Duncanville Digital Citizenship
Duncanville Digital Citizenship
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Welcome to the Duncanville Digital Citizenship Pages.
Our goal is to ensure students' online lives receive the same guidance and attention as their offline lives. The resources and lessons provided equip students with the critical thinking skills needed to make responsible, ethical decisions when facing digital dilemmas.
Duncanville ISD supports digital education using Common Sense Media Digital Citizenship Curriculum.
"The Technology that has so dramatically changed the world outside our schools is now changing the learning and teaching environment within them."
-National Education Technology Plan for the U.S. Department of Education
Duncanville ISD Strategic Goal: 1 DISD Students will possess the necessary skills to be productive citizens of a global society.
SB11 and The State Board of EducationDistricts are required to incorporate instruction in digital citizenship into the district's curriculum, including information regarding the potential criminal consequences of cyberbullying.
IN THE NEWS
IN THE NEWS
Additional Resources
Additional Resources
- Be Internet Awesome Curriculum: https://beinternetawesome.withgoogle.com/en_us/educators
- For Teenage Students: Digital Bytes https://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators/digital-bytes
- Connecting Families https://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators/connecting-families
- Stop, Think, Connect https://www.stopthinkconnect.org/
- Netsmartz for Educators http://www.netsmartz.org/Educators
- Common Sense Media https://www.commonsensemedia.org/
- Suicide and Crisis Center of North Texas 214-828-1000. You can also text "CONNECT" to 741741
Federal Law: CIPA – Children’s Internet Protection Act (2001) Enacted by Congress in 2000 to address concerns about children’s access to obscene or harmful content over the Internet. As of July 2012, CIPA requirements were revised to require that any school district applying for E-Rate funding* must show how they are actively teaching all students Internet safety and digital citizenship. The topics that must be covered are: Appropriate online behavior (building a positive digital footprint; respecting intellectual property), safety and privacy, and cyberbullying awareness and response
Federal Law: Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) requires schools to educate students about appropriate online behavior.
Federal Law: Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) requires schools to educate students about appropriate online behavior.
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