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With the evident rise in using technology, digital citizenship is becoming more and more important. As a citizen, I must be displaying the proper, correct, beneficial, and safe ways when I use technology and its content. Prior to learning about digital citizenship, I was innocently taking photos from the internet to use, thinking that citing the source was enough; however, that is not the case. Luckily, with creative commons, I am able to use ideas, knowledge, and content, such as pictures, from others through the use of free legal tools. Since learning about digital citizenship, I am constantly thinking twice before I use content off the internet. As a citizen, it is my job to know my rights, roles, and responsibilities in a digital society. Similarly, as a teacher, it is my job to teach students about their rights, roles, and responsibilities in a digital society, as well. Yet, what I have discovered through articles and blogs from other educators, it is not merely enough if I am only teaching my students what it means to be a digital citizen, I must be modeling, demonstrating, and encouraging it every chance I have inside the classroom. Also, I must allow opportunities for my students to model and demonstrate their digital citizenship skills and knowledge. Digital citizenship is not an option; rather digital citizenship is a key element which will play a significant role in my classroom by constantly engaging in it every day, every chance we have. Below I have featured useful information and links to display how I plan to model digital citizenship as a teacher and how I will encourage effective digital citizenship for my students.
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Creative commons is a non-profit organization I use to demonstrate and model digital citizenship. Through Creative Commons I am able to freely and legally add songs, photos, videos, and other content to academic material to enhance my lessons and my students knowledge on digital citizenship. Also, I am able to share my work with others giving people the right to share, use, and even build upon what I have created. Click on the Creative Commons icon, placed on the side, for more information.
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Purdue OWL is a great resource I will refer to when needing strategies to teach students to write. I feel this site could be very useful for fourth graders when it comes time to prepare for the state writing test. I feel that if I show my students this resource when they are in fourth grade, they will be more likely to use it again in eighth grade, as well as their junior year. Purdue OWL has helped me greatly when it comes to citing my resources- see resource tab for an example. I will use this website when teaching my students about how to cite resources. One thing I love about Purdue OWL is that it does not do the work for the teachers or the students but rather provides the necessary tips and guidelines needed. By no means do I feel like a writing expert; however, I feel more confident about teaching writing knowing I can refer to Purdue OWL and find a resource for almost any issue I may encounter. Click on the Purdue Owl icon, placed above, for more information.
Digital Citizenship Lessons and Activities
I will show this YouTube video to my class to give them an overview on digital citizenship and how it applies to them. To encourage effective digital citizenship for my students, as a class we will create our own YouTube video over what digital citizenship means to us, using iMovie, similar to how this class from Standing Bear Elementary did.
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Another way I will encourage effective digital citizenship for my students is by having students in small groups or individually, create flyers to advertise digital citizenship, what it is, why it is important, and what it means to them. The students will create the flyers using the free online resource Smore. Once these flyers are completed we will post them in our classroom and computer labs to remind us and other students that we need to demonstrate digital citizenship in all that we do with technology. Click on the Smore icon to view the format of the flyer the students will be completing.
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Click on the buttons below to read some of my favorite blogs for more information on digital citizenship!