https://padlet.com/aheffner2/lyzleo613ocm Post some ideas to this Padlet about how to integrate digital citizenship into classroom instruction/discussion. Double-click anywhere on the page to start a new stickie. Don't forget to include your name on your stickie! en-us 2019-09-22 00:20:46 UTC 2025-09-30 17:22:26 UTC hello@padlet.com tanya_leon https://padlet.com/aheffner2/lyzleo613ocm/wish/391004125 The thing that really stood out to me in the resources today was to find/track positivity on social media. In the "Digital Citizenship in Two Minutes or Less" article, she reflects about how she asks students, "What’s the most positive thing you’ve seen/posted on social media lately?"

I often think about how social media is used to share and I teach students the safety of using it. I also preach on the powers of collaboration and networking. But I've never framed it in the respect of looking for positivity and how quickly that spreads.

I am working on making student assessments more authentic and tied to improving their communities and world. Tracking positive social movements on social media is a great way to embed digital citizenship into what we're doing every day.

The blogger goes on to ask as an exit ticket to explain one thing students LEARNED on social media that week. As an ELA teacher, I love the idea of integrating social media as a research tool and adding in the layer of fact checking that as a place to find more information apart from the standard research places they are typically taught.  ]]> 2019-09-29 13:01:24 UTC https://padlet.com/aheffner2/lyzleo613ocm/wish/391004125 https://padlet.com/aheffner2/lyzleo613ocm/wish/391062282 I liked the ISTE article "Don't teach digital citizenship- embed it!"  My school uses Canvas to host teacher webpages and this is a perfect opportunity to do a soft release of practicing positive social media responses.  I use the Discussion forum feature often to present student work or have a technology supported "silent discussion."

Last year my kids created memes during at the end of The Great Gatsby unit and we didn't have time to present them in class.  Instead I had students post them to a forum and then comment on each others work.  I did not model for them appropriate comments, I just told them that they needed to be school appropriate.  This year I am planning on making sure that I model for them what that positive contribution looks like. 

I also liked the idea of the exit ticket being an example of positive social media that they saw on their own.  When we get into our Modern Narrative unit (we use Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook to tell a story) I will have them submit examples at the start of the unit as mentor texts.  I like following sites like Upworthy and 
Faith in Humanity Restored I will use that to kick us off!]]> 2019-09-29 19:08:08 UTC https://padlet.com/aheffner2/lyzleo613ocm/wish/391062282 https://padlet.com/aheffner2/lyzleo613ocm/wish/391065309 I really like the articles, especially "Don't teach digital citizenship- embed it!"  My personal takeaway is that teaching one to be a good digital citizen doesn't have to be so hard...by that I mean that teaching it separately seems harder than embedding it naturally in curriculum and daily interactions in class. So why not go the easy way out and not struggle so much to teach digital citizenship. It's not only easier to to it bit by bit, it is also better for learners. Win/win.

I'm an instructional designer at a higher ed institution, so I don't have a classroom, so I looked up a Digcit site (https://digcitutah.com/digital-citizenship-kids/). The one I hit on was from Utah. I found some amazing ways students are expressing themselves as good digital citizens.  I got chills reading some of the examples.

The 16 year old who created an app so nobody every has to sit alone at lunch was one I've heard of before, but when I read it again today, I was reminded how powerful that is.  I'm sure that has a trickle effect as those that are served by that app surely pay that forward.  

There's an example of a girl who speaks English who used an app to write a letter to a fellow student who speaks Spanish and an example of students who were only tweeting compliments.  

This is all very powerful stuff that really leaves me quite inspired.]]> 2019-09-29 19:26:01 UTC https://padlet.com/aheffner2/lyzleo613ocm/wish/391065309 https://padlet.com/aheffner2/lyzleo613ocm/wish/392383844 Like  Heather Mars in "Don't teach digital citizenship-embed it!," I knew I was teaching digital citizenship in my classes just by teaching with technology and having students create with it, but it really resonated with me that we "need to be intentional" with teaching digital citizenship skills.  I know I could have done much more and made a more lasting impact if I had planned and scheduled little lessons along the way.  I taught social studies (now I am a social studies curriculum leader), so I too did not specifically teach technology directly, but gave mini-lessons along the way to make their learning more meaningful.

I especially liked that she turned off commenting on posts until she was able to teach them effective commenting.  I struggled with this with my high school students on their discussion boards.  We would go over the purpose of the discussion board being a "discussion" so that they should comment in a way that would feel like a face-to-face discussion and I provided a rubric for discussion boards within each post.  

I often interacted with my students on social media.  I saw a lot of things that were inappropriate along the way, but found that they were often great discussion starters in my high school classroom.  Much of the time they were unaware that teachers actually checked social media.  The most fun was when i set up SnapChat groups for my world history classes and they would send group messages about their lives.  It really made learning personal for my students and I learned a ton about them.  

]]> 2019-10-02 12:33:00 UTC https://padlet.com/aheffner2/lyzleo613ocm/wish/392383844 https://padlet.com/aheffner2/lyzleo613ocm/wish/394101436 Personally, I struggle with making Discussion Boards really interactive. In my experience, they become flat, pseudo-online journals. For this reason, I was really liked the idea from Nancy Watson's article Digital Citizenship Lessons in Two Minutes or Less. "Your exit ticket on Friday will be to explain one thing you learned on social media this week, so be on the lookout – and don’t forget to fact-check!"  I plan to use the spirit of this idea for a canvas discussion board. I will open discussion boards with a number of categories that include French language movies and TV shows, French musique, Franco-phone Musique, Where to Find French products locally. Students will be required to contribute to at least one of these boards every week. The contributions must be substantive such as adding new content or commenting on and analyzing the current content. We would generate the parameter of contribution as class so that students not only know what is expected, but at the same time, we can discuss digital citizenship and what a good post looks like. I hope that these discussion boards will generate greater connections to the language and culture. However, I feel that it will encourage greater interaction on discussion boards. ]]> 2019-10-06 13:16:49 UTC https://padlet.com/aheffner2/lyzleo613ocm/wish/394101436 https://padlet.com/aheffner2/lyzleo613ocm/wish/394171885 In "Don't teach digital citizenship- embed it!" by Heather Marrs, I liked the idea of the public nature of student work. When I have students record a discussion on a text as opposed to just having a discussion in small groups, I feel like the discussions are always better because they are more thoughtful due to knowing anyone in our class (and the other class sections) can listen to it. I also agree that students need to be TAUGHT to give effective feedback- they definitely don't intuitively know how to do this.]]> 2019-10-06 20:07:31 UTC https://padlet.com/aheffner2/lyzleo613ocm/wish/394171885 https://padlet.com/aheffner2/lyzleo613ocm/wish/394192617 In a blended learning (not 1:1) classroom, I think I would start with the traditional beginning of the year lesson probably sourced from something like Nearpod.  I like this one because it is free and created with an ISTE partnership. (https://nearpod.com/s/professional-development/pd/ll-the-new-digital-citizenship-L42511565)  Then I would try and follow the philosophy from the Nancy Watson article - “Every Teacher. Every Classroom. Every Day.” I think I could accomplish this without taking much classroom time by making sure that everyday I mention the source of an image I might use during a warm-up or making sure that I give credit for the information in presentation, or by adding positive feedback comments to student work.  “Let’s all practice SHOWING students what great digital citizens do, and let’s start by giving them bite-size examples, every day.  Nancy Watson”  Lastly, I would create lessons that utilize online resources to help students practice with digital citizenship.  I am going to investigate the Seesaw app mentioned in the Heather Marrs article.  I like the blog feature because the students can work in a global context that will help them with authentic learning.]]> 2019-10-06 22:21:43 UTC https://padlet.com/aheffner2/lyzleo613ocm/wish/394192617 https://padlet.com/aheffner2/lyzleo613ocm/wish/394203031 The "Don't Teach Digital Citizenship, Embed It!" article is resonating with me at them moment. This is a decision that I came to at the start of the school year, and am now being supported by another school-wide initiative that is focused on character and community development. We are not labeling the Dig Cit lessons as "Digital Citizenship," but will be embedding the content into the scope and sequence of community/character building. The hope isn't to "hide" this, but to help staff and students alike see that the content isn't just stand-alone lessons that are being forced upon us, but important skills, practices, and concepts that relate to who we are (both as individuals and as a community). 

My idea would be to help work with teachers who are already doing great work that aligns with DigCit and helping them to bring the skills/concepts to the forefront (when applicable) by simply acknowledge where there are opportunities to be more intentional about the Dig Cit concepts already present in their work. ]]> 2019-10-06 23:37:21 UTC https://padlet.com/aheffner2/lyzleo613ocm/wish/394203031 matthew_smoot https://padlet.com/aheffner2/lyzleo613ocm/wish/394217470 I though the "Don't teach digital citizenship, embed it article spoke volumes and loved how it talked about more with integration as opposed to teaching it separately. In one of the paragraphs it talked about students giving each other feedback. I feel like this is so important. ESPECIALLY ONLINE. Students need to learn how to give each other proper digital feedback. There is no sarcasm online. When I used seesaw at the beginning of the year, I always turned student comments off, until we properly learned how to give good digital feedback. ]]> 2019-10-07 01:06:43 UTC https://padlet.com/aheffner2/lyzleo613ocm/wish/394217470 https://padlet.com/aheffner2/lyzleo613ocm/wish/394243312 In the article Digital Citizenship Lessons in Two Minutes or Less by Nancy Watson, I appreciated how she reiterated that digital citizenship “should just be woven in to the fabric of what you’re doing anyway.”  Both Heather Marrs and Nancy Watson talk about how digital citizenship should not be just a lesson, program, or unit.  It should not be solely the responsibility of a tech or media specialist; however, it should be the responsibility of all teachers in every classroom embedded in simple, two-minute talks on a regular basis. With this mindset, digital citizenship instruction is intentionally looking for opportunities to share/model/learn what digital citizenship looks like. It is mindful discussions rather than sporadic lectures or drawn-out lessons.

]]> 2019-10-07 03:27:50 UTC https://padlet.com/aheffner2/lyzleo613ocm/wish/394243312 https://padlet.com/aheffner2/lyzleo613ocm/wish/394512892 The importance of modelling really struck me as I moved through this section of the course. I liked the "Digital Citizenship Lessons in Two Minutes or Less" ideas where the teacher takes the initiative to share how he/she is acting as an agent/interactor/managing digital self and posing questions/opportunities for the students to do the same. With older students, I would have them review the short ISTE video and invite discussion on each of the three areas of the "new" digital citizenship. We are planning a day for our Blended Learning teachers where we will focus on Dig Cit in the classroom and we will invite them to reflect and set goals for establshing digital citizenship practices in their classrooms and embed it throughout the year (as oppposed to just teaching it for onboarding or for a special event).]]> 2019-10-07 15:17:51 UTC https://padlet.com/aheffner2/lyzleo613ocm/wish/394512892 https://padlet.com/aheffner2/lyzleo613ocm/wish/401581655 Don't teach, embed!  This article ties in to my philosophy as a whole when it comes to technology integration. If the learning isn't authentic, it's much more difficult for students to learn. By using various tools that "mimic" the "real world," in the classroom like Seesaw, and by using actual tools that are using in the "real world" like having a class blog or social media presence with students as social media managers, it will organically open up the conversations around being respectful online and creating positive digital footprints. In our district, we are big fans of Seesaw and the use of the platform has exploded because it's so powerful and allows students to learn how a social network can be a great asset to their learning. The same skills learning in Seesaw, will apply in the "real world!"]]> 2019-10-23 16:53:07 UTC https://padlet.com/aheffner2/lyzleo613ocm/wish/401581655 pattede https://padlet.com/aheffner2/lyzleo613ocm/wish/408998873 I loved the way the Nancy Watson discussed teaching Digital Citizenship every day in the article "Digital Citizenship in Two Minutes or Less". I would like to use Twitter in a more productive manner and since I teach math it's hard to have rich discussions during class. One way I can do this is to find something interesting on Twitter and share it with the class, showing them how they can use this tool, as well as others, to connect with their peers in a more positive manner. 

Since I use Schoology to manage my classes, it's important that my students interact appropriately online. My goal is to create a more connected learning environment for my students outside of the brick and mortar classroom, but I am struggling with how to do this in my content. In order to do this effectively, I need to spend more time discussing with my students the benefits of the tools they have at their disposal, provided they use them for good and not evil, (collaborating versus copying) and show them how they can learn authentically while working together toward a common goal in a virtual environment. ]]> 2019-11-09 13:27:56 UTC https://padlet.com/aheffner2/lyzleo613ocm/wish/408998873