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How to begin teaching about digital citizenship
Teach about the importance of being careful online

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Education Week - Education Futures: Emerging Trends in K-12

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Just as students have to learn how to be good citizens within their community, they need to know how to behave and be a positive part of the digital community. Digital citizenship is an important responsibility that everyone needs to understand as it encapsulates as many aspects of behavior and actions as physical interaction does. Depending on the age of the student, there are different areas that you can focus on. As the student's age, you have to ensure that their understanding and ability to be a good digital citizen continues.

Starting with stranger danger and cyberbullying, your students will need to continue to learn about this aspect of technology throughout their educational career. In Part II of this piece, we will discuss three ways that you can teach digital citizenship to your students. Without further ado, here we go.
Seamless Incorporation into the Daily Lessons
The best way to ensure that children understand about digital citizenship is to build it into the daily lessons. By practicing it every day, it becomes second nature, regardless of what age the students are. Nor does it take much extra time or effort since you are already likely working with technology every day.

When your students make presentations, you can highlight copyright and intellectual rights. For younger students, you can highlight issues like plagiarism and citing their research. As the kid's age, you can begin to ask them how they would like to have their work discussed and used by others. Have them think about how they would feel if someone else were to profit from their hard work, especially if it was done without their consent.

To teach about the importance of being careful online, you can have your student create online accounts for people you are studying in history or in literature. The pages they create will teach them to think about the people and characters from a new perspective, as well as showing them how to be respectful of others when chatting on those pages.
Find the Right Resources
This suggestion is probably the most challenging, but not for a lack of resources. With the rapid pace that technology changes, new tools and resources are constantly being posted. One of the most beneficial to educators is the forums and discussion boards where teachers, administrators, professors, and others in the industry chat about their experiences and share their ideas.

Keeping in mind that you want to be able to incorporate daily lessons on citizenship, the resources should help simplify the incorporation. Apps provide an excellent way of teaching students at any age range, although it can be difficult to find apps that will work in a school setting. A wealth of devices are also available, although they can be cost prohibitive. Things like Google Cardboard works to keep the cost to a minimum.

Ultimately, collaboration is the best way to find the best resources for your lessons. The more people in education that you chat with, the more ideas you will find to enhance your students' understanding of digital citizenship.
Focus on Topics Based on Your Students' Age Group
As you begin to find new and exciting ways of teaching digital citizenship, you may end up getting caught up in the possibilities and forget to consider the children's age group. Each year of school will require a different approach and level of complexity. You have to keep the goals and expectations appropriate for the age you are educating.

In Kindergarten, the focus will be on issues like stranger danger and how to be safe when using the Internet. First and second graders will need to be reminded of safe practices, but you will also need to introduce topics like cyberbullying so they can learn how to treat others online, and how to react when someone is a bully. You will need forums and boards that you can monitor. As kids reach the age to be able to use Facebook (13 according to the Facebook Terms and Conditions), then you need to introduce concerns about social media and how to behave.

The older the students are, the more challenging it can be because technology frequently targets the older children. Your lessons will need to address the possible problems and resolutions to those problems when new technology and apps appear.

Well, that's it for Part I. In Part II we will discuss two additional ways that you can teach digital citizenship to your students.

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How to Teach Digital Citizenship to Your Students: Part I

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Digital citizenship is an important responsibility that everyone needs to understand as it encapsulates as many aspects of behavior and actions as physical interaction does. Depending on the age of the student, there are different areas that you can focus on.

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Statistics on Digital Citizenship & Tips!

Kids don’t know that something has the potential to be dangerous

Teaching them that Snapchat does not disappear

Blocking access to unsafe sites

Helping students to say no to well-known apps that are unsafe

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What is the Digital Safety Survey?

Over the past 4 years, we have created 37 digital safety app guides helping to keep students safe.

We created a Digital Safety Survey so our readers could help us understand their biggest frustrations and needs so we can better serve parents and educators.

Our survey questions

What are the ages of your kids/students?

What is your biggest question/concern with regards to digital safety?

What is the scariest part about your students/kids being online?

What apps are your kids using?

Who completed our Digital Safety Survey?

What ages are the students that they work with?

47.1% - Elementary

47.1% - Middle School

13.7% - Jr High School

37.3% - High School

14.7% - Multiple

5.9% - Other

What apps are their students using the most?

What is their biggest concern?

What is the scariest part of their students/kids being online?

Internet safety statistics

92% of teens post their real name on their online profiles

58% of teens don't think posting personal info online is unsafe

69% of teens regularly receive personal messages online from strangers and most of them don't tell a trusted adult

Source: Online Safety Site

Digital safety in the news

Online risks are everyday events for teens - but they rarely tell their parents. - Forbes

Parents are desperately looking for ways to protect teens from online predators, bullies, and their own poor decision making. - NPR

Why should parents care?

Teens spend a lot of time online and on a mobile device, daily. Parents tend to underestimate how often teens encounter online risks

A lot of teens refrain from telling an adult about dangerous online activities because they fear the adult will react negatively

What can parents do?

Routinely audit your student's digital footprint with Footprint Friday. Visit FootprintFriday.com to learn more.

Have a dialog with your teen about having a positive online reputation for college admissions and future career opportunities

Decide which apps are okay for your student to use by referring to our Parent App Guide

Become a social media safety expert at our next free webinar and learn 3 hidden app features that encourage bad behavior

We train 30,000 students each year how to shine online using social media and we show them how their accounts can be used to create a portfolio of positive accomplishments that impress colleges and employers.

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2017 Internet Safety Statistics & Digital Citizenship Tips

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Over 100 people answered our Digital Safety Survey in February. We found some interesting info that may help you better understand Internet safety statistics and the needs and frustrations of parents and educators. Learn which apps are the most popular with teens this year, what you can do to monitor your teen's digital footprint, and ways to help them shine online.

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Stay informed on how the existing law - prohibits a school district permitting access to pupil records to any person without parental consent.

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California Law

SB 1177 - September 2014 - Student Online Personal Information Protection Act (SOPIPA) - The most comprehensive industry-targeted student-data-privacy legislation in the country. The law, spearheaded by Common Sense CEO Jim Steyer, is the most aggressive legislative effort to date aimed at protecting the privacy and security of student data. The law is unique in that puts the responsibility for protecting student data directly on industry by expressly prohibiting education technology service providers from selling student data, using that information to advertise to students or their families, or "amassing a profile" on students to be used for noneducational purposes. Law took effect in January 2016. (Source: Commonsensemedia.org)

AB 1584 - September 2014 -Existing law prohibits a school district from permitting access to pupil records to any person without parental consent or without a judicial order, except to specified persons under certain circumstances, including to a contractor or consultant with a legitimate educational interest who has a formal written agreement or contract with the school district regarding the provision of outsourced institutional services or functions by the contractor or consultant.

AB 1442 - September 2014 - Existing law requires school districts to establish, maintain, and destroy pupil records according to regulations adopted by the State Board of Education.

This bill would, notwithstanding that provision, require a school district, county office of education, or charter school that considers a program to gather or maintain in its records any information obtained from social media, as defined, of any pupil enrolled in the school district, county office of education, or charter school to first notify pupils and their parents or guardians about the proposed program, and to provide an opportunity for public comment at a regularly scheduled public meeting before the adoption of the program.

AB 256 - Chapter 700 - October 10, 2013 - Clarifies the role of school in intervening in bullying cases that originate away from school. Bill defines "electronic act" the creation and transmission originated on or off the school site.

AB 1156 - July 2012 - Outlines a number of provisions regarding bullying including identification of negative outcomes associated with bullying; duties of school personnel regarding bullying; and accommodations of victims of bullying.

AB 9 (Seth's Law) - January 2012 - Even with AB 746 in place (see below), California legislators recognized the need to have anti-bullying policy in place to protect LBGTQ youth from harassment, intimidation, and bullying. To find resources for supporting LBGTQ youth, visit the Digital ID project.

AB 746 - July 2011 - Language of the law includes student behaviors on social networking web sites: "Under existing law, bullying, including bullying committed by means of an electronic act, as defined, is a ground on which suspension or expulsion may be based."

AB 86 - January 2009 - One of the first laws in the country to deal directly with cyberbullying. Gives school administrators the authority to discipline students for bullying others offline or online.

Federal Law

CIPA - Children's Internet Protection Act (2001)
Enacted by Congress in 2000 to address concerns about children's access to obscene or harmful content over the Internet. As of July 2012, CIPA requirements were revised to require that any school district applying for E-Rate funding* must show how they are actively teaching all students Internet safety and digital citizenship. The topics that must be covered are: Appropriate online behavior (building a positive digital footprint; respecting intellectual property), safety and privacy, and cyberbullying awareness and response
*EGUSD uses E-Rate funding for:

Telecommunications - Voice communications, voice mail, or messaging.

Internet Access - Internet access and the power of video conferencing (making global connections possible from all school sites).

Infrastructure - Extending connectivity down to every classroom.

As with any federal program that comes with funding, our district-wide implementation of CIPA requirements is subject to federal audits.

COPPA - Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (1998)
Federal law created to protect the privacy of children under 13. The Act was passed by the U.S. Congress in 1998 and took effect in 2000. COPPA is managed by the Federal Trade Commission. COPPA imposes certain requirements on operators of websites or online services directed to children under 13 years of age, and on operators of other websites or online services that have actual knowledge that they are collecting personal information online from a child under 13 years of age.

PPRA - Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (1978)
Federal law that affords certain rights to parents of minor students with regard to surveys that ask questions of a personal nature. The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 contains a major amendment to PPRA that gives parents more rights with regard to the surveying of minor students.

FERPA - Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (1974)
Federal law that protects the privacy of student education records. The law applies to all schools that receive funds under an applicable program of the U.S. Department of Education.

Revision - School official exception (2008)
Permit educational institutions to disclose educational information and personally identifiable information without prior consent to contractors, volunteers or other non-employees peforming services for the educational institution.

Revision - Audit or evaluation exception (2011)
Educational institutions are now permitted to adopt a limited directory information policy that allows the schools to disclose designated information to designated parties. Educational institutes however, must provide notice to parents or eligible students.

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California Law SB 1177 - September 2014 - Student Online Personal Information Protection Act (SOPIPA) - The most comprehensive industry-targeted student-data-privacy legislation in the country. The law, spearheaded by Common Sense CEO Jim Steyer, is the most aggressive legislative effort to date aimed at protecting the privacy and security of student data.

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Working together to protect our kids!
Educate and empower parents, educators and other caring adults.
Collaboration is the best way to find the best resources for your lessons.

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Internet Safety 101: Internet Safety 101

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Predators have easy and anonymous access to children online where they can conceal their identity and roam without limit. Often we have an image of sexual predators lurking around school playgrounds or hiding behind bushes scoping out their potential victims, but the reality is that today's predators search for victims while hiding behind a computer screen, taking advantage of the anonymity the Internet offers.

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Be Vigilant the Internet is Not so friendly after all

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Be Vigilant the Internet is Not so friendly after all

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Think before you post!