Digital Citizen Presentations November 2 and 6

Expert Groups

Sharing Content Products:

• Theme Document (poster, infographic, brochure)
• Engagement tool (kahoot, poll everywhere, socrative,...)
• Presentation online tool (comic book, podcast, animated, book, flipsnack, ...)
• Source Curation (share how you found quality resources and share at least 4 sources via pinterest, symbaloo, padlet,)  

Presentation Content:

• examples of what this means for primary, middle, high school (and home if different)
• definition of your elements
• share key vocabulary (and define)
• theme or slogan of your presentation
• real life lesson example 

Full Checklist HERE and handed out in class

MODEL (and Mrs. Poling/Arjona will present another full model on 10/23)

Example Prezi (focused on young elementary) (similar project but done alone and with slightly different requirements, but gives you a model to build from!)  

Thoughts about the presentation- key concepts:

My approach to the project was teaching primary teachers how to teach the foundational concepts of Digital Citizenship to children in their early elementary years, when they are just learning about the online world, the internet, cell phones and other digital media. It’s really relevant to me partly because my daughter is in kindergarten (and is needing to learn these concepts) and also because this is the age I enjoy teaching the most.

For me, it was a really enjoyable exploration of many videos and articles and curriculum. In the end, the resource I will probably go back to time and time again is Common Sense Media. I really appreciated the straightforward curriculum they provided about this topic as well as the relevant videos.

I had pretty much concluded that there were five main concepts that I wanted to teach young students and this is how I had laid it out:

A good digital citizen is…

1. respectful of others and themselves

2. wise with private information

3. careful when something doesn’t feel right

4. brave when they see or experience bullying

5. balanced in how they spend their time online

Then, as I was looking for one last video to complete the prezi (and only really had some final text and the audio tracks to complete), I came upon this YouTube video that pulled it all together. Not surprisingly, it was also from CommonSense Media and contained all the resources I needed even to do my audio tracks and add in some great visuals! I was pretty excited because it was such a simple way to teach these concepts all in one song with super cute characters. My daughter loved the song and was “singing” along the first time she heard it even though she didn’t know the words. :) I’m sure we’ll use it again as I start to teach her these concepts at home. I’d like to do some of the activities and worksheets with her this summer since I think it will be a fun and useful enrichment activity for her to do on the break.

Obviously because I’ve chosen very young students as target group for these learning skills, there is still a wide range of digital citizenship topics that I could still learn more about. However, I’ve been downloading much of the free curriculum and watching videos at CommonSense Media (for older students) and so the learning continues in this regard. With so many different resources out there, it can be somewhat overwhelming to know where to begin. And yet, it’s really amazing to find one site that has everything that I’m personally looking for: videos, curriculum (teacher guides and worksheet booklets), parent guides and great articles on a variety of topics. My takeaway from this project is that site, and it will be an important part of my PLN as well!