Digital citizenship is a holistic and positive approach to helping children learn how to be safe and secure, as well as smart and effective participants in a digital world.
Darlington is committed to teaching all students how to become positive digital citizens. That means helping them understand their rights and responsibilities, recognize the benefits and risks of being a digital citizen, and realize the personal and ethical implications of their actions. Technology integrators work with faculty members to teach Digital Citizenship and Internet Safety, focusing on three key areas:
Safety & Security: Understanding the risks that we face from others as well as from our own conduct, and the dangers posed by applications like viruses and phishing.
Digital Literacy: Learning how to find, sort, manage, evaluate and create information in digital forms. These literacy skills build on but are somewhat different from the traditional literacy of reading and writing.
Ethics & Community: Becoming aware of and practicing appropriate and ethical behaviors in a variety of digital environments. This area includes shaping your digital reputation and being a responsible citizen of the communities in which you participate, from social networks to games, to neighborhood civic forums.
Technology Integration Specialist Beth Wardlaw will be providing an Internet Safety and Digital Citizenship course to students in grades 6-8 during the week of Dec. 14-17. She will be using a curriculum from Common Sense Media. Each student will complete an online workbook covering the following topics:
Strategic Searching
Scams and Schemes
Cyberbullying
A Creator’s Rights
A Creator’s Responsibilities
Safe Online Talk
Which Me Should I Be Online?
Gender Stereotypes Online
Your Digital Footprint
Identifying High-Quality Sites
The Reality of Digital Drama
Workbooks can be viewed and downloaded at the iBooks Store.
In my role as Darlington's Technology Integration Coordinator, I will be providing an Internet Safety and Digital Citizenship course to students in ninth grade during the weeks of Jan. 5-8 and 11-15. These classes will take place during their scheduled Health and P.E. times.
The Common Sense Media curriculum will also be used, and students will be completing a workbook that can be viewed and downloaded in the iBooks Store.
Topics covered will be:
My Digital Life
Copyrights and Wrongs
Feeling on Display: Social Media
Cyberbullying
My Online Code
Who Are You Online?
Overexposed: Sexting and Relationships
Risky Online Behavior
Internet Privacy
Breaking Down Hate Speech
Retouching Reality
