Bird is the word! Show scholars why, although it's neat to tweet, safe and smart is the best way to start! A short digital citizenship video demonstrates Twitter's micro-blogging concept and discusses appropriate content.

Concepts

twitter, the internet, internet safety, privacy, friendship, respect, responsibility

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Additional Tags

classroom support

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Instructional Ideas

• Take Twitter's concept and let students create Internet safety micro-blogs to spread the word
• Have the class compare and contrast Twitter with another major social media app 
  

Classroom Considerations

• Project Twitter's privacy policy for the entire class to review
  

• This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

• Images of real Twitter pages and accounts make the resource realistic
• The video points out the ways users capture content and reuse it without your knowledge, an important safety issue
  

Cons

• None

Common Core

SL.3.2 SL.4.2 SL.5.2 SL.6.2 SL.7.2 SL.8.2 SL.9-10.2 SL.11-12.2