Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Digital Citizenship
Virtual learning resource on rights and responsibilities as consumers and producers of digital media and the internet. Click through the pages for more information. Includes handouts, audio, downlodable resources, assessment and activities.
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University of Potomac: Online Etiquette: 14 Netiquette Rules Online Students Should Know
Netiquette guidelines are a set of rules that dictate what tasteful and respectful online behavior is. How to speak respectfully without taking part in disrespect or bullying is among the main reasons why we need these rules. These rules...
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Education: Lesson: Super Digital Citizen: Grades 3 5
Students explore what it means to be responsible and respectful to their offline and online communities as a step toward learning how to be good digital citizens. Students create digital superheroes who exhibit exemplary attributes and...
Goodwill
Gcf Global: Being a Good Digital Citizen
No matter where you go online, being a good digital citizen can make your experience smoother and safer. Thankfully, you can become a better digital citizen by following the simple steps outlined in this tutorial. [2:39]
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Education: The Power of Digital Footprints
Our digital footprints can impact our future. What others find about us online shapes how they see us or feel about us. Help your students learn about their digital footprint and the steps they can take to shape what others find and see...
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Cpsr: Netiquette Training Whose Responsibility?
CPSR offers an article on the need to train new Internet users about netiquette. Includes experiences with E-mail, need for netiquette, and additional resources.
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Kings Canyon Unified School District: Digital Citizenship Lesson [Pdf]
A lesson script to use with young scholars before viewing a 5-minute video called Faux Paw's Adventures on the Internet, and for reviewing the rules of Internet safety after watching the video. The video can be found on Youtube by...
PBS
Pbs: Frontline: Digital Nation: Life on the Virtual Frontier
Explore the wide-ranging impact that living digitally is having on people's lives every day, and the far-reaching implications this has for society, relationships, how war is waged, our health, education, and what the future holds....
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Creating a Safe Persona on the Internet
Contains plans for five lessons that explore naming conventions and safety on the internet. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as assessment and reflection...
Other
Digital Citizenship: Acceptable Technology
The Acceptable Use Policy is used in schools to help govern how technology and the Internet are used within the classroom. It is an agreement that is signed by both the parents and the student stating that they will follow the rules set...
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Education: Lesson: Pause and Think
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, the Digital Citizens teach young scholars how to be safe, responsible, and respectful online. Includes slideshow, video, lesson plan, song and lyrics, poster, coloring book, and...
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Education: Lesson: Who Is in Your Online Community?
[Free Registration/Login Required] By learning the Rings of Responsibility, 2nd graders explore how the Internet connects us to people in our community and throughout the world. Help students to think critically about the different ways...
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University of Florida
University of Florida: Netiquette Guide for Online Courses [Pdf]
This guide provides tips for how to behave during an online course and just in general when you communicate through the Internet. It looks at password protection, online communication, email, and message boards.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Kids Safety: Using the Internet
On this website, students can explore how to use the internet safely. This site has students learning web safety with tips from the FBI.
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Education: Rings of Responsibility: Grades 3 5
Young scholars explore what it means to take on responsibilities in both their offline and online communities as a way to learn how to be good digital citizens. Students sit in circles, which depict the "Rings of Responsibility," in...
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B4 U Surf: Cyber Safety Glossary
The Cyber Safety Glossary provides useful information to educate you about illegal, fraudulent schemes and how to avoid them.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Cybersecurity and Economics: Protecting Your Identity Online
Help learners answe the esential question, "What should you do before you share information on the Internet?"
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Elk Grove Unified School District: Digital Citizenship: Digital Footprint
A digital footprint is all of the information online about a person either posted by that person or others, intentionally or unintentionally. Filling out a form, leaving a blog comment, updating your status, checking into a location,...
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Scholastic
Scholastic: Online Safety: It Starts With You [Pdf]
More and more, kids are using the internet for amazing things like research, entertainment, to connect with friends, and more. But without clear guidelines, the digital world can be a tough place to navigate. These lessons are designed...
Google
Google: Be Internet Awesome: Interland
Kids can play their way to being Internet Awesome with Interland, an online adventure that puts the key lessons of digital safety into hands-on practice with four challenging games. Play your way to being an Internet Legend!
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Common Sense Media: The Power of Words [Pdf]
Young scholars consider that while they are enjoying their favorite websites they may encounter messages from other kids that can make them feel angry, hurt, sad, or fearful. They explore ways to handle cyberbullying and how to respond...
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Common Sense Media: Private and Personal Information [Pdf]
In this lesson young scholars learn the difference between private information and personal information, distinguishing what is safe and unsafe to share online.
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Cic Online: Cyberbullying: Identify and Respond [Pdf]
With this resource, learn how to know when cyberbullying is happening and how to confront the problem. PDF (requires Adobe Reader).
PBS
Pbs Frontline: Growing Up Online
Information and analysis on the practices and habits of children and teens who live their lives online. Focus is on teen culture in the digital age and on how online media have intensified fears of the dangerous dimensions of adolescence.