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Chat with Deb Digital Citizenship Watch this Chat with Deb Video Blog about conversations we should have with our students as well as laws and policies that are helping to protect our students.  Here is the presentation that goes with the video. Do you have certain topics, activities or resources that you use to teach students about digital citizenship? Please share with us.

We Need to Focus on Digital Citizenship . . . I'm On It!

October is Digital Citizenship Month As a technology integration specialist, I am often asked to find resources for classroom teachers on Digital Citizenship. Below is a collection of videos that specifically cover Digital Citizenship and Social Media.   Talking to students about their behavior online is very important to me. I know first hand with my own two sons, ages 15 and 17, that kids need direction and reminders of how they behave, not only online but in any social situation, including the classroom, in public and online. Here are four excellent resources for the classroom and for parents to help talk to students about Digital Citizenship and Social Media. Hashtag, You're It  shows the consequences of giving away your location and personal information using hashtags in social media. It's amazing that the people in the video are shocked by how much the host of the video knows about them when he approaches them. Kindness and thoughtfulness...

In October we focus on Digital Citizenship.   http://www.edtechschools.com/category/digital-citizenship/ One of the skills we want our students to be proficient at is having a critical eye when deciding if a website is a reliable and accurate source. We also want to make sure that our students have the ability to determine if the information on a website is credible. This is a serious issue when we consider the recent events with the Slenderman case of the young lady who was knifed because her friends believed in this fictional character. Watch this Chat with Deb to see how a new tool called Annotary can be used to have students mark up a webpage and share out what their critical eye sees.  Click here for Kathy Schrock's list of sites to use for critical evaluation Click here for Common Sense Media lessons Click here for Deb's Blendspace Lesson on Digital Footprints Click here for the Annotary site. Click here for the Annotary...