Digital Citizenship
Promoting The Everyday Awareness
of Digital Citizenship
of Digital Citizenship
Beginning in Fall 2021, all students are required to complete the Student Internet Safety Lessons that have been provided to each teacher. The five lessons that are delivered cover the themes of Digital Community, Digital Footprint, Privacy & Security, Media Choices and Cyberbullying.
Austin ISD uses Common Sense Media resources frequently to teach and reinforce a strong student understanding around digital citizenship. Caregivers will find a wealth of information to support appropriate use of technology at home.
Austin ISD is a recognized No Place For Hate school district. The district encourages staff and families to support anti-bullying efforts and provides anti-bullying resources for the community to use to make our schools a safer place for all students.
Austin ISD Internet Safety Lessons
For Fall 2022, the Student Online Safety Learning Experiences can be found in the following courses: Reading (Kinder-2nd), Homeroom (3rd-5th) and Advisory Courses (6th-12th)
There are five online safety lessons in this course. The content comes largely from vetted Common Sense Media Digital Citizenship lessons. The course has all lesson content provided in English and Spanish, including recorded voice audio support for each page.
Online Safety lessons are already distributed to teachers within their Blueprint courses, with all lessons contained in a single module. Each lesson has a Learning Goal, Key Vocabulary, directed lesson content and a reflection piece at the end.
The unpublished teacher notes page contains suggestions for lesson differentiation, scaffolding for Blended Learning and there is a student-facing page offering images and videos supporting frequently asked questions about using digital tools with students.
A digital reflection document, the Internet Safety Learning Journal, is provided in this module as a BLEND assignment that uses the Google Assignment external submission tool. That means that once the teacher publishes the assignment and a student opens the BLEND assignment, all students in the course will receive their own copy of the Learning Journal and teachers are already added as an editor to each student's document. Teachers can check the progress on each student's Learning Journal at any time, without students having to submit their BLEND assignment.
