After looking at the 9Ps by Vicki Davis in the "What Your Students Really Need to Know About Digital Citizenship" I realize I only explicitly teach #6 permission and #8 professionalism. This is probably because they pertain directly to my content standards. In my 7th grade science class we use technology all the time. I do hold them accountable for academic language when doing blogs and replying to classmates with written communication and collaboration grades. I got the sentence frames that are used in their language arts classes so there is some consistency. They must also cite references. As far as the others like pictures, I try and embed and model good digital citizenship, mostly address things as they arise. The one thing I haven't thought about was passwords, most programs we use they can sign in using their google accounts. Should they be changing them up?
Some ways I want to incorporate digital citizenship in my science classes are to have be efficient in searching the internet, be able to Identify reliable sources and have them understand they leave a digital footprint. I have really noticed students don't have these skills. There was a good lesson plan on Hurricane Katrina on the Stanford’s History Education Group (SHEG) website that helped students Identify what is and isn't a legitimate online source. I could incorporate this into our unit on earth's processes. I also am going us common sense media's resources on Information Literacy. they define Information Literacy as " Information literacy includes the ability to identify, find, evaluate, and use information effectively. From effective search strategies to evaluation techniques, students learn how to evaluate the quality, credibility, and validity of websites, and give proper credit." Pretty much hits what I need my kids to do in science. Too many to list so here's the Link I really think digital citizenship needs to be explicitly taught but with the pressures we have to create and cover content it is hard to fit it into a science class. I try to embed it when I can
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Marisabel Olguin
2/11/2018 07:20:52 pm
I find myself embedding digital citizenship in many of our subjects as well. I hadn't realized it before this session. When I work on citing with my students I always mention plagiarism and why it is important to give credit where credit is due. Now with these new online sources with great interactive games I know my students will enjoy learning these important skills. Does your school have Digital Citizenship as a course? Now that you realize you are only covering #6 and #8 which of the other 9P's do you see yourself explicitly teaching?
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Jose Cerda
2/11/2018 08:27:00 pm
I am also interested in using the Stanford History Education Group site with my students. I think I would be able to use the same model to see what my students think about different sources and go over source credibility. Even though some of the resources seem to be for older students, having the assessment rubrics would be useful when having students do their research and seeing what they think is a good source. I hope you share how this works out for your students.
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Benjamin Scinto
2/12/2018 08:50:40 pm
You mention passwords and I learned something years ago that I still use - not really a commentary but hey, who cares. I document all my accounts and their user names and "passwords" in a google sheet and maintain a final column that communicates a code about the password that I would only know and therefore use, e.g., WellsFargo UN:BenScinto PW:BenScinto Code: BA. Only I know what the BA stands for which enables me to have everything out in the open.
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Scott Marsden
2/13/2018 02:53:29 pm
I'm glad you found the Vicki Davis 9 P's of digital citizenship relevant to your practice. I do think we need to embed digital citizenship in what we teach, specific to grade level, subject, project. For example, in Digital Media, I make a big emphasis on copyright and using Creative Commons. I'm glad you found SHEG relevant; at my school, all 12th graders are using this with their English and Social Studies classes. We are starting with the Facebook argument lesson in Gov; English is doing one about climate change.
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