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Digital Safey and Security 

Introduction
 Laptops, cell phones, online games, instant messages, social networking... **TWEET.** The list goes on and on, students are using technology on a daily basis. They are collaborating and making connections, they are Digital Citizens. Who is teaching them what goes along with all of these connections? Today's students are entirely comfortable with technology, but are they using it appropriately?
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Simply banning cell phones and network access to Facebook isn't going to help our students once they leave our school buildgings. Everyone--administrators, board members, teachers, parents and students--need to be involved in the dialogue about the appropriate use of technology. Everyone must learn about Digital Citizenship.

[|"Digital Citizenship] is a concept which helps teachers and technology leaders understand what students should know to use technology appropriately. But Digital Citizenship is more that just a teaching tool, it is a way to prepare students for a society full of technology. Too often we are seeing students as well as adults misusing and abusing technology. The issue is more than what the users do not know but instead what is considered appropriate technology usage".- [|from the book][|'Digital Citizenship in Schools'] by Mike Ribble and Gerald Bailey.

Cyber bullying is an important issue related to digital citizenship. Please begin by reading [|"How to Stop Cyberbullying" by Larry Magid], an article that discusses new complexities for students in the digital landscape, and how we, as educators, can discuss and combat these issues.

Discovery Exercises


 Explore some websites dedicated to digital citizenship. Many of them have links to other resources, spend some time clicking through them.  Blog about something you learned that you think is important for students to know about and any ideas for how you might integrate these concepts into your classroom. = =
 * **Mike Ribble's website on Digital Citizenship**- []
 * **Common Sense-** []
 * **Educational Origami** - []
 * **Kenton County Schools**- []

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> View the following videos from youtube highlighting two of the nine elements of digital citizenship.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Digital** **Etiquette:**
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> media type="youtube" key="h38s-kyn2jc" height="344" width="425" [|Internet Safety PSA]

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__Exercise 2B__
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 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Find a short video** ([|youtube] or [|teachertube]) that illustrates one of the 9 elements of digital citizenship. **Embed** it in your [|iTeach] blog.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Take the Digital Citizen Quiz** - [] **Report** your score at your [|iTeach] blog.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Write a **blog post** that reflects your thoughts on Digital Citizenship. Who should be teaching this? What should students know? What should teachers know? What should parents know?

//*Course adapted from K-12 Learning 2.0 as developed by Shelley Paul.//

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