Digital Citizenship Week
The California Department of Education (CDE) in collaboration with Common Sense Education will celebrate CDE Digital Citizenship Week October 18-22, 2021.Digital Citizenship
Every day, teachers lead students in the ever changing digital world. As this happens, it is important to help students take ownership of their online and offline lives. This also includes partnering with parents to empower parents and help them make smart choices with their students.
The goal is to identify resources that can help students learn 21st century skills such as digital citizenship, information literacy, and safe and legal Internet use (for example, those surrounding plagiarism and pirating music and movies).
Deliver Digital Citizenship Lessons
The Common Sense Education organization offers free, research-based K-12 Digital Citizenship Curriculum
with lesson plans to teach students how to:
- Manage their online information and keep it secure.
- Protect their own online privacy while respecting others.
- Explore, examine, and protect their online reputations.
- Reflect on their responsibilities and rights as creators online.
- Identify, find, evaluate, and use information effectively.
- Deal with a cyberbullying situation appropriately.
- Stay safe online through positive connections.
The comprehensive digital citizenship lessons are aligned to the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Standards for Students , and include resources to share with families, can be delivered offline or in a blended format, and provide the option for student assessments. Additionally, Common Sense Media has invested in designing professional development resources to support educators with the implementation of the materials.
Meet Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) Requirements
Common Sense Education offers CIPA Toolkits for Administrators and Teachers. What is CIPA? The Children’s Internet Protection Act is a federal law enacted by Congress to address concerns about access to offensive content over the Internet on school and library computers. CIPA imposes certain types of requirements on any school or library that receives funding for Internet access or internal connections from the E-rate program. Since July 2012, schools subject to CIPA are required by the Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act to provide for educating minors about appropriate online behavior, including interacting with other individuals on social networking Web sites and in chat rooms, and cyberbullying awareness and response. The suggested lessons for California’s Digital Citizenship Week also provide suitable selections to meet the CIPA requirement for the 2017–2018 school year.
California Department of Education Digital Citizenship Week
The CDE, in collaboration with Common Sense Education and the California State legislature, will celebrate Digital Citizenship Week
October 18-22, 2021. This will continue ongoing efforts to teach students how to make safe, smart, and ethical decisions in the digital world.
This years’ topics include:
- Digital Citizenship Planning
- Social and Emotional Learning
- Digital Restorative Justice
- Media Well-Being and Balance