Project+Overview

**Project Overview for Teachers - A Template **
//"Digital citizenship is not about creating a list of things to do or a stagnant curriculum that you can use for the next 10 years. It's about transforming yourself into a professional who can effectively research technology trends, monitor the uses of technology in your school or district, avoid the fear factor that can easily paralyze you, and empower student-centered learning to create vibrant, exciting learning projects."// Vicki Davis & Julie Lindsay

We wanted to share the planning process we went through in developing the Digital ID project. Having a template had proved helpful in keeping focused on our initial goals. We offer it here as a potentially useful template for developing your own iteration of a collaborative digital citizenship project. For your convenience, we've also created a blank template for your convenience.

**Project Title:** Digital ID


 * Project Facilitators: ** Natalie Bernasconi & Gail Desler


 * Target Students: ** Gr 5-11 (Strategies will be appropriate for and easily adapted to grades 4-12)


 * Time Frame: ** Full School Year

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 * Content Area: ** Tech Integration / ELA & Core - Project will be woven into the core curriculum, mainly ELA and HSS.
 * Standards:**
 * ISTE NETS Standards
 * Common Core Standards: To be aligned with specific core curriculum (and if you're feeling a little overwhelmed on how merge your current teaching practice with CCSS, check out this CCSS Crosswalk EZ video).
 * Project description: ** Digital Citizenship: A focus on the safe, effective, and **ethical** use of the Internet


 * Essential Questions:**
 * What does it mean to be a (digital) //citizen//?
 * What are my rights as a //citizen//?
 * What are my responsibilities as a //citizen//?

> > Within the core curriculum (ELA & HSS), students will explore common threads across time, location, historical and current events around incidents of racism, discrimination, exclusion, and forced removal of any group of people. As they examine the 4 roles of bullying ~ cyberbullying: //bully, victim, bystander, upstander// - they will create multimedia projects that promote positive digital citizenship.
 * Student Learning Objectives and Outcomes:**
 * **Stepping Up ~ Cyberbullying:** By examining bullying within their own lives and across historical events and time periods, students will consider the importance of empathy as a 21st century skill. Stemming from a recent ISTE presentation by Alan November, supported by the ASCD, empathy is equally important as “such critical skills as creativity, collaboration and adaptability in a 21st-century global information economy.”


 * **Building Identities ~ Digital Footprint:** By examining the importance of maintaining a positive digital identity, students will learn how to employ self-regulation to manage their own digital footprint.


 * **Respecting Boundaries ~ Intellectual Property**: By employing critical thinking, students will learn the ethical use of intellectual property.

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 * **Protecting Online Security and Privacy:** By studying common threats to electronic security and equipment, students will learn to protect themselves and sensitive information.

Students will collaborate in a shared mission to educate themselves and the community (including peers, younger students, parents, and community stakeholders), about digital citizenship. They will create multi-media projects (options include Voicethread, Glogster, podcasts, videos, PPT or Prezis, etc) that transform their research into actions that empower.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What they will do: **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Free tech tools students can use: **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Movie making programs (e.g., Movie Maker, PhotoStory 3) - Need a tutorial? Check out this toolkit.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Collaborative storytelling programs (e.g.,VoiceThread, Glogster) - Here are tutorials for VoiceThread and Glogster.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Collaborative writing tools (blog, wiki, Google docs, Wall Wisher) - Yep, we have some tutorials for blogs, wikis, Google Docs and Wall Wisher.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Pre-writing organizers ( Bullying Characteristics http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson935/examination.pdf
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Online Compare and Contrast Map - [|http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/compare-contrast-30066.htm__]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Social networks for students (e.g., Fakebook, Edmodo, Collaborize Classroom ) - Here are 4 tips for bringing social networks into the classroom.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Partnerships: **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Within school sites and across districts, regions, and the world
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">City Council / Police Services / District and City Attorneys
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">County Offices of Education
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Regional and statewide programs, such as California Technology Assistance Programs (CTAP)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wiki_link_ext">National programs, such as the National Writing Project (NWP)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wiki_link_ext">Global programs, such as MERIT


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How will you know they have learned: **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Pre- and post survey of participating students (and a secondary survey of the wider student community) to establish baseline of student awareness of digital citizenship and current level of bullying officially reported to counselors AND unofficially reported through our survey
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Fewer incidents of bullying~cyberbullying reported by school administrator and/or counselor by end of school year
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Performance-based assessment through a multi-media project demonstrating mastery of digital citizenship concepts
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rubrics to be used will be drawn from several samples of multi-media project rubrics and then fine-tuned by participating teachers in both districts

Questions? Comments? Suggestions? Contact us at digital.ido@gmail.com