July 14: Digital Citizenship

Today we are going to consider the flip side of all the amazing resources we've been looking at. There's no doubt that technology has had an amazing effect on our lives, but it becomes easy to forget how spectacular some of these things really are -- and easy to abuse them as well. Working with students, we can create digitally responsible citizens who think and act responsibly.

• Technology and happiness: Are we happy? How can we become happy?
• Morning challenge blog post on how technology has affected your life, and your students'
• Introduce the concept of the Trillion Dollar Footprint -- what you say and do online lasts forever
• Explore Holy Spirit Catholic Schools' digital citizenship documents -- together and independently
• You'll notice these make frequent reference to Common Sense Media -- let's take a look at some of their digital citizenship resources
• Challenge #2: Create a presentation in Google Drive to go along with one of the lessons on the CSM website that you think you could use in your classroom
• Extension Activity 1: Visit the Digital Bytes site. This site teaches teens digital citizenship and media creation. Complete an activity on the site.
• Extension Activity 2: Explore the games based digital citizenship sites on offer from CSM