Module Objectives:

In this module, you will:

• Explore digital cititenship
• Develop a definition a definition of digital citizenship
• Brainstorm how to foster digital citizenship in your students
• Evaluate the information provided in websites
• Analyze the impact of digital footprints

Activity #1: Digital Citizenship & Digital Literacy

Review the materials below:

Video: Digital Citizenship | Things Explained https://ny.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/digital-citizenship-video/things-explained/

Reading: James et al. (2019)

common_sense_education_digital_citizenship_research_backgrounder-2-copy

Reading: UNICEF Digital Literacy (2020)

UNICEF-Global-Insight-digital-literacy-scoping-paper-2020-copy

Website: Digital Literacy Lessons from SPLC Learning for Justice

https://www.learningforjustice.org/digital-literacy-lessons

Website: Teaching Digital Citizenship to Children who Learn and Think Differently

https://www.commonsense.org/education/articles/teaching-digital-citizenship-to-kids-with-learning-and-attention-issues

Read: STEAM Mindset (Smith, 2020)

https://edtechbooks.org/k12handbook/steam?book_nav=true&opens=300,313,298,327,328,316,417&nav_pos=758

Optional Reading: Walters et al., (2019)

Walters-et-al-2019-1

Optional Reading: 21st Century Children as Digital Citizens

21st-Century-Children-as-Digital-Citizens-2-copy

Comment & Reply

Create a substantive 250+ word comment that connects to the sources in this activity and expands/extends the discussion:

• Thinking of your work with children, which definition of digital citizenship and digital literacy resonates with you? Why?
• How do/will you foster digital citizenship and digital literacy in the children you work with?
• How does your definition and strategies to foster digital citizenship/literacy connect to your values about computational thinking from module 1?

Reply to a colleague who has described strategy(s) different from what you wrote. In your response, analyze how your colleague’s strategies would work with your students and why.

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Activity #2: Evaluating Websites

Identify 2 websites you use with your students. Use the Evaluating Websites framework below to determine if the website is authentic, an authority, objective, and current. On the Padlet share:

• The 2 websites you reviewed & a summary of the results using the Evaluating Websites framework
• Strategies you use to help students to evaluate websites/social media/ information to determine if it is accurate, objective, current, and/or from a source that holds authority on the topic ?

https://padlet.com/jlongley/website-review-rncljqf6m8qda7kb

Evaluating-Website-Information-Activity

Activity #3: Construction Materials

Gather a set of construction materials. This website has examples of construction materials

https://live-explo.pantheonsite.io/tinkering/our-work/tinkering-at-home/creative-constructions

Activity #4: Survey

Please complete this survey to help me learn more about you! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeBPXSfVUWHxcCe1Gk8FMvct-ZoYFjTx8LyQNUMR5d0Pzd5Qw/viewform?usp=sf_link