Digital Citizenship
ISTE Standard 5 - Technology coaches model and promote digital citizenship.
a. Model and promote strategies for achieving equitable access to digital tools and resources, and technology-related best practices for all students and teachers.
b. Model and facilitate safe, healthy, legal, and ethical uses of digital information and technologies.
c. Model and promote diversity, cultural understanding, and global awareness by using digital age communication and collaboration tools to interact locally and globally with students, peers, parents, and the larger community.
Over the past two years my support of digital citizenship has evolved to suit our technology and resources. This year, I began by presenting a basic Digital Citizenship lesson to each of our 2nd-6th grade classes in late August and early September (click the image to the right to view).
August & September 2016
October 2016
After planning with my site leadership and my TIS department, we began presenting to staff and parents our year-long certification plan through Common Sense Media's digital citizenship curriculum. In a staff meeting I discussed how this process would build awareness and help keep our students safe in a digital world. I addressed concerns about how to make the time for this and led the staff in a discussion about our common concerns regarding digital citizenship in our school.
Click the image to the right to view the staff presentation on Digital Citizenship
November 2016
November was my month to present to each grade level their lessons in Digital Citizenship. Each grade has an implementation log with links to resources and five lessons to complete by May/June 2017. I posted each grade level's implementation log on our school's Google Classroom for easy reference. We explored the linked resources and discussed best ways to implement during the year. Each lesson has a linked PearDeck, which my teachers were pleased to see. Click the image to the right to view one of the implementation logs.
Impact & Reflection
Planning for this coaching standard and presenting it to my school staff and parents has been one of my favorite projects as a digital learning coach. The main reason for this is the discussion about tech integration that follows when we talk about how to keep our students safe on the internet. It allows me to address the real issue at hand: "What is the purpose of integrating technology in school?" During our staff and grade level meetings, our discussions cover both the positive and negative aspects of the internet. Together we came to the conclusion that integration must happen, of course, because our students need to be prepared to keep up with the evolving technology that they will use to communicate, collaborate, and create. The breakthrough for me as a coach was in the success of how the teachers accepted the implementation of Digital Citizenship in their individual classes.