Curriculum+Collaborations

//"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 Lindsey
 * [[image:natsgroup2.jpg width="191" height="223"]] || The **teacher-created** lessons posted to this page represent a sampling of what we anticipate to be a growing, dynamic list of core curriculum connections to digital citizenship themes. It is our hope that these resources will help teachers to weave this important life skill - the 5th //**C**// of 21st century skills - into subjects they are already teaching.

If you are weaving digital citizenship into your curriculum, we would love to include your resources and projects! For ideas on how teachers are making cross-curricular connections, check out our presentation from the 2012 K12Online Conference.

We have designed the graphic organizer listed below to help structure and facilitate student discourse on the common threads that connect current issues of digital citizenship to themes, events, and characters students will encounter in grade-level curriculum, adopted textbooks, and mandated school programs. ||

|| //**Digital ID Compare and Contrast Graphic Organizer - PDF**// ||
 * //**Digital ID Compare and Contrast Graphic Organizer - Word Doc**//

**Focus 1: Stepping Up**

 * ~ //**Unit Connections**// ||~ //**Elem**// ||~ //**Mid**// ||~ //**High**// ||
 * I'm American Too - U.S. History/ELA lesson on constitutional rights and responsibilities - Gail Desler ||  || 8th ||   ||
 * Beyond Anne Frank - U.S. History Unit on Holocaust - Erin Goldman ||  ||   || 11th ||
 * The Circuit - English/Social Studies - Karen Larsen ||  || 8th ||   ||
 * Stand Up, Speak Out! - English - Bob LeVin ||  ||   || 11th ||
 * While the World Watched - U.S. History - Dawnielle Black ||  ||   || 11th ||
 * World War II Internees & To Kill a Mockingbird - English - Gretchen Henry ||  ||   || 9th-10th ||
 * Gallery of Heroes - English - Natalie Bernasconi Prezi of our Work ||  || 7th-8th ||   ||

Focus 2: Building Online Identities
July 5, 2012. This course is an invitation to students, student-and-parent teams, parents, teachers, administrators- anyone who would like to explore and examine their digital footprint! ||= x ||= x ||= x ||
 * ~ //Unit Connections// ||~ //Elem// ||~ //Mid// ||~ //High// ||
 * From Summary Writing to Blogging & Podcasting 5th grade teacher Rudy Alfonso || 5th ||  ||   ||
 * Tracking Your Digital Footprint from Verena Roberts, a free 6-week online course beginning

Focus 3: Respecting Boundaries

 * ~ //Unit Connections// ||~ //Elem// ||~ //Mid// ||~ //High// ||
 * The Long Distance Email Race, Part 3 - What Is Plagiarism? 6th grade teacher Karl Mansfield || 6th ||  ||   ||
 * Digital Citizenship - Motion Movies - Scenarios for and from Vermont teachers || 6th || 7th-8th ||  ||

Focus 4: Protecting Online Privacy and Security

 * ~ //Unit Connections// ||~ //Elem// ||~ //Mid// ||~ //High// ||
 * Kids Book Blog 5th/6th grade teacher Denise Phillips || 5th-6th ||  ||   ||

Multi-Foci Lessons:
The is a K-12 method for students to develop their digital vocabulary by collaboratively creating a Glossary of A-Z Digital Citizenship Terms

l provides a way to use PSAs to help students (Gr 4-12) learn consequences of their inappropriate use of technology that goes beyond punitively taking away their access. Lessons Learned PSA features 6 student actors telling about real events in which students used technology inappropriately, but learned from the experience. Sharing these stories provides a way to help students (Gr 4-12) recognize the consequences of their poor choices in an empowering, not punitive way. It is our hope that viewers can benefit from listening to their "Lessons Learned."