Digital Rights & Responsibilities
DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP
Target Goal:
Helping teachers and students understand how to behave appropriately and respect others while interacting on the Internet
The teaching of digital citizenship should include clear expectations for students of how online and mobile tools should be used responsibly to interact with the world. Adults and students alike need to learn the boundaries and responsibilities of living in a digital world.
Target Goal:
Helping teachers and students understand how to behave appropriately and respect others while interacting on the Internet
The teaching of digital citizenship should include clear expectations for students of how online and mobile tools should be used responsibly to interact with the world. Adults and students alike need to learn the boundaries and responsibilities of living in a digital world.
- Ensure policies and procedures for the use of technology are clear
- Make students aware of the "digital footprint" that is left every time they post on the Internet or use mobile devices to exchange information
- Have ongoing conversations and model with students about how to act appropriately when posting and sharing information online
Digital Footprint
The data and information left behind in online databases, on webpages, and on social media services such as YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook makes up a person’s digital footprint. The information may be stored with or without the knowledge of the person using the service - intentionally or unintentionally.
Once a video, photo, or message is uploaded to a website or social network, or sent to a mobile device, it can be nearly impossible to retrieve or delete. With this shared information, other people can duplicate it, share it without permission or take a picture or screenshot of it, so even if the owner deletes it, it may not be gone completely. Learning to manage your digital footprint is a critical skill to have today.
View the video below to learn about leaving a positive digital footprint
The data and information left behind in online databases, on webpages, and on social media services such as YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook makes up a person’s digital footprint. The information may be stored with or without the knowledge of the person using the service - intentionally or unintentionally.
Once a video, photo, or message is uploaded to a website or social network, or sent to a mobile device, it can be nearly impossible to retrieve or delete. With this shared information, other people can duplicate it, share it without permission or take a picture or screenshot of it, so even if the owner deletes it, it may not be gone completely. Learning to manage your digital footprint is a critical skill to have today.
View the video below to learn about leaving a positive digital footprint
CYBERBULLYING
Use of digital communication tools to make another person feel angry, sad, or scared - usually again and again. Repetition and intent are defining characteristics of this type of bullying, although even a single experience can be life-changing for the victim and the attacker. Students need to understand what cyberbullying looks and sounds like, and what to do when they, or someone they know, are the target of an attack.
Preventing cyberbullying is everyone’s responsibility. Provide clear expectations for your students and model how a responsible digital citizen uses digital media to interact with their peers and the world.
Manage Classrooms to Prevent Bullying
Teachers can consider these ways to promote the respect, positive relations, and order that helps prevent bullying in the classroom:
Preventing cyberbullying is everyone’s responsibility. Provide clear expectations for your students and model how a responsible digital citizen uses digital media to interact with their peers and the world.
Manage Classrooms to Prevent Bullying
Teachers can consider these ways to promote the respect, positive relations, and order that helps prevent bullying in the classroom:
- Create ground rules.
- Develop rules with students so they set their own climate of respect and responsibility.
- Use positive terms, like what to do, rather than what not to do.
- Support school-wide rules.
- Reinforce the rules.
- Be a role model and follow the rules yourself. Show students respect and encourage them to be successful.
- Make expectations clear. Keep your requests simple, direct, and specific.
- Reward good behavior. Try to affirm good behavior four to five times for every one criticism of bad behavior.
- Use one-on-one feedback, and do not publicly reprimand.
- Help students correct their behaviors. Help them understand violating the rules results in consequences: “I know you can stop [negative action] and go back to [positive action]. If you choose to continue, then [consequence].”
RESOURCES
ResourcesUse the following lessons, resources, and videos in your classroom to help teach students about digital citizenship.
SHARING VIDEOS
Make sure you always review and watch videos before sharing with students. There are ways to safely share videos without advertisements...check out the following links below.
- Safe Share TV - lets you deliver any YouTube video with zero distractions FAQS
- TubeChop - lets you cut off as much of the beginning or end of a YouTube video and deliver it in a custom mode.
- YouTube Teachers
- SchoolTube
- Vimeo
- QuietTube - Add-on that provides a button you can use to easily create a custom QuietTube URL for any YouTube video, which then let’s it be played without distractions