Middle School Digital Citizenship

Social Media TestDrive is a web-based educational program that offers modules about key digital citizenship topics, such as managing privacy settings, self-presentation and identity online, responding to or preventing cyberbullying, and analyzing news and information students could encounter through social media.

Each TestDrive module teaches a set of digital citizenship skills and allows students to practice and reflect on what they've learned using a simulated social media experience within a safe and protected platform.

Kids in the U.S. must be 13 or older to sign up for a social media account, but they often use the platforms at even younger ages. TestDrive is designed for upper elementary school and middle school students age 9 to 12, who are likely to join or participate in social media sites and apps in the near future.

What is "Social Media Test Drive"

"Social Media Test Drive" teachers guide and directions

Digital Life 101 (Media Balance & Well-Being). Students learn all the ways we consume, create, and share digital media in our daily lives, then reflect on its omnipresence.

Teen Voices: Presenting Yourself Online (Digital Footprint & Identity). Students hear from teens about the benefits and drawbacks of presenting themselves differently (or even anonymously) to others online, and consider what it means to "be yourself" in digital spaces.

Teen Voices: Who You're Talking To Online (Relationships & Communication). Students hear what other teens have to say about meeting and talking to known and unknown people online, think about the types of information they're sharing about themselves, and consider strategies to keep their online friendships safe and positive.

Digital Footprint (Digital Footprint & Identity). Students learn to think carefully before posting and sharing information by comparing their digital footprints to things such as a permanent marker, a copy machine, or a jumbotron at a stadium.

Teen Voices: Friendships and Social Media (Relationships & Communication). Students hear what other teens have to say about using social media to connect with friends, consider the complications and distractions that can happen, and think critically about how social media affects their own relationships.

Teen Voices: The Pressure to Be Connected (Media Balance & Well-Being). Students hear what other teens have to say about how digital media has them feeling "hooked," then think critically about their own digital media use.

Teen Voices: Oversharing and Your Digital Footprint (Digital Footprint & Identity). Students hear what other teens have to say about sharing on social media, then think critically about the decisions they're making any time they post something online about themselves or others.