TeachersFirst's Gifted: Tools to Teach Proper Digital Citizenship
It is critical for all students (especially gifted students) to know and understand digital citizenship. Digital Citizenship is at the forefront of classroom discussions with the growth of Bring Your Own Device/Tool classrooms. It is imperative our students are responsible Digital Citizens and that these skills are cultivated early on our students' educational journey. DAT tools provide multiple opportunities, but they also come with responsibilities.
Use this collection of resources to empower your students to build their own concepts of Digital Citizenship and to learn how to leave a positive digital footprint. Be sure to read the suggestions in the Classroom Use for specific ideas to use with your gifted students.
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Digital Citizenship - Jacqui Murray
Grades
K to 8This site includes advertising.
tag(s): copyright (46), creative commons (29), cyberbullying (41), digital citizenship (89), internet safety (113)
In the Classroom
Bookmark this article for finding resources and understanding topics to be included when teaching Digital Citizenship. Share during professional development sessions and during meetings when discussing digital policies at your school. For older students, have groups split up the 19 topics to research and present to the class. Use a tool like Zoho Show (similar to Powerpoint, but easier and free), reviewed here, to present findings. Be sure to share information from this article with parents to discuss with their student.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Digital Passport - Common Sense Media
Grades
3 to 5tag(s): cyberbullying (41), digital citizenship (89), game based learning (171)
In the Classroom
Create an account and assign activities to students to complete at home or on classroom computers. Share this site on your projector or interactive whiteboard. Have students create a word cloud of the important terms they learn from this site using a tool such as Word Clouds for Kids, reviewed here, for younger students, or WordItOut, reviewed here, for older students. Be sure to share Digital Passport with parents and other teachers as an excellent resource for teaching digital citizenship.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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4 Free Photos - 4freephotos.com
Grades
K to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): copyright (46), creative commons (29), images (262), photography (126)
In the Classroom
Starting a lesson on copyright? With so much social media and access to almost anything on the web, it is important to teach students about copyright and about owner's rights. Use this site to search for photos for presentations, photos, projects, or research. For your ENL/ESL students or speech/language, use the images for them to create their own visual dictionary. World language teachers can also challenge students to use images to illustrate vocabulary or accompany writing. Use images for writing prompts or even to create descriptive sentences. Have one student describe the image as another sketches the image. Now compare the described image to the real image. To find more Creative Commons images for student projects (with credit, of course), try Vecteezy, reviewed here, or Pikwizard, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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PleaseDon'tCheat - Copyright - New York Online
Grades
5 to 12tag(s): copyright (46), digital citizenship (89), ethics (23), plagiarism (34)
In the Classroom
This site is a must-have in the toolbox for all secondary teachers. Bookmark and save this site to use for discussion questions and factual information on plagiarism. Share the videos on your projector or interactive whiteboard. View a video each week and discuss contents. View specific videos addressing concerns that arise in your classroom. Share this site with parents at meet the teacher (Back to School) night for their use at home. Share a link to the site on a prominent place on your class website or blog for student reference at any time.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Wikimedia Commons - Wkimedia Foundation
Grades
K to 12tag(s): creative commons (29)
In the Classroom
Address the needs of the visual learner and include media files as part of the research process. Wikipedia Commons offers a way for students to gain an understanding of content through images, sounds, and video. Give students the opportunity to communicate their knowledge by narrating a slideshow of images found on Wikipedia Commons or create multimedia presentations on a site such as Lucidpress, reviewed here. These free media files will also help ENL/ESL teachers explain concepts and key vocabulary. This site is a valuable resource for imagery useful when creating presentations, lectures, digital stories, reports or to include on a class websites. Students learning a foreign language may benefit from using Wikipedia Commons to learn about more about the culture and lifestyle of the country whose language they are studying.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Vecteezy - Eezy Inc
Grades
K to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): creative commons (29), images (262), search engines (50)
In the Classroom
Users need to be able to use good search terms to find the best pictures possible as well as knowing how to save images on their computer. Use in the classroom any time that an image is needed for projects, even if it is not going to be put on a website for others to see. Be sure students are aware that any time another person's image is used, they must give full credit for it, even if that owner cannot see it. Demonstrate Vecteezy on a projector or interactive whiteboard so students know how to use it. Student groups can use Vecteezy to collectively find the best image to use for a project. Have students create a multimedia presentation using Image Annotator, reviewed here. For example, students studying renewable energy can use Vecteezy to find images of various renewable energy sources, then explain them using Image Annotator. Teachers can collect Creative Commons images for use on their interactive whiteboard for sorting activities (monocots and dicots, producers and consumers, etc). Never assume that your students, even the gifted ones, understand about giving proper credit and only using copyright-safe images (CC or public domain). Vecteezy makes it easier. Be sure to hold students accountable by including a "digital citizenship" category in your project rubric, requiring proper credit for all images. You will want to spot-check a few of the URLs to be sure they are actually correct credits. Share Vecteezy as an important tool on your class web page, wiki, or blog so students can access it anywhere, anytime.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Common Sense Media - Common Sense Media Inc.
Grades
1 to 12tag(s): internet safety (113), movies (51), parents (60), safety (71)
In the Classroom
Let your students' parents know about this site via your teacher web page or class newsletter. You may also want to share it with your school PTO or PTA.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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