A presentation by Eileen Buhr about teaching digital citizenship skills to elementary school students. It summarizes a webinar by Craig Badura, while also providing a brief rationale for teaching digital citizenship, an outline of topics to cover, and links to a variety of other resources.

1. Digital Citizenship
Teaching students to practice safe, responsible and legal use of
technology

2. WEBINAR: The Digital Citizenship Survival Kit
https://www.commonsense.org/education/blog/webinar-spotlight-whats-in-your-digital-citizenship-survival-kit
Presented by Craig Badura, a public school integration specialist, this tool
brings abstract ideas to concrete understanding with props.
This webinar gives ideas of how to use common items as metaphors to
illustrate digital citizenship concepts and skills.
This digital citizenship “survival” kit can be adapted for Kindergarten to
early middle school students.
It’s fun, interactive, and educational!
Gather the props and you’re ready to go!

3. Rationale for
Teaching
Digital
Citizenship
Here is a link that explains, in video
form, why it is necessary to teach
Digital Citizenship. It is addressed to
parents but is applicable to teacher
librarians as they determine why
they should teach students to be
safe and responsible online.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
_wtaZXAAouI
• . . . Students must be “active, creative,
knowledgeable, and ethical participants in
our globally networked society.” (U.S. Dept.
of Education, 2010)
• “The best filter is the one between their
ears.” (Ohler, 2010)
Cyberbullying
Up to 40% of children
have been involved in
a cyberbullying
incident.
Kowalski, R. M., Giumetti, G. W., Schroeder, A. N.,
& Lattanner, M. R. (2014). Bullying in the digital
age: A critical review and meta-analysis of
cyberbullying research among youth. Psychological
Bulletin, 140(4), 1073.
Fake news
44% of kids age 10 to 18
feel they can tell fake
news stories from real
ones.
Common Sense Media. (2017).
News and America’s kids: How young people perceive
and are impacted by the news. San Francisco, CA:
Common Sense Media.
Online safety
13% of 2nd-3rd
grade students
report that they
used the Internet
to talk to people
they do not know.
https://brandongaille.com/38-important-
internet-safety-statistics/

4. Essential understandings
• Digital leadership might be a better phrase than digital citizenship.
• Because so much time is spent in the digital world, we need to help students
learn, communicate, and collaborate safely and responsibly.
• Teaching digital citizenship invests in a student’s future; an online profile can help
– or hinder - a student’s prospects for their future studies, employment, and
relationships.
• Digital citizenship also teaches students how to search for and authenticate
information.
• We need to provide digital citizenship professional development for teachers; we
need a digital citizenship curriculum.
• It’s important to talk to parents too about Digital Leadership, and how they can
help their children.

5. What would you take to
survive in a new land?
What should be in your Digital Citizenship kit for survival in
the world of technology?
Some selected ideas from the webinar:

6. Survival Kit
• Inside are some of the things you
will need as you live in this “new
landscape” of media and
technology
Digital Citizenship
Kit

7. Digital Footprint and Reputation:
Sharpie
• Use this as the first item
• Permanent; can’t get rid of it
• Ties in with the digital tattoo

8. Privacy and Security: Toothbrush
• Passwords are like toothbrushes
• Don’t share
• Change every 6 months
• There are websites to test
passwords to see if they are secure

9. Relationships and Communication:
Toothpaste
• Can’t get back your online
information just like trying to get
toothpaste back into the tube
• Once you say something, it’s out
there

10. Self Image and Identity:
Packet of Seeds
• Might not be relevant to older kids
but more for younger kids getting
started online
• Planting a seed – a digital presence /
tattoo that will grow as you spend
more time online
• What kind of “plant / weed” will be
evident as we grow our digital
footprint

11. Information Literacy: Strainer
• We should filter some of the things
that we take in from online activity
• We wish kids would have a built in
strainer
• Tie in with authenticity on the
Internet – who we really are
• Can we believe everything we read
and see on the Internet?
• Strain out the bad stuff

12. Internet Safety: New Sheet of Paper
• Teaches about cyberbullying, digital
drama, or even general unkindness
on the Internet
• Crumple up the paper; dramatically
stomp on it and get it dirty
• The words and actions we do online
can leave a scar in people’s lives that
can’t be easily smoothed over
• Apologies (ie smoothing the paper
flat) can help but may not repair the
damage to the relationship

13. Creative Credit and Copyright:
Photo
• Take a picture of a student’s artwork
and substitute the teacher’s name
as the artist
• Useful as an example for teaching
about copyright and giving credit
My name

14. Topics to Cover in Teaching Digital
Citizenship
https://www.commonsense.org/education/digital-citizenship
Internet Safety
Privacy and Security
Relationships and Communication
Cyberbullying and Digital “Drama”
Digital Footprint and Reputation
Self-image and Identity
Information Literacy
Creative Credit and Copyright.

15. Other links that tie in with this webinar:
Other links and resources from Craig Badura
Look under “Digital Citizenship Resources” and “DC Days” for links to sites, apps,
and games on this topic.
Digizen - online games, videos and links to reinforce digital citizenship education
This is a website that has a variety of activities including an interactive game that
reinforces responsible understanding of digital citizenship.
Slideshare for the Digital Citizenship Survival Kit
This is one example of a Slideshare that can be used alongside presenting the props
used in the digital citizenship “survival” kit.
Common Sense Media
Todd Badura posted this webinar through Common Sense Media, a leading media
and technology education organization.

16. Links to other digital citizenship
resources:
Curriculum Ideas: Lester B. Pearson School Board Digital Citizenship Program
• A framework of objectives for teaching digital citizenship to students of all ages
• http://dcp.lbpsb.qc.ca/curriculum/
“Teaching Digital Citizenship in the Elementary Classroom"
• Informative article by Mary Beth Hertz, Edutopia: October 2011
• Lesson resources and links
• https://www.edutopia.org/blog/digital-citizenship-mary-beth-hertz
Video Playlist: Digital Citizens
• Video resources and teaching ideas
• https://www.teachingchannel.org/blog/2013/10/18/digital-citizens-video-playlist/

17. Example of an Image to Teach Digital Literacy
(primary students)

18. Example of an Image to Teach Digital Literacy
(intermediate students)

19. This was created using PowerPoint
and presented through Slideshare
Information on Slideshare:
• World’s largest community for sharing presentations - get ideas, share ideas
• Requires a LinkedIn account (free)
• Users can like, comment and collaborate on a presentation
• Can follow the creator of the presentation; they may have more work that is of
interest to you
• Can be public or private
• Can search for presentations on different topics, download them and change them
• Can get statistics on how many people have viewed your presentation, how many
likes, how many downloads

20. Images used:
http://lessonsbysandy.com/2012/10/digital-citizenship.html (I Am a Digital Citizen poster for primary students)
http://mrspsclass.blogspot.ca/2015/02/digital-citizenship_27.html (Digital Citizen Infographic for intermediate students)
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwiMmqvQ6vfaAhWorFQKHWtpDLMQjRx6BAgBEAU&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cgtrader.com%2F3d-
models%2Fhousehold%2Fother%2Ftoothbrush-5740ef83-f04a-4cce-a7f2-e69ac30926f8&psig=AOvVaw2mxH8j84yJWhC8fm04R- (Image – toothbrush)
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwiJ15DW6_faAhUJ6GMKHeBHDOoQjRx6BAgBEAU&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFile
%3AScott_King%2527s_piece_of_paper.JPG&psig=AOvVaw3N7FKjZtzikz7gsG01fC8i&ust=1525927782496309 (Image – piece of paper)
https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.pinimg.com%2Foriginals%2Ff0%2F0b%2Fab%2Ff00babe70b9d3ca6e2178182c7b8cfe1.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pin
terest.com%2Fpin%2F427419820858176606%2F&docid=M3bO6oxQr0LfjM&tbnid=lXbahAOTkWvcCM%3A& (Image – toolbox)
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwi---
KD7PfaAhVDyWMKHVd2D1sQjRx6BAgBEAU&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gettyimages.com%2Fphotos%2Ftoothpaste&psig=AOvVaw20sEiHtcPtao3Guebc26pi&ust=1525928294274829
(Image – toothpaste)
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwil5emA7ffaAhUK2GMKHaF2B9wQjRx6BAgBEAU&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cancuncookies.com%2F2013%2F01%2
Fzakka-memo-book-cover-tutorial.html&psig=AOvVaw1OfQ_FmxFtKCeMdFgIwkj5&ust=1525928548712095 (Image – memo book)
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwicw9q87ffaAhVM1WMKHYu2AH0QjRx6BAgBEAU&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ontimesupplies.com%2Fsan30001
-permanent-marker-fine-point-black-dozen.html&psig=AOvVaw3qSBOfzWHXK_fdsmSmROl6&ust=1525928677616 (Image – Sharpie)
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjL192C7vfaAhUX5GMKHco3BT4QjRx6BAgBEAU&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpreparingyourfamily.com%2Fproject-
sprouts-takes-shape%2F&psig=AOvVaw0VFicdY9ANLIHy_0_sxHMl&ust=1525928819029347 (Image – seeds)
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwj45KzY7vfaAhUdS2MKHcq8C8EQjRx6BAgBEAU&url=http%3A%2F%2Feckraus.com%2F10-strainer-double-mesh-
stainless-steel%2F&psig=AOvVaw2X68khdrgT4w_YTtlch2Iw&ust=1525928979878768 (Image – strainer)
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjc7_Cy7_faAhVjVWMKHf26Dr0QjRx6BAgBEAU&url=https%3A%2F%2Fempoweryourknowledgeandhappytrivia.
wordpress.com%2F2015%2F02%2F12%2Fwho-painted-the-mona-lisa%2F&psig=AOvVaw3B9V7ZO_BfOKgKf6Xy7EHa (Image – Mona Lisa painting)