Chapter Overview
In this Chapter, I share examples of teachers who are empowering their students to use social media in the context of the classroom and offer some ideas and questions to ensure that you are not just focusing on safe and ethical use of technology but moving beyond that to digital leadership.
In the Chapter
Sylvia Duckworth visualized Mike Ribble’s 9 Elements of Digital Citizenship in this sketchnote.
Google Classroom For Fun: Master Copy created by Julie Millan.
Responsible Use Image and Collaborative Google Slide
Modifiable THINK poster can be found here.
Digital Citizenship Education in Saskatchewan Schools created by Alec Couros and Katia Hildebrandt in collaboration with a larger working group, is perhaps my favourite resource. It aligns with my thinking about situating learning of using social media in context and is a comprehensive, thoughtful and thorough approach, framed around Mike Ribble’s 9 Elements of Digital Citizenship The K-12 continuum in this resource is organized using Essential Questions and what students need to Know Understand and be able to Do.
A class social media account is a great way to teach digital leadership in context. Link to Edutopia article. I’ve also created some guiding questions & considerations. Google Drawings copy. Google Doc planning worksheet.
Beyond the Chapter
MAD PD: Class Social Media Accounts webinar
Social media test drive simulations
Be Internet Awesome was launched by Google after the book went to publication. Check it out here and check out my post reflecting on it here.
ISTE has really moved towards some of the ideas presented in Social LEADia. This infographic, Citizenship in the Digital Age is a good one!
ISTE has also created a robust resource to support teachers called, DigCitCommit. Check it out here.
Think, Respect, and Thrive Online by ETFO has detailed lessons and ideas for K-8.
Global Digital Citizen What I really like about this resource, curated by Lee Watanabe Crockett and Andrew Churches, is the fact that it truly considers the whole person; on and offline. It focuses on five tenets: Personal Responsibility, Global Citizenship, Digital Citizenship, Altruistic Service, Environmental Stewardship
They offer a free, downloadable kit which includes a variety of really good strategies to look at students rights and responsibilities more positively. There is also a “Fluency Snapshot” checklist which provides an excellent springboard for showing kids what they “should” do rather than what they “can’t” do.
Common Sense media offers a continuum of skills offered by topic beginning from kindergarten to grade 12. Lessons are available as PDF downloads, as well as Nearpod lessons, and iBooks (for purchase) for an agnostic experience for students. They are organized in the following way: Self Image & Identity, Relationships & Communication, Digital Footprint & Reputation, Cyberbullying & Digital Drama, Information Literacy, Internet Safety, Privacy & Security, and Creative Credit & Copyright.
Media Smarts is a resource for digital and media literacy and is grounded on ongoing national research on Canadian children and teens and their experiences with networked technologies. The resources are relevant to any educator. They use the following framework: Ethics and Empathy, Consumer Awareness, Privacy and Security, Finding and Verifying, Community Engagement, Making and Remixing,
IKeepSafe is a non-profit organization which adopts a global citizen approach. ” It contends that modern technologies like telephones, television, and most of all, the Internet, allow for a global society where individuals can access information from around the world—in real time—despite being thousands of miles from the source of the content This is how they organize their topics: Balance, Ethics, Privacy, Reputation, Relationships, Online Security
Let’s Talk About It
Use #SocialLEADia on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter to talk about your successes with Digital Citizenship.