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Free lessons and games

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The Internet Keep Safe Coalition is dedicated to protecting children, families, and schools by assessing, advising, and certifying organizations that collect, use, and share personal information and data that is protected by law.

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Be Internet Awesome is a multifaceted program that includes a fun and free web-based game called Interland and an educational curriculum to teach kids how to be safe and responsible explorers of the online world.

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Teaching children to think before sharing...

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youtube videos for stage 2/3 and then high school classes

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Let's start with the obvious: Kids make mistakes. It's a normal -- and important -- part of growing up. But today, with smartphones, cameras, and social media everywhere, anything they do can be instantly broadcast and recorded -- the good, the bad, and the ugly. In our 24/7 digital world, kids come of age, learn, and make mistakes just like they always have, but the stakes are so much higher than in generations past. So what does this mean for kids' futures?

As teachers, we know that what kids post online about themselves and others can stick with them. And believe it or not, plenty of kids already know this, even when their actions may suggest otherwise. Lots of kids and teens -- maybe most of them -- know what it means to make good choices for themselves. But when faced with real-world situations, actually acting on this knowledge can be a lot more challenging. As one 13-year-old we interviewed noted, "if you're a teenager, you're gonna make bad decisions sometimes. And you might send an inappropriate picture. I mean, I hear about that a lot."

The slogan Think before you post! is central to so many aspects of digital citizenship. We say it out loud to our students; we get our students to repeat it back to us. But how can we help them actually act on this advice? The key is to give kids opportunities to grapple with the different ethical questions that come along with living in our digital world.

This is why we've continued our partnership with Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, to help us ground our updated curriculum in the latest research around kids and their digital lives. Led by Carrie James and Emily Weinstein, Project Zero's research project, Educating with Digital Dilemmas, explores how tweens and teens are navigating the personal, moral, ethical, and civic dilemmas of today's networked world and the roles adults can play to best support young people. As one middle school teacher in their research explained, "I'm not interested in just giving them a definition of sexting, because that's not going to help them make a decision at ten o'clock on a Saturday night."

Learn more about Common Sense's collaboration with Project Zero.

Lesson plans and resources

Common Sense's updated lessons are designed specifically to help kids develop both the skills and the habits of mind they need to thrive in our increasingly complex digital world. Looking to get started? Here are some lesson plans that support helping kids think before they post:

3rd-, 4th-, and 5th-grade lesson plans

This Is Me: This lesson is all about how we share information about ourselves and the assumptions others may make about us based on what we post. Students can reflect on how they want others to view them, then think critically about the online identities they're creating.

The Power of Words: Here, students can consider how others may interpret what they say and post in digital spaces. They can also identify ways to respond when they see others using mean or hurtful words online. With this lesson, you can help kids build empathy for others and learn strategies to use when they're confronted with cyberbullying.

Private and Personal Information: Sharing with others is a big part of being online today, but -- especially for kids -- it also comes with some risks. Can your students differentiate between private and personal information? Help them learn the difference.

Our Online Tracks: This lesson helps students define the term "digital footprint." They'll also have space to consider how different online activities contribute to people's digital footprints in different ways. Show your students how they can contribute to a positive digital reputation, both for themselves and for others when they're online.

Beyond Gender Stereotypes: Gender stereotypes in the media can affect the ways kids view both themselves and others. And on social media, it's easy for kids to share content that may reinforce hurtful or harmful biases. In this lesson, students will define what "gender stereotypes" are and think critically about the stereotypes they're seeing, and may be sharing, online.

Digital Friendships: Today, kids make friendships everywhere they go, including online. In this lesson, your students can explore some of the different types of friendships that happen online and consider both the benefits and risks that come with them.

6th-, 7th-, and 8th-grade lesson plans

Who Are You Online?: Many tweens and teens create different or alternate personas for themselves when they're online and on social media. But what does it mean for kids to "be yourself" or "be real"? Help your students explore both the benefits and drawbacks to posting from multiple accounts.

Chatting Safely Online: In this lesson, students can reflect on just how well they actually know the people they're interacting with online and the kinds of information they're sharing with others. Help your students learn about "red flag feelings" and the best ways to respond when they happen.

The Power of Digital Footprints: Here, students can analyze some sample digital footprints from two characters. They'll then be able to think critically about how their own digital footprints can lead others to draw conclusions -- both positive and negative -- about who they are.

Being Aware of What You Share: This lesson puts a slightly different spin on the concept of digital footprints, focusing mainly on the data that apps, websites, and other digital tools collect from users when they're online. Help your students think critically about who's collecting these types of data and how it's being used.

Social Media and Digital Footprints: Our Responsibilities: When it comes to kids' digital footprints, social media is ground zero. In this lesson, students can reflect on how the features of various social media platforms affect their own -- and their peers' -- digital footprints.

Sexting and Relationships: Most middle schoolers aren't ready for all the risks involved with exploring their sexuality in the digital age. Help your students think critically about self-disclosure in relationships, and give them opportunities to practice how they'd respond in a situation where sexting -- or a request for sexting -- might happen.

Looking for a lesson plan for grades K-2 or 9-12? Stay tuned! We're working hard to update these parts of the curriculum right now!

You can also visit our original lessons for grades K-12 here.
Image courtesy of Allison Shelley/The Verbatim Agency for American Education: Images of Teachers and Students in Action.

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How to Teach Your Students to Think Before They Post | Common Sense Education

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Let's start with the obvious: Kids make mistakes. It's a normal -- and important -- part of growing up. But today, with smartphones, cameras, and social media everywhere, anything they do can be instantly broadcast and recorded -- the good, the bad, and the ugly.

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How were the Habits of Mind derived? (Pt 1)

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Video describing the 16 Habits of Mind first introduced by Arthur Costa. Created for EDUC 8100, Advanced Study of Learning, Kennesaw State University, Summer 2014.

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This animation is part of a full series of animations to support younger learners exploring the Habits of Mind. The full set comes with 360 lessons and classroom activities. The three animations found here on the Habits of Mind YouTube Channel are free examples.

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Stick to it! Persevering in tasks through to completion; remaining focused. Look for ways to reach your goal when stuck. Not giving up.

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), Managing Director, Eduwebinar Pty Ltd, suggests that as schools move more towards technology integration in the classroom, addressing the development of digital citizenship skills, even from the youngest age, is pretty important to help students communicate and collaborate safely and responsibly online.

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Digital Citizenship Elements, Skills Development and Curriculum Connections
With Karen Bonanno, Managing Director, Eduwebinar Pty Ltd
Webinar replays - approximately 60 minutes each

As schools move more towards edtech integration in the classroom, addressing the development of digital citizenship skills, even from the youngest age, is pretty important to help students communicate and collaborate safely and responsibly online.

This three-part series on digital citizenship explores Ribble's nine elements of digital citizenship, learning activities and strategies to support the development of digital citizenship skills across all year levels, and the Australian Curriculum connections for Digital Technologies and the general capabilities.

Webinar 1 - Student learning and academic performance
Webinar 2 - School environment and student behaviour
Webinar 3 - Life outside the school environment

This webinar series will help you:

Define digital citizenship in the context of education.

Identify why it is important to incorporate digital citizenship in the classroom.

Understand the scope of each element and its relevance to knowledge and skills development.

Select activities and teaching strategies for classroom use to support knowledge and skills development.

Align digital citizenship to the Australia Curriculum.

This webinar is aligned to the following Australian Professional Standards for Teachers:
3.3.2 - Using teaching strategies
3.4.2 - Select and use resources

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Retech: Digital Innovation and Integration in the Classroom
With Helen Stower and Kathryn Schravemade, Mt Alvernia College
Webinar replay - 60 minutes

A key goal of future proof education is to ensure students are engaging with information, people and technologies as connected learners and that this engagement is effective, safe and ethical.

In a particular school setting, it was identified that traditional ICT subjects focused on the development of software usage skills, which no longer supported the evolving needs of students. Instead Helen and Kathryn needed students to develop skills in digital citizenship so that they could participate effectively in an online and networked world. Retech (Research and Technology) is a Middle Years learning experience that has developed in response to this need.

The presentation explores some of the skills taught in Retech:

Cybersafety & building a positive digital footprint;

Information literacies such as smart searching, curation, effective note taking, licensing and attribution;

Using blogs and social media for building a PLN (Personal Learning Network);

Collaboration through shared bookmarks, notes & Google Groups;

Inquiry and problem solving; and

Creating and presenting with digital tools such as video productions, podcasts and infographics.

Participants will leave this session with:

An outline of the Retech model and its place within the whole school curriculum;

An overview of the content and strategies used to build robust digital citizens through connecting, researching, creating and collaborating;

Resources used with students;

Tools utilised and skills developed by students;

Resources used to engage parents; and

Teacher professional development offered.

This webinar aligns with the following Australian Professional Standards for Teachers:
3.3.2 - Use teaching strategies
3.4.2 - Select and use resources

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Skills Students Need for the Future
With Karen Bonanno, Eduwebinar Pty Ltd
Webinar replay - 60 minutes

Global connectivity, new media, smart machines and superstructured organisations are some of the drivers that reshape how we think about the future working world and the skills needed to be responsible consumers and creators.

This webinar explores:

critical skills business owners are looking for,

key drivers and trends of change in the world of work, and

learning spaces, digital technologies and strategies that support skill development.

From this webinar you will be able to:

identify future work skills for student success,

design learning spaces to support critical skill development,

define technologies and digital strategies to integrate into the classroom.

This webinar aligns with the following Australian Professional Standards for Teachers:
3.3.2 - Use teaching strategies
3.4.2 - Select and use resources

[Members, please log in to access the additional resources that accompany this webinar replay.]

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What the experts say...

Ministerial Council On Education. Employment, Training And Youth Affairs have outlined goals in the Melbourne Declaration on Educational Goals for Young Australians. (2008)

The second goal clearly states that all young Australians become successful learners, confident and creative individuals, and active and informed citizens.

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Amber Vickers EDUC 8100 Fall 2014 Dr. Nita Paris KSU-- Created using PowToon -- Free sign up at http://www.powtoon.com/ . Make your own animated videos and animated presentations for free. PowToon is a free tool that allows you to develop cool animated clips and animated presentations for your website, office meeting, sales pitch, nonprofit fundraiser, product launch, video resume, or anything else you could use an animated explainer video.

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Live My Digital for students: Digital Footprint

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Great common sense video about the permanence of a digital footprint

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Follow the Digital Trail (2015 - OLD VERSION)

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The Global Digital Citizenship Organisation (2014) reports that in their experience, individuals who have adopted Habits of Mind as a way of being “thought-full” about life are more aware of and focused on the skills that impact their success.

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Take a moment to join us in a snapshot of a classroom we recently observed:

Students are hard at work designing a travel brochure as a part of their study of Ireland. They need to think about how much it will cost by air or by sea and develop a good rationale for why one way is preferable to another. They will also be including a recommended sightseeing schedule, determining why one schedule would be preferable to another.

These students have to analyze, evaluate, make decisions and communicate to an audience. As a group, they must work through this using the best of each student's contributions to create their product. They will need to persist, overcome challenges, strive for accuracy, think flexibly and think interdependently.

We like to call these mental qualities "Habits of Mind" - attitudes or dispositions that are necessary for thoughtful work. Without realizing it, people rely on these behaviors when they encounter problems that are difficult to solve.
Habits of Mind

1. Persisting: Stick to it! Persevering in task through to completion; remaining focused.

2. Managing impulsivity: Take your Time! Thinking before acting; remaining calm, thoughtful and deliberative.

3. Listening with understanding and empathy: Understand Others! Devoting mental energy to another person's thoughts and ideas; holding in abeyance one's own thoughts in order to perceive another's point of view and emotions

4. Thinking flexibly: Look at it Another Way! Being able to change perspectives, generate alternatives and consider options.

5. Thinking about your Thinking( Metacognition): Know your knowing! Being aware of one's own thoughts, strategies, feelings and actions and their effects on others.

6. Striving for accuracy and precision: Check it again! A desire for exactness, fidelity and craftsmanship.

7. Questioning and problem posing: How do you know? Having a questioning attitude; knowing what data are needed and developing questioning strategies.

8. Applying past knowledge to novel situations. Use what you Learn! Accessing prior knowledge; transferring knowledge beyond the situation in which it was learned.

9. Thinking and communicating with clarity and Precision: Be clear! Striving for accurate communication in both written and oral form; avoiding over-generalizations, distortions and deletions.

10. Gathering data through all senses: Use your natural pathways! Gathering data through all the sensory pathways-gustatory, olfactory, tactile, kinesthetic, auditory and visual.

11. Creating, imagining, and innovating Try a different way! Generating new and novel ideas, fluency and originality.

12. Responding with Wonderment and awe: Have fun figuring it out! Finding the world awesome, mysterious and being intrigued with phenomena and beauty.

13. Taking Responsible Risks: Venture out! Being adventuresome; living on the edge of one's competence.

14. Finding humor: Laugh a little! Finding the whimsical, incongruous and unexpected. Being able to laugh at oneself.

15. Thinking interdependently: Work together! Being able to work and learn from others in reciprocal situations.

16. Remaining open to continuous learning:Learn from experiences! Having humility and pride when admitting we don't know; resisting complacency.

Managing your impulsivity is a habit of mind that can take years to develop. For example, we might see a young student starting to work on the computer and becoming so impatient with the time it takes for a program to boot up that he clicks two or three times with frustration. All of a sudden, the computer freezes from too many demands, and then multiple screens appear at the same time. In that situation, we learn to manage our impulsivity, allowing ourselves the time to think before we act. Recent research indicates that the self-control of preschool students predicts their life satisfaction, crime record, income level, physical health and parenting skills. In this fast-moving 21 st century environment, students need to learn to think before they act.

The 16 Habits of Mind are drawn from a modern view of intelligence that casts off traditional abilities-centered theories and replaces them with a growth mindset for remaining open to continuous learning, another important habit. These habits are often called soft skills or non-cognitive skills. In fact, these skills are among the most difficult to develop because they require a great deal of consciousness. Ultimately, they become an internal compass that helps us answer the question, "What is the most 'thought-full' thing that I can do right now?"

It may take many years for the Habits of Mind to become internalized. For most, it is a lifetime endeavor. To strengthen the habits over time so they become natural for children, teachers and parents might do the following:

1. Build awareness. Students must have a conceptual understanding of the meaning of each of the habits. Can they describe what it looks like, sounds like and feels like? Can they give some examples and non-examples?

2. Develop skills and strategies. Can students execute the Habits of Mind with confidence, grace and style?

3. Call attention to situational alertness. Are students alert to diverse situations in which the habits are appropriate (or inappropriate)?

4. Foster autonomy. Do they listen autonomously - without prompting or being reminded by others?

5. Explore benefits and values. Do students realize the benefits and values of choosing to use each of the Habits of Mind?

6. Encourage self-monitoring. Do the students reflect on their skillfulness? Do they advocate for the use of the Habits of Mind when they see that other individuals and groups need them?

7. Reflect on mindfulness. Are the habits used consciously, proactively and intentionally?

In our experience, individuals who have adopted Habits of Mind as a way of being "thought-full" about life are more aware of and focused on the skills that impact their success. Similarly, schools that adopt Habits of Mind as a part of their vision have seen a tremendous change in the culture of the school. The school has become a learning community in which all members, parents, community, teachers and students are acting with thought. One school at a time, one district at a time, one state at a time, one nation at a time, we can create a more "thought-full" way to solve our 21 st century problems.

- Via Smartblogs
This article appeared on the SmartBlog on Education July 15 2014 and was researched and written by Arthur Costa, Bena Kallick, and Morton Sherman. About the Authors
Arthur Costa is professor emeritus at California State University, Sacramento. He is a co-founder and director of the Institute for Habits of Mind. Bena Kallick is an educational consultant based in Westport, Conn. He is also a co-founder and director of the Institute for Habits of Mind. Morton Sherman is the superintendent in residence for the American Association of School Administrators (AASA). He is also the executive director of the Institute for Habits of Mind. Through a partnership with WonderGroveLearn, all three authors are co-creators of 16 instructional animations to illustrate the habits.

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Game provides tools for keeping personal information safe online.
https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/media/game-0013-case-cyber-criminal

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Google classroom resource aligned to Common Sense scope and sequence

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Google classroom resource aligned to Common Sense scope and sequence

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Paid resource but time is money ;)
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Internet-Safety-Digital-Interactive-Notebook-K-5-Bundle-2430247

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A great framework with fantastic resources aligned.

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Common Sense Education provides educators and students with the resources they need to harness the power of technology for learning and life. Find a free K-12 Digital Citizenship curriculum, reviews of popular EdTech apps, and resources for protecting student privacy.

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Digital Citizenship Resources for Educators | Edutopia

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eSafety

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Classroom Resources (including K-6) This page contains links to a variety of programs, age appropriate to all stages of the Curriculum.

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Classroom Resources (including K-6) This page contains links to a variety of programs, age appropriate to all stages of the Curriculum.

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https://www.esafety.gov.au/education-resources/classroom-resources

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Visit the wordpress for a detailed description and fantastic ideas!
https://dborck.wordpress.com/2013/09/07/digital-citizenship-interactive-bulletin-board/

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Focusing on the 5 P's
https://elenikyritsis.com/2015/11/21/5ps-for-a-positive-digital-footprint/

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http://www.brilliant-insane.com/2014/12/9-traits-good-digital-citizens.html?utm_content=buffer34a9c&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer&crlt.pid=camp.PDbObOUn5f7x

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http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/youre-watched-online/

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Ribble, Bailey & Ross, 2004 and Ribble & Bailey, 2004a believe that technology misuse/abuse is a crisis situation that demands an intelligent, “teaching” response. They suggest that you cannot legislate appropriate technology behavior—you have to teach appropriate behavior. This “teaching solution” is called Digital Citizenship— teaching appropriate technology behavior.

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http://www.groton.k12.ct.us/Page/15047