6-8 Digital Citizenship Curriculum
Digital Citizenship 6-8
In order for students to be safe, courteous and effectuve consumers and creators of digital resources, the need to be good digital citizens.
Digital Citizenship encompasses a full range of skills and behaviors from online safety to resource literacy. All of those skills fall under the three main actions performed by every good digital citizen:
- Respect
- Connect
- Protect
The lessons below will help students to develop skills in all of the areas that make them literate, contributing and careful digital citizens.
Digital Citizenship Lessons
Be a Creator As Well As A Consumer - Learn the difference between a Creator and a Consumer, and how you can use Google Sites as a first step toward becoming a Creator.
T.H.I.N.K. Like a Digital Citizen - Learn the T.H.I.N.K. model of productive posting, and what it takes to be a good digital citizen!
IB Learner Attributes and Digital Citizenship
At the Middle School level, Digital Citizenship instruction will be framed through the lens of the IB Learner Profile and the IB Approaches to Learning Skills, helping students meet these goals while teaching them the skills they need to use technology in a smart, safe way.
Approaches to Learning Skills
Learner Profile Attributes
