It's always a good time to review the meaning and values of being a good digital citizen. According to www.ditigalcitizenship.net, digital citizenship is the norms of appropriate, responsible technology use.
A great website that teaches learners about digital citizenship is from Common Sense Education. Common Sense Education has created an entire course for grades kindergarten through twelfth grade on the subject. On their website, you can find lesson plans, web links, videos, printables, scope and sequence charts, and much more information. Each lesson is also aligned to common core national standards. As an added bonus, they have created two fun games that further teach the concepts. Click here for more information. Digital Passport was designed for grades 3-5. it is a free website (with a paid app also available), that allows users to complete tasks. In order to complete the task, the player must make positive choices when working with digital media. Digital Compass was designed for middle and high school learners. it is also a free website that transports the learner into the town of Anywhere. You must follow the path of the character you choose and be a respectful and responsible digital citizen.
A great website that teaches learners about digital citizenship is from Common Sense Education. Common Sense Education has created an entire course for grades kindergarten through twelfth grade on the subject. On their website, you can find lesson plans, web links, videos, printables, scope and sequence charts, and much more information. Each lesson is also aligned to common core national standards. As an added bonus, they have created two fun games that further teach the concepts. Click here for more information. Digital Passport was designed for grades 3-5. it is a free website (with a paid app also available), that allows users to complete tasks. In order to complete the task, the player must make positive choices when working with digital media. Digital Compass was designed for middle and high school learners. it is also a free website that transports the learner into the town of Anywhere. You must follow the path of the character you choose and be a respectful and responsible digital citizen.
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In order to learn more about this topic, Google has teamed up with iKeepSafe to develop three classes to establish the guidelines for being a responsible digital citizen. Grades 6-8 will focus on those three classes in Chrome class. Grade 3-5 will learn this topic through a program developed by PBSKids.org.
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PBSKids.org's webonauts (grades 3-5)
Visit PBSkids.org/webonauts for more details
About the Webonauts
Webonauts Internet Academy is a web original game for PBS KIDS GO! that gives kids 8- to 10-year-old an opportunity to have some fun while exploring what it means to be a citizen in a web-infused‚ information-rich world. It is an engaging experience on its own but becomes all the more powerful when parents and teachers use game play as a springboard for conversations about media literacy and citizenship in the 21st Century.
The Webonauts Story
As new recruits to the Webonauts Internet Academy‚ on a satellite space station‚ players are sent on a training mission on planet Bambu. While there‚ they encounter a mysterious enemy‚ The Great Static‚ who is set on stealing the Bamdudes’ cookie recipe (they are the best cookie makers in the Universe). During the course of the game‚ players receive on-the-job training and help the Bamdudes and save their cookie recipe!
Themes and Highlights
In taking on the role of a Webonaut and completing a series of missions‚ players confront issues central to good citizenship: identity‚ privacy‚ credibility and web safety. Game scenarios take place in both online and offline encounters because good citizenship spans both.
Key Words and Ideas
To help players get the most out of Webonauts Internet Academy‚ knowing some key terms will come in handy.
About the Webonauts
Webonauts Internet Academy is a web original game for PBS KIDS GO! that gives kids 8- to 10-year-old an opportunity to have some fun while exploring what it means to be a citizen in a web-infused‚ information-rich world. It is an engaging experience on its own but becomes all the more powerful when parents and teachers use game play as a springboard for conversations about media literacy and citizenship in the 21st Century.
The Webonauts Story
As new recruits to the Webonauts Internet Academy‚ on a satellite space station‚ players are sent on a training mission on planet Bambu. While there‚ they encounter a mysterious enemy‚ The Great Static‚ who is set on stealing the Bamdudes’ cookie recipe (they are the best cookie makers in the Universe). During the course of the game‚ players receive on-the-job training and help the Bamdudes and save their cookie recipe!
Themes and Highlights
In taking on the role of a Webonaut and completing a series of missions‚ players confront issues central to good citizenship: identity‚ privacy‚ credibility and web safety. Game scenarios take place in both online and offline encounters because good citizenship spans both.
Key Words and Ideas
To help players get the most out of Webonauts Internet Academy‚ knowing some key terms will come in handy.
- Citizenship: membership in a community
- Contribute: to give to a common cause; to participate
- Credibility: the quality of being believable or trustworthy
- Cyberbullying: online abusive behavior
- Information literacy: knowing how to think critically about resources‚ such as what makes a website reliable
- Motto: a short saying that expresses a rule to live by
- Observe: to watch carefully; to follow a rule
- Private: belonging to a particular person
- Profile: information a person shares about him or herself with others in a social network
- Public: available to all people within a broad community
- Respect: to value‚ admire and treat well
- Rumor: unverified talk or opinion that is easily spread to others
