Tool #11 Digital Citizenship

I would like my students to understand that good digital citizens:

• Know how to use the technology appropriately inside the classroom and everywhere.
• Know how to search and validate sources; not everything they will read is necessarily true.
• Use technology for a good purpose, take care of using it safely and civilly.

In order to teach them digital citizenship I will first read SBISD Acceptable Use Policy, watch the Atomic Learning tutorials and visit websites like Cool Cat Teacher which seems very realistic.

I will make a summary with grade level/age related examples; then, specifically talk about iPod Touch use and blogging guidelines and the 9 themes of Digital Citizenship. I will make an analogy about literates and the new being literate, the Digital Literates.

Finally and all the time, I will model, model, model.