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1. From Digital Students
to Digital Citizens –
Digital Passport
November 6, 2012

2. Our Missionmission
Our
We are dedicated to improving
the lives of kids and families by
providing the trustworthy
information, education, and
independent voice they need to
thrive in a world of media and
technology.
Our Vision
Our vision
We envision a world in which
every kid knows how to make
safe, responsible, and respectful
choices to harness the learning
potential of digital media in a
24/7 connected world.

3. 1. Educate
2. Investigate
3. Advocate
4. Rate/Review

4. Today’s goals
• Quick overview of the digital landscape
• Review Common Sense’s FREE Digital
Passport

5. Digital Literacy + Citizenship Skills
Digital Literacy
Digital Citizenship Safety & Security
A digital citizen knows how to harness the power
of technology safely, respectfully, and responsibly.
Brain image: http://pediatricneurology.wordpress.com

6. Mobile Interactive
Scale
Scale
Anonymous Anonymous Replicable
Replicable
Persistent Searchable So that means
kids are leaving
digital footprints

7. Digital Literacy and Citizenship
A whole-community approach
Image: alxa.ru

8. www.commonsensemedia.org/educators

9. Balanced tone
Research-based
Flexible
Standards-aligned

10. Curriculum Categories
• Relationships & • Digital Footprint &
Communication Reputation
• Privacy & Security • Self-image & Identity
Internet Safety • Information Literacy
• Cyberbullying • Creative Credit &
Copyright

11. Scope and Sequence
• 65 lessons, differentiated by grade band
• Lower elementary (K-2)
• Upper elementary (3-5)
• Middle (6-8)
• High school (9-12)
• 3 units per grade level (HS has 4)
• 5 lessons per unit
• Units are cross-curricular
• Lessons spiral unit by unit

12. What’s Digital Passport?

13. Digital Passport
Web-based student-guided interactive
learning experience – mini-games
Teaches kids the rules of the road
before they go online or mobile
Designed for 3rd-5th grade students
Spotlights six key topics:
Privacy, Security, Cyberbullying, Cell
Phone
Use, Copyright/Plagiarism, Search
Kids earn “badges” for successful
module completion; passport for all 6
Robust and easy-to-use reporting tools
provide data and assessment
FREE for schools

14. 2012 Digital Passport in the LMC
• Trials and tribulations of implementing Digital
Passport in the PS 199 Library Media Center
across Grade 5
• Ideas and suggestions for introducing digital
citizenship instruction and curriculum in your
school library
• How to work the program with high tech, low
tech, even NO tech!

15. Set the scene
• PTA president approached our principal to
pilot the program
• Principal decided the LMC would be the best
setting for the trial
• Immediate support from administration and
parent body

16. Who will support your efforts?
• Administration, parents, your young tech
savvy colleagues, computer and technology
teachers
AND
Never underestimate the POWER of…

18. School librarians meet the demand to
deliver technology instruction to
and
provide digital citizenship education
for all students!

19. First steps first…
• Explore and experience the curriculum
• Play the games
• Enter students’ info to set up classes
• Secure computers and Internet connection
(use whatever you can get your hands on –
in our case, a combo of old Dell desktops
plus funky laptops)

20. We are experiencing technical
difficulties, please stand by…
• Learn to love to troubleshoot, take the tech
as far as you can and your students will
figure out how to take it from there!
• Monitor and assess range of abilities and
reassure students that we have thinking
brains/machines and devices cause us
frustrating problems to solve. Constantly
work to lower student frustration/anxiety.

21. Digital Passport provides us with…
• Digital Citizenship Curriculum
• Lesson plans and materials
to teach and instruct our students
• Informational videos to inform
• Interactive online games to reinforce learning
• Digital tools to assess, record and report our
findings and student data

22. Completed games earn badges
Completed games earn badges

23. Completed badges = certificate
Completed badges = certificate

24. Let’s go to Digital Passport to:
• Register
• Explore Tools for Educators
• Set up classes/Register students
• Overview of “Rings of Responsibility”
• Play “Twalkers”

25. Important resources for your work…

26. NYCDOE and Office of Library Services
“Citizenship in the Digital Age: Sample Lesson Plans
for Grades 1-12”
Go to:
http://schools.nyc.gov/NR/rdonlyres/3CA0188D-66A2-
490C-9E90-
1EFCADA92F8C/0/Citizenshipinthedigitalage.pdf

27. Technology Standards
ISTE, International Society for Technology Education
Go to:
https://www.iste.org/

28. Recent studies:
New York Times article: “For Better and for
Worse, Technology Use Alters Learning
Styles, Teachers Say”
Go to:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/education/t
echnology-is-changing-how-students-learn-
teachers-say.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

29. Publications:
Lisa Nielsen and Willyn Webb

30. Online info: Mike Ribble
Nine Elements of Digital Citizenship
About Mike Ribble
Go to:
http://digitalcitizenship.net/Contact_Us.html
Nine Elements of Digital Citizenship
Go to:
http://digitalcitizenship.net/Nine_Elements.html

32. For more information, contact:
Tali at thorowitz@commonsense.org
or Louisa at
lsullivan@commonsense.org or
212-315-2674 or Lisa Taylor at
ltaylor12@schools.nyc.gov