Digital Citizenship
Why Teach Digital Citizenship?
Teachers invest time in teaching not only their academic subjects, but how students can be good citizens. With the ever growing and increasing use of technology, students need to learn how to be good citizens in an online digital world as well. Teaching digital citizenship is a proactive approach to helping students sift through the vast amount of information and resources available to them, and to make the right choices to collaborate and communicate effectively with others. You can find training geared towards teachers in the Google Training Center.
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Common Sense education
Our K–12 digital citizenship program includes comprehensive learning resources for students, teachers, and family members. Our 65 grade-differentiated lesson plans are based on the research of Dr. Howard Gardner and the Good Play Project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The program addresses real challenges for teachers and students to help schools navigate cyberbullying, internet safety, and other digital dilemmas.
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These lessons are from the Common Sense Scope and Sequence K-12 Digital Citizenship Curriculum found at commonsensemedia.org
To make the most of the Internet, kids need to be prepared to make smart decisions. Be Internet Awesome teaches kids the fundamentals of digital citizenship and safety so they can explore the online world with confidence.
Best suited for students ages 8-11.
Google's Be Internet Awesome
