizenship. 
• Common Sense Media has tons of lessons, activities, and videos for teaching digital citizenship. Browse their library of resources by grade level. 
• Try the "Be Internet Awesome" curriculum developed by Google and iKeepSafe for middle and high school students. 
• Teaching Channel teamed up Common Sense Media to go inside classrooms where students are getting hands-on instruction in safe, responsible, and meaningful ways to use the Internet. These videos will provide a peek into other classrooms to see how educators are teaching digital citizenship. 
• Download a variety of infographics, posters, and images from this digital citizenship Pinterest board.
• If podcasts are more your thing, take some time to listen to The Cool Cat Teacher (Vicki Davis). Episode 365 of her podcast is titled:5 WAYS TO TEACH DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP (AND THE 9 KEY P’S OF DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP)

Have a great week and be safe. Internet Safe!