How Can Your Students Become Digital Citizen Superheros? Start this Week!

October 15-19, 2018 is Digital Citizenship Week!

This week is a good time for teachers to reflect upon their teaching of digital citizenship and how the topic affect them and their students. 

Check out this page and video from Common Sense Media, as well as the week's official webpage from the California Department of Education. Their Digital Citizenship Week Plan contains some useful resources and ideas.

Have some time to listen to a podcast during your morning or afternoon commute? Check out Vicki Davis's 10-Minute Teacher podcast. In this episode, she discusses 5 ways to teach Digital Citizenship, as well as her "9 Key P's":



Along with Common Sense Media's curriculum, both BrainPOP and Teaching Tolerance also have great lesson resources on the subject.

But why should we devote so much time and effort into teaching students about Digital Citizenship? Check out these eye-opening statistics from Common Sense Media:

 

Among 0- to 8-year-olds, 98% live in a household with a mobile device (2017).

The average 0- to 8-year-old spends 48 minutes of time on a mobile device. This is up from 15 minutes in 2013 and 5 minutes in 2011 (2017).

70% of teens (13-17 year-olds) report using social media many times a day (2018).

74% of teens believe that tech companies manipulate users to spend more time on social media platforms (2018).

85% of parents say that monitoring their children's media use is important for their children's safety (2016).

41% of parents say that they check their children's devices and social media accounts "always" or "most of the time" (2016).

44% of kids (age 10 to 18) feel that they can tell fake news stories from real ones. 31% of kids who shared a news story online in the last 6 months say they shared a news story that they later found out was wrong or inaccurate (2017).

Happy Teaching!