Digital Citizenship Tools, Resources & Best Practices

K-12 Public Schools, State of California

Anne BubnicCTAP Region IVabubnic@marin.k12.ca.us

Cybersafety Project

CTAP Region IV, a California State-funded project, has been a leader in cybersafety education for the California public school system since 1997.

Influences on our work:

Federal & State Mandates for Cybersafety Education

California:• Assembly Bill 86 - Cyberbullying• Assembly Bill 307 (Chavez Bill) – Tech Plans• Broadband Improvement Act – ERATE

Legislation in other States– See:

http://www.diigo.com/list/abubnic/digital-citizenship_state-federal-mandates

Digital Citizenship Component in ISTE Standards for Students

Standard V – Digital Citizenship• Students understand human, cultural,

and societal issues related to technology and practice legal and ethical behavior.

Mill Valley School District Technology Plan (July 2009 - June 2012) 29

Influences on our work:

Digital Citizenship Component in ISTE Standards for Teachers

• Standard IV. Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility

Teachers understand local and global societal issues and responsibilities in an evolving digital culture and exhibit legal and ethical behavior in their professional practices.

Mill Valley School District Technology Plan (July 2009 - June 2012) 29

Influences on our work:

Other Influences on our CTAP work

9 Elements of Digital Citizenship

Gerald Bailey & Mike Ribble

http://www.digitalcitizenship.net/Nine_Elements.html

Full Disclosure

http://www.ctap4.net/projects/cybersafety.html

Current CTAP Cybersafety Web Site

New State CTAP Site- July 09http://www.myctap.org/cybersafety/index.cfm

CTAP4: Cybersafety Workshops & Conferences

• Worked with 100 school districts and over 1,000 schools in the San Francisco Bay Area

• Training for – School administrators– Classroom teachers – School librarians and school psychologists– Safe School Planning Teams, locally and state-

wide– AB 430 classes (Principals <2 years)– Train the trainers, CTAP statewide– Also use Student focus groups

Advantages of being a State agency• Access to hundreds of school districts• Ability to discover and share best practices• Can replicate work and deliver it at multiple

venues• Ability to videoconference to multiple county

offices of education and do large events.• Able to work with individual school districts and

tailor programs to their needs.• Can train-the-trainers over large geographical

areas• Training is often tied in to state funding

requirements.

CyberSafety Poster

• 7,000 posters distributed to teachers in the San Francisco Bay Area.

• Available in English/Spanish

• Downloadable from the CTAP Site

Cybersafety Focus Areas for Students

• Six focus areas – all relate back to the poster.

• Resources identified for each

• Training agendas provided online

• Downloadable PPTs, games

CTAP School Administrator Resources

http://www.ctap4.net/projects/cybersafety/administrator-resources.html

CTAP School Administrator Resources

CTAP Administrator Resources

• Attendee Workshop Agendas available to everyone

• Trainer Agenda (complete with all links) available to everyone.

All CTAP workshop resources available for download and sharing

Diigo Feeds into Cybersafety Page

Diigo Feed from Specific Topic List

Diigo Feed: Digital Citizenship Group – all topics.

Cyberbullying Section of CTAP site

*Asterisk means it was used in the PPT preso on cyberbullying

http://www.ctap4.net/projects/cybersafety/cybersafety-education-links-directory.html

Cybersafety PPT Available to Teachers

“Student Voices” added to CTAP PPT

Student Voices Added to PPTs

Student statements – available in the PPTs for anyone to print & use.

Most educators agree that students should be educated on Internet safety. The BIG question for those educators

however, is how and where to fit cybersafety education into a curriculum

that is already packed.

Health Class, Amador Valley High School, Pleasanton, CA

Health Class, Amador Valley H.S., Pleasanton, CA

http://www.pleasanton.k12.ca.us/avhsweb/library/cslapresentation.html

Amador Valley High School, Student Products

Amador Valley High School, Student Products

Science Curriculum, Web Wise Kids

In Grade 6, science teachers combine use of the software program, MISSING from Web Wise Kidswith curriculum designed to teach research methods and data collection. In “Missing,” students are challenged to outwit an Internet predator and avoid being his next victim.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HNpcvs8ack

Social Skills Curriculum (Gr 4/5)Bel Aire School, Tiburon CA

Dizzywood participated in an elementary school program with the Reed Union School District (Marin County, CA). The highly interactive workshop uses virtual activities to reinforce the school's character pillars, which include caring, citizenship, fairness, respect, responsibility and trustworthiness. Students also learn about important issues relating to virtual worlds, such as digital citizenship and online safety, as well as complete storytelling and team-building exercises that emphasize creativity, writing and reading skills, and working together to achieve goals.

http://www.dizzywood.com/

Acalanes High School• Created a computer

based online solution. Using Blackboard for students and staff training.

• The course is structured around the six areas of the CTAP 4 cybersafety poster as well as the district’s Academic Honesty Policy.

Social Skills Curriculum (Gr 4/5)Bel Aire Elementary, Tiburon, CA

•6-week pilot project teaching digital citizenship in a virtual world•Gave students a chance to practice what they learned in character education•Students engaged in activities that trained them “to play by the rules,” to “protect the environment,” and “to cooperate with others.”•Virtual world experiences were always followed by classroom instruction

http://www.dizzywood.com

http://www.adinasdeck.com/

School Assemblies

9th Grade Computer Literacy Class•Rural High School in Northern CA•Used Adina’s Deck DVD’s to teach a unit on Copyright, Web Ethics, Etiquette and Internet Safety •Used the Case of the Plagiarized Paper to introduce lessons on avoiding plagiarism•Used Cyberbullying DVD after a cyberbullying incident at the school.•Community of Caring model for character education, so the Adina’s Deck footage is especially appropriate.

Other Digital Citizenship examples• You can find more examples of how schools

are implementing digital citizenship topics into their curriculum by going to this DIIGO list:

http://www.diigo.com/user/abubnic/DCwiki