Digital Citizenship Week
November 6th - 10th, 2023
We will celebrate digital citizenship school-wide with a variety of activities!
*Teachers will get a jeans day for each activity they facilitate. Teachers who participate 3+ days will get a Sonic drink and will be entered to win Amazon gift cards, ed tech items, etc.
*There are prizes available for students who participate in the lunchtime activities and the creative contest!*
Getting the Word Out
Please include something about Digital Citizenship Week (& include the bit.ly/asesdigcitweek link) in your Mondagram / weekly newsletter [EC & Lower School] or in a post on Google Classroom or email to your students [Middle & Upper School]. You can include the activities that will be done, the Creative Contest information (see below), etc.
Creative Contest
Students will design a physical or digital bookmark promoting good digital citizenship (suggested tool for digital design is Canva). Winning entries will be distributed next Digital Citizenship Week and the top entries will receive a prize.
Daily Activities
*Daily activities should take about 5 minutes or less.*
*They will be completed during Morning Meeting or at any convenient time during the day in Early Childhood and Lower School and during the allotted subject in Middle or Upper School (MS & US teachers will facilitate the allotted activity type in each of their class periods at some point during the week - e.g. showing a dig cit video in each of your 6 sections).*
Movie Monday / MS & US: Arts, Language & Tech Classes
Show a video about digital citizenship! Choose a video or two from the collections linked below (most are under 5 minutes).
-Early Childhood - 1st Grade Videos
Text Tuesday / MS & US: English Classes
The other kind of text! Read a book or article about digital citizenship. Younger grades can do a class read aloud; older students can choose their own article from the list then discuss what they read and learned.
-Picture Book Read Alouds for EC - 5th
-Dig Cit books on Epic! for EC - 5th
(*Dig Cit books are also available in the LS library)
-Articles for Middle & Upper School
Win It Wednesday / MS & US: Science Classes
Students will design a physical or digital bookmark promoting good digital citizenship (suggested tool for digital design is Canva). Winning entries will be distributed next Digital Citizenship Week and the top entries will receive a prize.
Or, EC and Lower School students could also complete one of the coloring pages or printable activities. Middle and Upper School students could also complete a module on Social Media Test Drive.
Think It Through Thursday / MS & US: History Classes
Have a class discussion about a digital citizenship topic using the Everyday Dig Cit program. You could also use a question as a writing prompt.
Fun Friday / MS & US: Math Classes
Have your students play a digital citizenship game! Here are fun games that allow students to practice their digital citizenship and internet safety skills. Kahoot also has digital citizenship games (Common Sense Education & other dig cit Kahoots). For young students, you can play as a whole class on the screen.
Additional Suggested In-Class Activities for English & History
Writing Prompt: Write a response to a discussion prompt from the Everyday Dig Cit program. Or, watch a video or read an article (linked on Monday & Tuesday above) about dig cit, then summarize what you learned / whether you agree or disagree / etc.
News & Media Literacy:
-Teach Common Sense Education Media Literacy lesson (9th - 12th)
-Watch a BrainPOP video about media literacy or a Flocabulary video about fake news
-Teach a Checkology news literacy lesson
-Have students investigate the Truth or Fiction? website
-Discuss / explore Media Literacy and the Election
Union Lunch Activities
Students will have the opportunity to participate in activities Monday, Wednesday & Friday in the Union at lunch.