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Students cultivate and manage their digital identity and reputation and are aware of the permanence of their actions in the digital world.

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Students engage in positive, safe, legal and ethical behavior when using technology, including social interactions online or when using networked devices.

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Students demonstrate an understanding of and respect for the rights and obligations of using and sharing intellectual property.

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Students manage their personal data to maintain digital privacy and security and are aware of data-collection technology used to track their navigation online.

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Global Standards for Digital Intelligence

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Digital Citizenship is a timely and much-needed response to California and federal mandates. The California School Library Association (CSLA) sponsors this online course for educators and their K-12 students. Lead developer is Dr. Lesley Farmer.

Welcome

Thank you for participating in our tutorial, https://csulblis.libguides.com/K12DigitalCitizenship. There is no cost other than the time you invest in learning and sharing what you learn. This tutorial is brought to you by the California School Library Association and California State University Long Beach.

The digital society is here, so what is digital citizenship? Just as we are citizens of a physical country, so are we citizens of the digital world. Just as we need to obey the laws, and not harm anyone, that same spirit exists in the digital world - and it impacts the physical world as well. The mean words and pictures that are posted online, can hurt people in their daily lives at school and in their community.

But citizenship means more than behaving responsibly, it also means that we should be civically engaged: voting, keeping current and having our voice in political matters, and contributing to society. To this end, we need to get accurate information, and decide the verity of political messages that surround us. This same pro-active attitude and behavior also applies to the digital environment. Technology enables us to research significant social issues and to voice our opinions to a global audience.

In short, digital citizenship means the ability to use technology safely, responsibly, critically, and pro-actively to contribute to society.

Digital citizenship is a worthy endeavor, and it is also the law. California AB 307 requires district technology plans to "include a component to educate pupils and teachers on the appropriate and ethical use of information technology in the classroom." Governor Arnold Scharzenegger's Executive Order S-06-09 established a California ICT Digital Literacy initiative, asserting that "it is an important goal to ensure that California residents are digitally literate." Similarly, the federal S 1492 Broadband Data Improvement Act (Public Law 110-385), also titled Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act, mandates that all schools receiving e-rate discounts must teach students "about appropriate online behavior, including interacting with other individuals on social networking sites and in chat rooms and cyberbullying awareness and response."

These acts focus on technological education, especially the K-12 area. The federal act targets minors, and emphasizes web 2.0 activities such as social networking and cyberbullying. The state act includes teachers into the educational mix, and has a more positive spin of ethical literacy and digital citizenship as well as a broader scope. The governor's order has a lifelong agenda. As such, you will see resources for the entire school community because digital citizenship is a 24/7 endeavor.

The site https://csulblis.libguides.com/K12DigitalCitizenship is a central wiki for digital citizenship. Below is the outline for each module. The links below will take you to the specific learning session. Work at your own pace to explore and do activities to increase your understanding. We encourage you to keep a blog as a means to record and share your experiences.

Module #1: What is digital citizenship?

1. Check out one of the PowerPoint presentations to learn about digital citizenship.

2. Adapt it for use at your site.

Module #2: What are standards for digital citizenship?

1. Link a set of content standards with the model school library standards in light of digital citizenship.

2. Brainstorm learning activities that could incorporate both sets of standards.

Module #3: How can students incorporate technology to contribute to the digital world?

1. Read about ways that students can use technology to get engaged civically.

2. Suggest a digital service project.

Module #4: What tools support digital citizenship?

1. Try out some tools that can be used to foster digital citizenship.

2. Match tools with digital responsibility standards.

Module #5: How can digital citizenship be taught?

1. Test a couple of lessons that deal with digital citizenship.

2. Try writing your own lesson, or collaborate with a colleague to do so.

Module #6: What resources are available to support digital citizenship?

1. Explore some of the resources that can inform you and your school community.

2. Create lists of relevant digital citizenship resources.

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Digital Citizenship is a timely and much-needed response to California and federal mandates. The California School Library Association (CSLA) sponsors this online course for educators and their K-12 students. Lead developer is Dr. Lesley Farmer. Welcome Thank you for participating in our tutorial, https://csulblis.libguides.com/K12DigitalCitizenship. There is no cost other than the time you invest in...

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The internet is an amazing tool for teaching and learning. But, before we can teach students to harness its power and become good citizens of the web, we need to understand the intricacies of how it works and how it can be manipulated to mislead and even harm users.
Learning the Landscape of Digital Literacy

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Digital and Civic Literacy Skills The internet is an amazing tool for teaching and learning. But, before we can teach students to harness its power and become good citizens of the web, we need to understand the intricacies of how it works and how it can be manipulated to mislead and even harm users.

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A collection of articles, videos, and other resources on internet safety, cyberbullying, digital responsibility, and media and digital literacy.

Digital Responsibility

The Basics of Open Technology by Ira Socol (2015): From abundant tools and smart budgeting to accessibility and trust, the Albemarle County Public Schools district maintains a tech program that leverages digital literacy for all students.

Five-Minute Film Festival: Are We Addicted to Technology? by Amy Erin Borovoy (2014): Can't put your device down? Obsessing over social media? You may want to dig in to this playlist of videos and resources to help educators, parents, and students reflect on their relationship with technology.

Common Core in Action: Teaching Online Ethics by Heather Wolpert-Gawron (2014): A look at a key element of digital citizenship-responsible use of intellectual property-and the eighth-grade Common Core standard for gathering, using, and attributing relevant information.

Five-Minute Film Festival: Copyright and Fair Use for Educators by Amy Borovoy (2013): In K-12 education, it's a challenge to navigate the copyright and fair use waters. What can educators use? How can they use it? We have some fun, engaging videos to help teachers and students understand this confusing subject.

Media and Digital Literacy

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A collection of articles, videos, and other resources on internet safety, cyberbullying, digital responsibility, and media and digital literacy.

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Cyberbullying

About 88% of social media-using teens have witnessed other people being mean or cruel on social networking sites. Approximately 34% of students report experiencing cyberbullying.

Sexual Harassment

Some 21% of women ages 18 to 29 report being sexually harassed online. About 53% of young women ages 18 to 29 say that someone has sent them explicit images they did not ask for.

Propaganda

Social media has been infiltrated with propaganda by a hostile foreign government in an attempt to influence our democratic elections. On Facebook alone, Russian-influenced content reached 126 million Americans between June 2015 and August 2017.

Depression And Suicide

In 2018, the average teen spent 9 hours a day online. Teens using social media more than 5 hours daily were 70% more likely to have suicidal thoughts or actions than those who reported one hour of daily use.

Hate Speech

About 64%of U.S. teens have encountered hate speech online.

It is simple. It is intuitive. It can make social media safer for us all. But, most adults and teens are not doing it: blocking and reporting obscene, hateful, and threatening content.
Cyberbullying, hate speech, sexual harassment, propaganda are just some of the social media-related dangers that come in the form of posts, comments, or messages.

To be clear, the harm this content can cause is severe. Ten percent of cyberbullying victims attempt suicide. Social media-spread hate speech has spurred horrific mass shootings. And, propaganda has the potential to fundamentally undermine our democracy.

In theory, we should have more control over these dangerous posts, as all social media content exists entirely by the consent of the social media platform. That means that the content can be de-emphasized or removed. And, the poster can be hidden from individual feeds or removed from the platform altogether. Ultimately, if the platform can quickly remove harmful content, the platform can limit its harm. And, if the platform can remove or deter offenders, especially repeat offenders, the platform can prevent harm altogether.

That is why we emphasize to teens and parents the importance of developing a habit of reporting harmful content to the platform and then blocking the offender from their own social media pages. By blocking and reporting harmful content, we can not only protect ourselves, individually, from dangerous content, but, through reporting, we can do our part to make the entire social media community safer.

Unfortunately, blocking and reporting will never be a complete remedy:

Reporting problematic content does not always result in having the content removed from the platform.

Platforms' guidelines for removing content can vary widely.

Reporting will not completely stop determined, sophisticated actors, especially those using bots, that conceal their identities online for the purpose of spreading harmful content.

But, even though blocking and reporting are not complete defenses against social media-related dangers, they are still very important actions to undertake. Not only does the habit of blocking and reporting help the platform remove unscrupulous or dangerous users but it also encourages us and our teens to habitually look at content critically instead of mindlessly consuming and absorbing. One of the biggest dangers we face from hateful or obscene content is that it becomes normalized and no longer shocks our collective conscience. By actively engaging their minds and being on the lookout for inappropriate or dangerous posts when scrolling through social media, our teens are constantly defending their minds from racism, misogyny, homophobia, and propaganda.

That is why the importance of blocking and reporting should be one of the first conversations you have with your teen when you allow them into the world of social media.

We know that it is very challenging to teach teens about both the lack of privacy and the permanence of their messages, posts, DMs, tweets, and snaps. But, we have a way that will help you teach them....
As we remind you often, your teens are on their phones and social media on average 9 hours a day. That time is spent posting on Snap and Insta, tweeting, and sending messages on WhatsApp or Discord. Eventually, those all become thousands of communications over millions of minutes.

With all those communications over all that time, conversations via social media become very normal and habitual for teens. This normalcy can eventually lead the teen to a false expectation of privacy and a disregard for the permanence of digital messages, concerns we typically do not have when we engage in direct verbal conversations.

So, even if most teens who enter the world of social media start off with strong habits and a firm understanding of what they should and should not be communicating via social media, time can naturally create bad tendencies or carelessness. Their social media communications may eventually come to contain angry sentiments, hateful comments or inappropriate attempts at humor, private confessions and admissions, and messages of a sexual nature. Eventually down the line, most of us, not just teens, will be reminded that the privacy we thought we had on these platforms is illusory, and the inappropriate joke we messaged out so long ago will come back to haunt us.

Young adults just joining the world of social media and texting need an ongoing reminder that (1) anything they do on their phones is NOT private and (2) is likely permanent. Many parents pass on this message to their children when handing over the phones initially but time weakens the lesson. (This, by the way, is true for adults as well....)
What You Can Do
First, consider having that initial conversation when you hand over the phone to your child that what they post on social media and message over their phones is not private and likely permanent. Then consider having that same conversation at least yearly as a reminder. And, then on an ongoing basis, be on the lookout for any real-life cases you can share with your teens to serve as actual examples of the dangers associated with careless texting and posting.

Second, we recommend physically taking the phone from your child to conduct an inspection every month or every other month. To be clear, taking the phone for a physical inspection is NOT an invasion of privacy. In fact, the whole point of this exercise is to reinforce that you are not invading your teen's privacy. You are teaching that anything your teen does on the phone and social media is NOT private. The act of physically taking the phone is a frequent, visceral, but safe, reminder of this lesson and is meant to create a lifelong habit of thinking through how we communicate through our phones before we hit send or post.

Physical phone inspections work best with young teens just learning how to use smartphones and social media.

Effective strategies for limiting teens' screen times is one of the top requests we receive from parents, because, as everyone knows, teens are using their smartphones, mostly for social media, a lot. A U.S. survey from 2018 showed that 70% of teens check social media several times a day, up from just 34% in 2012. Sixteen percent of teens check their social feeds nearly constantly, and another 27% do so on an hourly basis. So, this month we are providing another tip to help both you and your teens decrease the phone time.

We stress here at the Organization for Social Media Safety that neither smartphones, generally, or social media, specifically, are inherently detrimental to adults or teens. Plenty of educational and social benefits can derive from phone and social media use. But, when teens, and adults, are starting to rack up multiple hours per day on their phones, the danger becomes the loss of other important activities that are being crowded out.

We must continue to be aware of two important considerations. First, social media is designed to be addictive. So, we need to watch for habitual use. Are you or your teen reaching for the phone when you wake up in the morning or right before you go to sleep? Are you or your teen using the phone as a crutch in social situations, including during mealtimes? Are you or your teen mainly using social media when taking breaks from work assignments? These are all signs of habitual use.

Also, we need to be mindful of the strong correlation between excessive phone use and mental health issues. Teens who used their phones for more than 5 hours a day were 70% more likely to have suicidal thoughts or actions than those who reported one hour of daily use. Teens using social media every day were 14% more likely to be depressed than those who used social media less frequently.

So What to Do - Share your Use Publicly!

To reduce your family's phone use, we are proposing the Phone Time Challenge, which relies on some psychological hacks, like gamification and public accountability.

Both Android and iPhones have software, named Digital Wellbeing and Screentime respectively, that provide detailed information on your daily and weekly phone and app consumption. Now, it is time to really use them!

(You can find more information here about your phone's time trackers.)

Try this:

Put a calendar up somewhere central and visible in your house and every day at the same time, perhaps nightly at dinner or some other convenient time everyone is together, write each person's daily usage times on the calendar. (Make it a fun, daily family ritual.) You can do just overall time or also include social media usage. Then, after a one-week diagnostic period (you will likely be surprised at how much you are really using your phone!), everyone should write down their weekly goals at the top of the calendar. (Don't have a calendar? You can download one here.)

This challenge also works if you would like to try it on your own. Just share your goal and times on social media once a week with all your friends for a month.

Take the Phone Time Challenge for at least a month, just one month, and let us know how it goes! Email us pics of your calendar or share them with us on social media. #phonetimechallenge

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Resources - Organization for Social Media Safety

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Cyberbullying About 88% of social media-using teens have witnessed other people being mean or cruel on social networking sites. Approximately 34% of students report experiencing cyberbullying. Sexual Harassment Some 21% of women ages 18 to 29 report being sexually harassed online.

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9 elements of digital citizenship (2000 × 1200 px)

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Interactive Media Bias Chart

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How to recognize misinformation and stop it in its tracks.

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RumorGuard from the News Literacy Project

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Helping you determine the credibility of info found online

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Free lessons for grades K–12

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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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The News Literacy Project

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The News Literacy Project works with educators and journalists to give students the skills they need to discern fact from fiction and to know what to trust.

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Be Internet Awesome

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Interland is an adventure-packed online game that puts the key lessons of digital citizenship and safety into hands-on practice. Play your way to being Internet Awesome.

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Digital Citizenship Week October, 17th - 21st

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Digital Citizenship Week October, 17th - 21st

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Digital Citizenship

Every day, teachers lead students in the ever changing digital world. As this happens, it is important to help students take ownership of their online and offline lives. This also includes partnering with parents to empower parents and help them make smart choices with their students.

The goal is to identify resources that can help students learn 21st century skills such as digital citizenship, information literacy, and safe and legal Internet use (for example, those surrounding plagiarism and pirating music and movies).

Deliver Digital Citizenship Lessons

The Common Sense Education organization offers free, research-based K-12 Digital Citizenship Curriculum with lesson plans to teach students how to:

Manage their online information and keep it secure.

Protect their own online privacy while respecting others.

Explore, examine, and protect their online reputations.

Reflect on their responsibilities and rights as creators online.

Identify, find, evaluate, and use information effectively.

Deal with a cyberbullying situation appropriately.

Stay safe online through positive connections.

The comprehensive digital citizenship lessons are aligned to the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Standards for Students , and include resources to share with families, can be delivered offline or in a blended format, and provide the option for student assessments. Additionally, Common Sense Media has invested in designing professional development resources to support educators with the implementation of the materials.

Meet Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) Requirements

Common Sense Education offers CIPA Toolkits for Administrators and Teachers. What is CIPA? The Children's Internet Protection Act is a federal law enacted by Congress to address concerns about access to offensive content over the Internet on school and library computers. CIPA imposes certain types of requirements on any school or library that receives funding for Internet access or internal connections from the E-rate program. Since July 2012, schools subject to CIPA are required by the Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act to provide for educating minors about appropriate online behavior, including interacting with other individuals on social networking Web sites and in chat rooms, and cyberbullying awareness and response. The suggested lessons for California's Digital Citizenship Week also provide suitable selections to meet the CIPA requirement for the 2017-2018 school year.

California Department of Education Digital Citizenship Week

The CDE, in collaboration with Common Sense Education and the California State legislature, will celebrate Digital Citizenship Week October 17-21, 2022. This will continue ongoing efforts to teach students how to make safe, smart, and ethical decisions in the digital world.

This year's topics include:

1. Getting Everyone Online

2. Everyone Learning Online

3. Everyone Staying Safe Online

Quick Links

Partners

Questions: Educational Data Management Division | 916-324-1214

Last Reviewed: Tuesday, October 11, 2022

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Digital Citizenship Every day, teachers lead students in the ever changing digital world. As this happens, it is important to help students take ownership of their online and offline lives. This also includes partnering with parents to empower parents and help them make smart choices with their students.

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This #DigCitWeek, support students' mental health and digital well-being.

Growing up has always had its challenges. But for kids today, social media and tech can amplify the typical stresses of adolescence. Common Sense's free lessons and resources are a positive and accessible way to help.

Our new Digital Well-Being lessons for grades 6-12 were co-developed with the Center for Digital Thriving at Harvard Graduate School of Education. And our new Device Advice lessons for grades K-5 are a great way to help young students build healthy habits with media and tech.

Check back soon for more information and updates about special events during this year's campaign!

See our 2023 Digital Citizenship Week calendars below:

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Digital Citizenship Week | Common Sense Education

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Amplify your students' voices and give them ownership of their digital lives