Deep Dive: Communication & Responsibility
These are resources to help inspire thinking and creativity about how Digital Citizenship fits into our students’ lives and your curriculum. They are meant to help develop your thinking about the topics; you are not required to use any of these resources, but you may use all of them if they prove useful for you.
Some of these resources include full classroom lessons, and it may be helpful to reference resources from them as needed. But no one knows how to teach our students better than our faculty, and a full prepackaged curriculum will not provide an integrated approach that genuinely connects digital citizenship to academics at our school. Choose the resources that will work best for your students in your classroom with your curriculum.
Some of these resources include full classroom lessons, and it may be helpful to reference resources from them as needed. But no one knows how to teach our students better than our faculty, and a full prepackaged curriculum will not provide an integrated approach that genuinely connects digital citizenship to academics at our school. Choose the resources that will work best for your students in your classroom with your curriculum.
Teaching Students How to Legally Use Images Online Jennifer Gonzalez
As our students create more and more digital products as part of their school work, we need to coach them on appropriate usage for images they've found online. This article explains why, as educators, we shouldn't brush off image copyright as "technicalities," and why we can no longer assume that their work will not be seen outside our classroom. It also covers where students can find appropriately licensed images and how to cite those images in their work.
The Parent and Educator Guide to Media Literacy and Fake News ConnectSafely
We hear a lot about “fake news,” but that term, which was coined fairly recently, is really a symptom of much larger problems, including the lack of media literacy. In fact, Stanford Graduate School of Education recently found that more than 80% of middle and high school students surveyed were unable to distinguish between advertisements and real news stories. This guide provides real teaching strategies you can use to help your students hone their media literacy skills.
Copyright & Creativity for Ethical Digital Citizens iKeepSafe and Internet Education Foundation (IEF)
This sit offers a full curriculum for middle schools and another full curriculum for high schools with a focus on understanding copyright, Creative Commons, fair use, public domain, and more. With an engaging variety of videos, infographics, and professional learning materials, it can be incredibly useful for teaching students how to properly consume and create what they find online.
The Educator's Guide to Copyright, Fair Use, and Creative Commons The EduBlogger, Sue Waters
"Understanding digital copyright is an essential skill we need to understand and teach our students. With this post, we hope to dispel a few myths and pull together a complete list of resources for teachers and students to use when blogging and working with content online."
Lesson Plan: How to teach your students about fake news PBS NewsHour
Not only does this lesson plan realistically tackle fake news in a 50 minute class period, it is full of links to studies, articles, and websites that you and your students can reference as you work together to evaluate online information moving forward. One standout resource is this 10 Question Checklist for Fake News Detection. It is simple, practical, and usable in when talking about science research or political reports.
Checking Facts with Snopes, FactCheck, and PolitiFact and Thinking Critically About Internet Sources Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility
These lessons include readings, links to websites, and guiding questions that will help students develop the skills they need to find out whether the “facts” the see posted on websites and social media are accurate. While some of the scenarios are a couple of years old, the teaching strategies would be easy to apply to any class.
How Teachers Can Talk to Students About Media Literacy ConnectSafely
This article has lesson ideas and links to resources that help teachers coach their students on how to find, analyze, evaluate, utilize, and create media in this information-saturated digital age.
Teaching Copyright Electronic Frontier Foundation
There's a lot of misinformation out there about legal rights and responsibilities in the digital era. Teaching Copyright provides resources, lessons, and ideas for opening your classroom up to discussion, letting your students express their ideas and concerns, and then guiding your students toward an understanding of the boundaries of copyright law.
Copyrights and Wrongs Common Sense Education
This is a full lesson plan, but you could pull out just the animated video or the discussion questions if you are assigning students to create a multimedia project. It will help them understand more clearly when they can and cannot use music, images, video clips and other types of media they find online within their own remixed creations. (Note: You may need to make a free account to access some of the resources, but it is worthwhile.)
Going Public: Student Digital Scholarship and Copyright Fred Folmer, Connecticut College
Since students are often sharing their work beyond the classroom with tools like digital portfolios, students, librarians, and faculty alike will find themselves needing to consider copyright as part and parcel of their research process. This article contains links to helpful resources and a quick overview of the questions that need to be asked when doing this research.
MLA Formatting and Style Guide Purdue Online Writing Lab
The standard for updated information on MLA citations. This guide will come in handy when students are using any kind of online resource: articles, images, videos, podcasts, and more.
Responsible Image Use and Citation Elizabeth Solomon
This Google Doc is full of image citation tips and places to find images and media that are either in the public domain or have Creative Commons citations provided. Next time you assign a multimedia project be sure to reference these resources.
Fair Use Resources Youth and Media & Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University
Three incredible resources here: a 6 minute podcast that sums up fair use, a link to resources teachers can use in the classroom to teach fair use, and a beautiful infographic to print and hang that guides users through understanding fair use. All were developed by these two well-know organizations in partnership.
Strategies for Online Communication American Association for the Advancement of Science
This article includes a short video of a panel discussion and links to resources that explain how science and online communication are connected. It could be a great conversations starter to help learners understand how information is disseminated online and how they can determine which information is scientifically accurate as compared to the information that is popular, but perhaps not accurate. If you want to see the full panel, click here.
Why Good Business Email Etiquette is Essential in Global Communication Harvard University
Details about cultural differences in online communication; includes good tips for students on communicating with people from different cultures, but also good general digital communication tips (such as how to address an email to someone you don’t know well).
Global Digital Citizenship Quick Start Guide Global Digital Citizen Foundation
This guide for teachers starts with the detailed explanations of the 5 Tenets of the Global Digital Citizen according to the GBCF. Next it includes a Fluency Snapshot tool to help students self-assess their global digital citizenship skills. Finally, there are 6 scenarios you could use or adjust as you integrate these ideas into your lessons. The scenarios cover cultural and environmental awareness.
How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life New York Times Magazine
This article investigates internet shaming. What motivates people to do it? What are the long-term consequences? The author traces the historical roots of public shaming and discusses why it was outlawed. In this era of digital media it is easier than ever to shame someone, and this article explains the phenomenon and its consequences.
Digital Citizenship iBooks Lessons Common Sense Education
This iBook is a free download and is filled with lesson ideas, realistic scenarios, video clips, and discussion prompts that you could add to your curriculum where they fit best. Feel free to explore and use the resources that make sense within your lessons and projects.
As our students create more and more digital products as part of their school work, we need to coach them on appropriate usage for images they've found online. This article explains why, as educators, we shouldn't brush off image copyright as "technicalities," and why we can no longer assume that their work will not be seen outside our classroom. It also covers where students can find appropriately licensed images and how to cite those images in their work.
The Parent and Educator Guide to Media Literacy and Fake News ConnectSafely
We hear a lot about “fake news,” but that term, which was coined fairly recently, is really a symptom of much larger problems, including the lack of media literacy. In fact, Stanford Graduate School of Education recently found that more than 80% of middle and high school students surveyed were unable to distinguish between advertisements and real news stories. This guide provides real teaching strategies you can use to help your students hone their media literacy skills.
Copyright & Creativity for Ethical Digital Citizens iKeepSafe and Internet Education Foundation (IEF)
This sit offers a full curriculum for middle schools and another full curriculum for high schools with a focus on understanding copyright, Creative Commons, fair use, public domain, and more. With an engaging variety of videos, infographics, and professional learning materials, it can be incredibly useful for teaching students how to properly consume and create what they find online.
The Educator's Guide to Copyright, Fair Use, and Creative Commons The EduBlogger, Sue Waters
"Understanding digital copyright is an essential skill we need to understand and teach our students. With this post, we hope to dispel a few myths and pull together a complete list of resources for teachers and students to use when blogging and working with content online."
Lesson Plan: How to teach your students about fake news PBS NewsHour
Not only does this lesson plan realistically tackle fake news in a 50 minute class period, it is full of links to studies, articles, and websites that you and your students can reference as you work together to evaluate online information moving forward. One standout resource is this 10 Question Checklist for Fake News Detection. It is simple, practical, and usable in when talking about science research or political reports.
Checking Facts with Snopes, FactCheck, and PolitiFact and Thinking Critically About Internet Sources Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility
These lessons include readings, links to websites, and guiding questions that will help students develop the skills they need to find out whether the “facts” the see posted on websites and social media are accurate. While some of the scenarios are a couple of years old, the teaching strategies would be easy to apply to any class.
How Teachers Can Talk to Students About Media Literacy ConnectSafely
This article has lesson ideas and links to resources that help teachers coach their students on how to find, analyze, evaluate, utilize, and create media in this information-saturated digital age.
Teaching Copyright Electronic Frontier Foundation
There's a lot of misinformation out there about legal rights and responsibilities in the digital era. Teaching Copyright provides resources, lessons, and ideas for opening your classroom up to discussion, letting your students express their ideas and concerns, and then guiding your students toward an understanding of the boundaries of copyright law.
Copyrights and Wrongs Common Sense Education
This is a full lesson plan, but you could pull out just the animated video or the discussion questions if you are assigning students to create a multimedia project. It will help them understand more clearly when they can and cannot use music, images, video clips and other types of media they find online within their own remixed creations. (Note: You may need to make a free account to access some of the resources, but it is worthwhile.)
Going Public: Student Digital Scholarship and Copyright Fred Folmer, Connecticut College
Since students are often sharing their work beyond the classroom with tools like digital portfolios, students, librarians, and faculty alike will find themselves needing to consider copyright as part and parcel of their research process. This article contains links to helpful resources and a quick overview of the questions that need to be asked when doing this research.
MLA Formatting and Style Guide Purdue Online Writing Lab
The standard for updated information on MLA citations. This guide will come in handy when students are using any kind of online resource: articles, images, videos, podcasts, and more.
Responsible Image Use and Citation Elizabeth Solomon
This Google Doc is full of image citation tips and places to find images and media that are either in the public domain or have Creative Commons citations provided. Next time you assign a multimedia project be sure to reference these resources.
Fair Use Resources Youth and Media & Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University
Three incredible resources here: a 6 minute podcast that sums up fair use, a link to resources teachers can use in the classroom to teach fair use, and a beautiful infographic to print and hang that guides users through understanding fair use. All were developed by these two well-know organizations in partnership.
Strategies for Online Communication American Association for the Advancement of Science
This article includes a short video of a panel discussion and links to resources that explain how science and online communication are connected. It could be a great conversations starter to help learners understand how information is disseminated online and how they can determine which information is scientifically accurate as compared to the information that is popular, but perhaps not accurate. If you want to see the full panel, click here.
Why Good Business Email Etiquette is Essential in Global Communication Harvard University
Details about cultural differences in online communication; includes good tips for students on communicating with people from different cultures, but also good general digital communication tips (such as how to address an email to someone you don’t know well).
Global Digital Citizenship Quick Start Guide Global Digital Citizen Foundation
This guide for teachers starts with the detailed explanations of the 5 Tenets of the Global Digital Citizen according to the GBCF. Next it includes a Fluency Snapshot tool to help students self-assess their global digital citizenship skills. Finally, there are 6 scenarios you could use or adjust as you integrate these ideas into your lessons. The scenarios cover cultural and environmental awareness.
How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life New York Times Magazine
This article investigates internet shaming. What motivates people to do it? What are the long-term consequences? The author traces the historical roots of public shaming and discusses why it was outlawed. In this era of digital media it is easier than ever to shame someone, and this article explains the phenomenon and its consequences.
Digital Citizenship iBooks Lessons Common Sense Education
This iBook is a free download and is filled with lesson ideas, realistic scenarios, video clips, and discussion prompts that you could add to your curriculum where they fit best. Feel free to explore and use the resources that make sense within your lessons and projects.