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Navigating Internet Safety & Global Citizenship by Caitlyn Ruen

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Navigating Internet Safety & Global Citizenship by Caitlyn Ruen

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Working with parents, children, & teachers to make internet use safe, healthy & empathic

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One of the most important steps in talking to children and parents about internet use, is to make sure we all have a shared understanding of how it works.

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The Internet - How it works! | Internetstiftelsen

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A few questions to gauge parent thoughts and feelings regarding internet use at home and school.

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One of the ways to help limit the scope of what your child or student sees on the internet is by using a child-safe search engine.   For classroom projects this can be a stream-lined way to control what is searchable.  The ones listed below are "ad-free" search engines as well to both help decrease the amount of influencial imagery as well as the amount of data collection.

https://www.kidtopia.info/ http://www.kidrex.org/
https://www.kiddle.co/
https://duckduckgo.com/

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Use these cards to prompt discussions about different scenarios that might occur online from meeting up with online friends to entering in your real name as a username.

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Keep your personal information private online!

Y is for Your full name
A is for Address
P is for Phone number
P is for Password
Y is for Your plans

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Children's Books about Technology & The Internet

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Children's Books about Technology & The Internet

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Reading a book is often a great way to introduce a topic or start a discussion. These stories range from metaphors for staying safe from online predators to talking about the importance of "unplugging" from technology.

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Digital Citizenship is a highly important topic for students.

They live in the 21st Century. Many students have access to 1:1 devices at school and even more devices at home.

Curricula worldwide mandate the need to teach students about digital citizenship, yet many teachers find it quite daunting to teach their students these vital skills to ensure their safety in online spaces.

Students need to be aware of the risks and dangers that exist online from an early age.

My love for teaching through picture story books has allowed me to find a range of very supportive books to help teachers teach students about the key concepts of Digital Citizenship.

Here is a list of some of my favourites:

The Tweeting Galah by Kim Maslin

The Internet is Like a Puddle by Shona Innes & Irisz Agocs

When Charlie McButton Lost Power by Suzanne Collins

Educates students that there is much more to life than playing games online

Charlie loves playing computer games. But, when his house loses power, he is unable to play his game and is terribly upset. It takes Charlie a long time to find something to do that he enjoys that doesn't require power. He eventually plays hide and seek with his sister and finds that he really enjoys it. When the power comes back on, Charlie is extremely excited to play his computer game once again, but he is also excited to limit his play so he can continue to play unplugged games.
See When Charlie McButton Lost Power on Amazon
Once Upon a Time Online by David Bedford

Educates students to seek permission from an adult before interacting online

The fairytales we all love are altered when Jack finds a laptop and connects to the internet. Cinderella immediately does a lot of online shopping to get ready for the ball, the Big Bad Wolf begins gaming, while the Three Little Pigs purchase materials for their house. This is all great until Cinderella receives the bill, and the Three Little Pigs become bored as the Big Bad Wolf is too busy gaming to blow their house down. Rapunzel and Little Red Riding Hood appear and altogether each fairytale character realise that if they check with the Fairy Godmother before they use the computer everything will be just fine.
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Chicken Clicking by Jeanne Willis

But It's Just a Game by Julia Cook

Educates students to find a balance between online gaming and real life activities

Jasper spends hours playing video games trying to get to the next level before his friends. This in turn affects his relationship with his mum and sister, his grades at school, his soccer, and his sleep. All Jasper can think about is playing his game. When Jasper finally listens to his mother and limits his computer game play to one hour a day, he sees his grades improve, his soccer improve, his relationship with his sister improve, and still he is able to enjoy his one hour of computer gameplay a day.
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The Technology Tail by Julia Cook

Educates students to act positively online

The Technology Tail uses the analogy of a tail as a digital footprint. For each positive online interaction your tail grows stronger, but for every negative interaction, your tail receives a tear, scratch, or bruise. It reinforces the fact that everything you post on the internet is always going to be there, which means future employees will be able to view your online interactions and potentially decide to give you a job or not based on your tail.
See The Technology Tail on Amazon What are your favourite picture story books to teach your students about digital citizenship? Share them in a comment below!

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Teaching digital citizenship with picture story books

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Digital Citizenship is a highly important topic for students. They live in the 21st Century. Many students have access to 1:1 devices at school and even more devices at home. Curricula worldwide mandate the need to teach students about digital citizenship, yet many teachers find it quite daunting to teach their students these vital skills to ensure their safety in online spaces.

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Epals is a site that connections children (and teachers) with other children (and teachers) from around the world who are interested in developing pen pal relationship. This is a fun and safe way for children to connect to the global community and practice appropriate online relationships.

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Classroom blogs and student blogs are an excellent way to teach and encourage positive uses of digital tools while also using it to extend learning and assess standards. Time and time again research has found that students create higher quality work when creating for an authentic audience. Blogs are a perfect way to connect high-quality learning and digital literacy.

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There are dozens of reasons why students should blog.

There's increased engagement by sharing with an authentic audience. Blogging encourages reflection, collaboration, and communication. Publishing on the web is even required in Common Core and other state and national standards!

And best of all, using Edublogs, blogging with students is as simple as following these 5 basic steps...

Step 1: Create A Class Blog

Every teacher should have a class website to keep students and parents up-to-date.

The class blog is the hub that connects the student blogs, helps you manage all your student blogs and enables your students easily interact the other students' blogs.

You'll find step by step instructions on how to set up your class blog here!

Step 2: Set Up My Class

My Class is the ultimate tool for class and student blogging. It allows you to connect student blogs to your class blog where you can control the student blog privacy, comment moderation and post moderation on all student blogs with just one click.

My Class also allows you to transfer student blogs to management of a new teacher at the start of each school year; or remove from My Class, and transfer complete control of the blog to the student, when they leave school.
Here's how to set up My Class:
1. Go to My Class > Create a Class.

2. Select "This is a class blog" (1), "No - use if you want them to publish posts on their student blog" (2), choose if you want to moderate posts and comments on student blogs (3), your preferred privacy option (4) and which users you want to manage your student blogs (5).

3. Click Save.

Step 3: Create Student Blogs

Once you've set up My Class there are two options for creating student blogs:

1. You create the student blogs using My Class > Create Student blogs.

2. Students to create their own blogs using the Edublogs sign up page and then connect to your class blog using My Class > Join a Class.

Benefit of students creating their blogs using the Edublogs sign up page is it allows you to easily reset their password - provided the student didn't add an email address.

If the student doesn't add their email address their account is created using our no email option and looks something like this - [email protected]

In Users > All Users you'll see an edit link below any student user name created using our no email option.

Click on Edit underneath their username to quickly reset the student password.

Step 4: Add Class Blog List

The class blog list provides a handy link to all blogs attached to My Class. Students just need to click on the link to visit a class mate's blog.

You can add the class blog list to:

1. A sidebar using the Class blog widget.

2. A page using the Live Shortcode plugin.

Step 5: Comment On Student Posts

The Edublogs Reader automatically feeds all published posts from all student blogs and the class blog into the dashboard of every users attached to My Class where you and your students can easily read and comment on each others' posts.

Reading posts is as simple as:

1. Go to Dashboard > Reader.

2. Click on Read More if you want to read the full post.

This displays the full post and allows you to select from the following options:

View Original - when you click on 'View original' it loads the draft post on the student blog where you can see what the post will look like when published.

Edit - clicking on Edit opens the post inside the dashboard of the student blog where you can make edits to the post (only visible to the teacher).

Add New Comment - allows you to add a comment to the post from inside your dasbhboard.

The forward and back arrows allow you to scroll to the next or previous student post or comment.

The reader is also the fastest way to check all pending posts and comments on your student blogs. It allows you to preview posts and comments and publish them with one click! You'll find detailed step by step instructions for approving pending posts and comments here.

That's It!

Let us know in the comments below if you have any questions and feel free to share a link to your class and student blogs too!

For more handy tips check out our blogging with class and student series!

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Blogging With Students In 5 Simple Steps

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There are dozens of reasons why students should blog. There's increased engagement by sharing with an authentic audience. Blogging encourages reflection, collaboration, and communication. Publishing on the web is even required in Common Core and other state and national standards! And best of all, using Edublogs, blogging with students is as simple as following these 5 basic steps...

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Encouraging a Respectful Online Presence

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Encouraging a Respectful Online Presence

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Comments4Kids was started by a group of teachers as a way to share their classroom blogs and encourage children to comment on other blogs from other schools. It also has videos of students explaining how to write a quality comment. It is an excellent way to add authenticity to your classroom blog and to teach respectful online behavior to your students/children.

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Comments4Kids is a way for students and teachers to find blogs to comment on and to get their own posts commented on. It all started wh...