Strategies+for+promoting+digital+citizenship+at+multiple+levels+(classroom-school+wide)

===  Before YOU can teach it, YOU must be "in the know"! ===

**What do you know about: **
Predator danger? Cyberbullying? Sexting? Inappropriate content? Security risks and identity theft? How youth are using social media? Risk prevention? Walled Gardens (Web portals for kids)?

Recommendations:

 * Create a Digital Literacy Corps for schools and communities nationwide
 * Make evaluation a component of all federal and federally funded online safety education programs (evaluation involving risk-prevention expertise)
 * Establish industry best practices
 * Encourage full, safe use of digital media in schools' regular instruction and professional development in their use as a high priority for educators nationwide
 * Respect young people's expertise and get them involved in risk-prevention education (OSTWG, 2010).

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Go to the link below to find out more!
===<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Youth Safety on a Living Internet: Report of the Online Safety and Technology Working Group] ===

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Respect, Educate and Protect (REPs) (Ribble, 2012)
<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">The concept of REPs is a way to explain as well as teach the themes of digital citizenship. Each area encompasses three topics which should be taught beginning at the kindergarten level. When teaching these ideas, the top theme from each group would be taught as one REP. For example, the first REP would be: Etiquette, Communication and Rights/Responsibilities. This would continue through REPs two and three. By doing this all students will have covered the topics and everyone would understand the basic ideas of digital citizenship. <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">- Etiquette <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">- Access <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">- Law <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">- Communication <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">- Literacy <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">- Commerce <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">-Rights and Responsibility <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">- Safety (Security) <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">- Health and Welfare
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Respect Yourself/Respect Others **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Educate Yourself/Connect with Others **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Protect Yourself/Protect Others **

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Strategies for you, as suggested by Ribble, Bailey, and Ross (2004):

 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Follow rules and policies established by the school or district for appropriate technology use.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Use case studies or [|scenarios] to illustrate appropriate and inappropriate ways of using technology.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Model appropriate uses of technology in and out of the classroom.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Model good use of electronic communication (e.g., sending messages that are to the point, avoiding shorthand when it is not appropriate).
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Encourage students to use digital communication, but correct them when they are doing something inappropriate.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Use e-mail in situations where short responses are most appropriate.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Use cell phones for learning purposes (e.g., accessing information in real time).
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Create activities and exercises that allow students to use PDAs to retrieve, store, and share information in a responsible fashion.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Encourage students to come up with new and alternative uses for the Internet and digital technologies (e.g., IM or online discussion boards).
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Provide learning opportunities in different technology modes (e.g., Web sites, chat rooms, course management systems).
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Teach information literacy (e.g., identifying, accessing, applying, and creating information) by using technology-infused projects.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Identify students who have special needs or circumstances and explore ways to accommodate their technology needs (e.g., assistive technology).
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Advocate the creation of Web sites that enable everyone to have equal access both in language and structure.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Advocate for technology access for all students irrespective of disabilities. For example, either adhere to the World Wide Web Consortium’s guidelines for Web site creation or ask that those in your school or district who create Web pages adhere to these guidelines.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Provide time for students to use school technology to work on assignments.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Allow students to work together on assignments (i.e., pair students with no or limited access to technology with others who have significantly greater access).
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Engage students in a dialogue about using technology to purchase goods and services.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Engage students in a discussion about good and bad experiences of purchasing goods online.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Ask students to read comparison shopping Web sites such as CNET or AddALL to analyze comparative shopping strategies.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Teach students about the dangers of identity theft and how to protect themselves.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Use materials from Junior Achievement to illustrate the cost of illegal downloading from the Internet.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Open a dialogue on students’ feelings regarding their material being downloaded without permission.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Discuss with students the school’s codes of conduct as well as specific laws as they relate to illegal use of technology and the consequences
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Teach faculty about student digital rights.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Teach students about their digital rights.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Engage the school community in discussion of why school and district policies regarding technology exist.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Provide students with information about appropriate and inappropriate use of technology in school.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Engage students about the differences between rights in school and outside school when using technology.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Explore Web sites (e.g., UCLA’s ergonomics site) to learn new ways for using technology safely.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Make sure that rooms are well lit, and provide appropriately sized furniture for the technology use.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Make students aware of the longterm physical effects of certain technology use.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Contact organizations (e.g., i-SAFE America) to obtain materials about protecting online users.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Research what your school does to provide protection from possible outside digital harm.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Teach students to back up data and protect their equipment from damage.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Teach students how to conduct regular checks for viruses or other software intrusions using approved software. The National Cyber Security Alliance stated that 67% of broadband users don’t have properly installed and securely confi gured firewalls.

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Other resources available to you:
<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Digital Citizenship: Using Technology Appropriately] <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Teaching Digital Citizenship in the Elementary Classroom] <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|For Teachers and Parents]

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