My students will practice Digital Etiquette when they blog on Kidblog during their stations time. I recently had a training on Kidblog and I plan on implementing it as a part of their readers response, or to have the students blogging about what they are learning in class. The students have to practice etiquette when writing their posts by ensuring that they use appropriate language and also while commenting on other students posts.

Creating Digital Citizens

I have decided to talk about Digital Access. A way that I would incorporate digital access is by doing a social studies lesson. I would begin with talking about how technology involved with pictures and how technology looks now. After view pictures I would integrate it into math and we would take a vote about the different types of technologies we have at home. After looking at the graph we would discuss that we have different resources at our finger tips and why it is important to realize that not everyone has the same things.

I teach a 5th grade engineering class.  The students were asked to post links, pictures, comments to the class padlet.  Prior to starting the assignment we had a discussion about good websites and appropriate information for the group to share.  

Digital Citizenship

Recently as the students had a Bulling presentation, we discuss about cyber bulling.  We discuss about what are the ways we can prevent cyber bulling, and we talk about the consequences.

Digital Citizenship: Etiquette and Safety

The aspect of digital citizenship I tend to incorporate is Digital Etiquette and Safety during student replies to posts on Edmodo specifically, during our vocabulary station. Students post a description of their vocabulary word with a real world example then leave a comment on another student's post.  Etiquette and safety procedure will help ensure meaningful, safe and appropriate comments. 

Regarding Digital Access, I use technology every time I do a lesson. As the librarian, I can focus on technology a bit more than the teachers. Many of our elementary students do not have computers or internet at home. I bring in notebooks or iPads for each lesson so they have the chance to get comfortable using computers. I also make sure I have enough so all of the kids have one in front of them and can do their own exploring/work/practice.

Digital Citizenship

Digital Citizenship is a daily part of my classes from Kindergarten through 5th grade.  We are always weaving in strategies and suggestions on staying safe on the internet from not talking to strangers to never giving out our personal information online.  I truly believe that the more they hear it, the more it will stick in their brains and they can then help teach others the "rules."  We have practiced digital citizenship with sending emails, watching a video on the "Cyber 5", cyber safety quizzes, creating inforgraphics on cyber safety, etc.