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Prior to doing this project, I had never heard of the term “netiquette” and I realized that there were gaps in my knowledge about what netiquette really means, and why it is so important to teach to students in the classroom. From what I’ve learned about netiquette, I’ve gathered that it covers multiple different topics about internet safety, and how to be respectful and mindful of yourself and others while online. Growing up, technology was not what it was today, and when I was in school we were taught about how we shouldn’t share our private information online, not message people we don’t know, and to stay safe online, but we were never taught the term “netiquette”. I feel that netiquette rules should be included into the classroom curriculum starting at a young age, and demonstrate to students how to properly navigate and use the internet safely and responsibly. Teaching students how to behave properly online is important for their social, emotional, cognitive, and physical well being. Netiquette is an essential skill set to have when teaching children, especially when they are growing up in a time where technology is all they know. From what I’ve learned about netiquette, in the future I plan on educating my students on proper netiquette and how to be a good digital citizen, both in and out of the classroom.

In doing this project, my biggest takeaway was recognizing how easy it is for children to get a hold of technology these days. Since I was a child, technology has changed drastically, and children in today’s times don’t even know of a time where advanced technology didn’t exist. At such a young age children are put in front of a screen, and many of them are not taught how to use that technology safely and responsibly. In today's times it is so easy for students to get a hold of a smartphone, tablet, or computer and access online platforms. As a future teacher, I can use that to my advantage in teaching a netiquette lesson to my students.  I could show students videos on some of the Do’s and Don’ts to netiquette, and what they can do to keep themselves and others safe online. By having that visual, and going over the rules with my students it will lock in that information that has been taught to them and how they can use it the next time they go online. Doing this project has taught me that netiquette is an essential part to life about internet behavior, and how I can teach what I’ve learned about netiquette to my future students!

Prior to doing my research on netiquette, I hadn’t considered how young students need to be taught about netiquette. In today’s world, children younger and younger are having access to technology, but not having a clear understanding of what technology means. Due to the world we are living in now with the pandemic, students have had access to many different platforms, both in the educational sense and in the social aspect. In my future classroom, technology is going to be a crucial part of education and I will teach my students how netiquette should be used in the directional sense in students learning on how to navigate the internet and teach them about safety issues that can come to the surface. There can be so many negatives to the internet, like cyberbullying, getting messages from strangers, etc. Therefore,  netiquette is a fantastic way of educating students to use it responsibly. In teaching students proper netiquette, students will benefit greatly from direct instruction about what having proper netiquette is all about, and how they can keep themselves and others safe online.

In doing research on netiquette it has strengthened my personal view on how crucial it is to make students aware of the topic of netiquette and how helpful/ impactful it can be to students. Teaching this topic to my future students can be a great way for students to gain an understanding of what netiquette, internet safety and digital citizenship is all about. When teaching students about netiquette, it can be done in many fun and engaging ways. Referring back to my lesson plan, when teaching students about internet safety there are so many fun and engaging videos that are informative about the steps to consider when using the internet that I can show to my future students, and then do an interactive lesson around. When teaching about netiquette, students are never too young or too old to be taught to recognize and understand internet safety, and due to this I believe that it is my responsibility to provide the tools my students need and guide them in staying smart, responsible, and safe online both in the educational aspect and the social aspect of using the internet.

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Pause & Think Online- Ms. Petruzzi 1st Grade Lesson

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Pause & Think Online- Ms. Petruzzi 1st Grade Lesson

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Learning Objectives:

Students will be able to recognize the importance of how to be safe, responsible, and respectful when they are online.

Students will recall the basic concepts of internet safety after engaging in various activities.

Pre-assessment:

As a class, we will have a group discussion if students have ever used the internet before, what kinds of things do they look for on the internet, or what could you use the internet for?

I will invite students to respond with their varying answers, and will acknowledge how many different things the internet can be used for. Such as learning new information, playing fun games, talking with friends and family, and looking at fun pictures and videos.

Afterwards, I will then explain to the students that when we use the internet there are very important rules that we need to follow to keep us safe.

I will introduce to the students the “Pause & Think Online” song on how we can be safe and responsible when using the internet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_duZ-1LApg

As the song is playing, I will model the dance moves and encourage the students to participate.

After the song is over, I will ask the students what important information they gathered after watching the video.

Activity:

I will say to the class how the Digital Citizens showed us how we are able to use our arms, legs, feet, gut, and head responsibly when online.

As a class, we will look at each character, what they do, and how we can use them safely when we are on the internet.

We will then read and go over each character and what they do:

Arms: We use our arms to balance our time when we are online.

Gut: If you have a bad feeling when you are online, stay safe and exit that website.

Feet: Use your feet carefully when you leave tracks online.

Legs: Use your leads to stand up to bullies online.

Heart: Listen to your heart, and be kind to others online.

Head: Use your head and ask questions about what you see online.

In a guided discussion, I will ask the students online safety questions. For example, “Should you believe everything you see on the internet?”, “What should you do when you get a message from someone you don’t know online?”, and  “Why is it important to be kind to others online?”

I will encourage all students to share their answers and reflect on what we have learned.

Lastly, I will distribute a Pause & Think Moment Student Handout, and read the directions out loud to the class stating that they need to pick one of the Digital Citizens and draw how they will use one of the characters next time they are online. Then I will invite the students to share the character they have chosen with the class, and collect the handouts to assess students' understanding. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iHvVe44YggBMBQO4aDF3otjrxwjJYP6ozur2LoZk9GA/edit

Closing:

Lastly, I will restate to the class what we’ve learned about being safe and responsible on the internet, and how students should pause and think to make sure that they are doing the right thing when they are online.

Modified from: https://www.commonsense.org/education/digital-citizenship/lesson/pause-think-online

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As educators, we want our students to be happy, kind , ethical, safe and secure when they are online. Students may not be at the proper developmental stage to navigate digital dilemmas and use technology safely and effectively. As their teachers, we need to guide students in the right direction when they are using the internet both in and out of the classroom.

http://www.kathleenamorris.com/2019/03/12/internet-safety

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Netiquette: The Art of Online Etiquette & Safety Guide

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Netiquette: The Art of Online Etiquette & Safety Guide

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There are people who will take advantage of being behind a screen and use improper netiquette to put others in danger. There are rules we can follow to keep ourselves safe from these people online.

Be careful of emails that are from people you don’t know

Be careful of emails that ask you to do something

Be careful of emails with grammar errors

NEVER open attachments from emails you do not recognize

Inspect the sender email address before opening any attachments. Does the sender’s text name (e.g., John Anderson) map to the expected email address (e.g., janderson@gmail.com)?

Assure that links match the text link before clicking

NEVER give out your username or password in emails

https://fullcoll.instructure.com/courses/12487/pages/netiquette-percent-3a-the-art-of-online-etiquette-percent-26-safety-guide?module_item_id=130171

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When we "flame" someone or something, it is posting to an online setting that attacks a person or a group of people. This response is typically a response to another post.

When we engage in a "flame war" we are exchanging these personal attacks between posts and people.

https://kb.iu.edu/d/afha

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What you do on the internet can be traced by others very easily. So, it is important to follow proper netiquette to also keep ourselves safe. Netiquette helps us to be ourselves, while also keeping our identity private enough that no one can trace us. Netiquette teaches us how to keep our personal information and online conversations safe and private.

https://www.avast.com/c-netiquette#:~:text=Netiquette%20helps%20you%20prevent%20identity,and%20find%20information%20more%20quickly

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When we write to others online, through emails, texts, or chatrooms, we are not able to show our emotions as clearly as we would when talking face to face. We cannot show body language, tone of voice, or facial expression. This can cause someone reading what you post to be confused, or read what you said in the wrong way.
Netiquette helps us to know how to write on the internet so no one is confused during a conversation. Netiquette allows us to communicate clearly and avoid misunderstandings.

Different websites, chatrooms, and discussion boards will have their own sets of rules for how to talk wiht others, but proper netiquette will be the same across them all. Because of this, know your netiquette so every chat you have online is a clear one!

https://www.cybersmile.org/advice-help/category/netiquette

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My Netiquette Lesson | Friendship | Educational Stories for Kids

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Before this project, I had never heard of "netiquette", or at least in this formal of a definition. As a kid, I remember having meetings and guests speakers talk to use about internet safety and cyber bulling, but they did not go into as much detail and discuss the proper way to talk online such as grammar and not using all caps. I feel I learned a great deal from my research, and that netiquette is an essential tool that all should have to behave properly online. I plan on informing my students, young and old, on proper netiquette.

My biggest takeaway from learning about netiquette is how it is so easy for children today to have access to the internet, and many of them do not have the training and knowledge of how to act on the internet as I did when I was in school. When I was younger, the internet was still very new and people were still learning how to use it. So, schools provided a great deal of seminars and lessons for students to learn about the dangers of the internet and how to be safe and smart. Currently, it is much easier for students to access online platforms without their parents knowing and put themselves in danger. Netiquette is a great way to teach kids to be safe without scaring them. I do not remembering hearing the term “netiquette” as a child, but I think it is a much better approach than the online training I had as a kid. Netiquette is simply a comparison of how to behave online as we do in the real world, I think this not only makes it much more relatable but it makes online behavior easier. If people behave one way in public, why wouldn’t we also on the internet? I also have learned how to change my own behavior in social media settings. Netiquette has informed me how to eliminate confusion when having discussions online and the accidental ways that I have made mistakes that result in miscommunication and arguments. Netiquette is a great extension of what I had learned about internet behavior online, and I am excited to share this information with future students.

Prior to doing my research, I had not considered how effective teaching netiquette to early elementary would be. I remember learning about internet safety in late elementary, but never at the kindergarten level. The earlier I teach my students, the better! Especially in the ever growing world of technology.

My research has strengthened my view of how important it is to not hide things from students of any age and to be real in how we talk to them and teach them. Of course, not to scare students, but to inform them of the dangers of the world that they live in. I want to teach my students at all ages how important it is to be safe and respectful online. I do not want to be a teacher who brushes off important lessons like netiquette because I feel my students are "too young". No one is too young to learn about internet safety and etiquette, and in the world we live in children are having access to the internet at younger and younger ages. Because of this, I feel it is essential to my teaching to inform my students how to behave in their online settings. It is also important for any online learning situations for students to know how to behave and respect their peers. As their teacher, I need my students to know how to act with their classmates in our online learning spaces.

From this entire project, I have learned the importance of teaching my students about how to behave online. The internet is become more and more accessible to younger audiences, and more than ever everyone needs to be informed. I do not want to sugar coat the dangers and proper behavior of the internet, and I do not want to "save" it for older students. I proper internet behavior can be taught in a fun way that produces respectful online citizens at any age.

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Some Examples of Netiquette From Students

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Some Examples of Netiquette From Students

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Avoiding Confusion in Online Writing-Ms. Winn 5th Grade

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Avoiding Confusion in Online Writing-Ms. Winn 5th Grade

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Learning Objectives:

Reflect on how easily words can be taken out of context on the internet

Identity the importance of proper grammar in online settings

Explain on how our actions on the internet affect others besides ourselves

Steps/Tasks:

1. Explain rules for a respectful discussion

2. Give each student a very basic sentence to read and an emotion to read it in

3. Each student will hide their face behind a book and read their sentence to their partner. Partners will make a brief observation about the emotion they think their partner is feeling

4. Teacher brings class back together to discuss how they interpreted what their partner says, versus how their partner meant to say it

5. Ask students, “why was it so difficult to understand what our partners were trying to say?”. (Ex. Because we could not hear them very well, because we could not see their face)

6. Have students read different text messages, emails, etc. with incorrect grammar, inappropriate use of caps, and rude language in different ways (ex. Tone of voice, volume of voice, emotional, monotone)

7. Have debate about what the “right” way to read the message is/how is the message “supposed” to be read?. (Students need to have evidence from their messages to support why they feel they would read the message the way they feel is “right”.

8. Have students dissect messages and find reasons that make the message sound as it is. (This would show how we all can interpret the exact same messages differently)

9. Explain to students that there is no right or wrong way to read a message. The danger in posting anything online is that no one knows how you mean to say, so they may read it in a different way than intended. This can cause problems.

10. Have students brainstorm ways to make messages easier to read and understand (emojis, proper grammar, extra detail) and create a class list of “proper online rules for clear conversations”

11. Allow students to rewrite the improper messages to be clear in their meaning using their rules

12. Allow students to create their own messages and write, direct, and perform skits to show the two sides of sending a message that is not clear and reading a message that is not clear (Students will create skits to show how messages can be taken out of context and how they would handle the situation in groups of 2-4)

Assessment:

Students will present their skits to the class

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1. USE ALL CAPS
2. Spam Others: You only need to send messages once, and be sure they are clear
3. Send Without Proofreading
4. Fight With Others
5. Use Hurtful or Inappropriate Language
6. Pretend to Be Someone Else: Don't lie about your identity, but do not give away too much information
7. Disrespect Other's Privacy and Identity: Remember the Golden Rule! We do not want to treat others on the internet how we would not want to be treated
8. Arguing: The internet is a space for learning and connecting with others, not arguing!

https://www.cybersmile.org/advice-help/category/examples-of-good-netiquette
https://www.cybersmile.org/what-we-do/advice-help/netiquette/examples-of-bad-netiquette#:~:text=Not%20respecting%20people's%20privacy%20%E2%80%93%20It,could%20also%20be%20considered%20doxing.

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Teaching students netiquette is extremely important to learn for students of all ages, as technology continues to grow as a part of social interaction.  Netiquette is the way that we act towards one another online. For example, this can be in a chat room, through email, or in the online school setting.

Learning how to behave online is just as important as learning how to behave in the classroom. When students and teachers follow the proper netiquette, we learn how to create an engaging, respectful, and meaningful environment for all to learn.
https://www.pearson.com/ped-blogs/blogs/2020/03/helping-students-develop-proper-internet-etiquette.html

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1. Follow the Golden Rule: Treat others how you would like to be treated on the internet
2. Use Proper Grammar: When writing on the internet, be sure to use correct grammar rules that are used in the classroom
4. Proofread Before You Send Anything
3. Be Yourself: Many bullies use fake names, so be yourself! People will be discouraged to talk with you if you are pretending to be someone else.
4. Respect Other's Privacy
5. Be Responsible With Your Words and Actions: Once it is posted, it is on the internet forever!
6. Help Others: If you see someone not following proper netiquette, do not be afraid to talk to them and teach them the rules of the web
7. Use Expression: It can be hard to know how someone feels through their words online, so including an emoji or exclamation point to show how you feel
8. Be careful when using acronyms: If you use an acronym it is best to spell out its meaning first, then put the acronym in parentheses afterward, for example: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs). After that you can use the acronym freely throughout your message

https://www.bpl.org/kids-learn/netiquette-for-kids/
https://www.cybersmile.org/advice-help/category/examples-of-good-netiquette
https://hilo.hawaii.edu/academics/dl/netetiquette.php

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"Netiquette represents the importance of proper manners of behavior online. Netiquette is a set of professional and social etiquettes practiced and advocated in electronic communication over any computer network."

For instance, being courteous and precise, and avoiding cyber-bulling.
https://www.techopedia.com/definition/25061/netiquette