From Northside ISD- Digital Citizenship Example

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https://sites.google.com/a/nisd.net/21stcenturylearning/home

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Digital Citizenship— 

Katie Arp, librarian at Raba Elementary School, was able to teach her students various digital citizenship skills by creating a blog for them to discuss the books they were reading from the annual selection of Texas recognized books for younger kids (Bluebonnet Collection).

 

 To hook the students on the idea of this project Katie announced that at the end of the school year she would be hosting a Bluebonnet Bash. To earn an invitation to the party and the right to vote for their favorite Bluebonnet book, students had to read and blog about 5 Bluebonnet books.  When she introduced the blog in September she emphasized a few important points about blogging and being a good digital citizen:

• Never use your last name because anyone in the world can see the blog

• Write thoughtful comments. Comments such as "It was cool" or "I liked it" do not count towards your 5 books

• Respond to other people's comments by saying "I agree with..." or "I also thought..."

• It's okay to disagree as long as you do it respectfully with comments like "I see what you mean, but..." or "I disagree because..."

• The more you respond to each other's comments, the more fun blogging will be!

Overall she had just over One hundred 3rd, 4th, & 5th graders blogging throughout the year, and 50 of them received invitations to the Bluebonnet Bash.  The kids were excited about talking to each other online, and Katie was excited to see them discussing great books!

 

The Bluebonnet Book Club blog can be found at http://learningspace.nisd.net/bluebonnetbooks/   

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ISTE Page on Digital Citizenship with Links to Resources

https://istetennews.wixsite.com/isteten/october-2019

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