Digital Citizenship

What is Digital Citizenship?

Digital citizenship is a 21st century skill students need so they can learn, communicate and collaborate safely and responsibly in a digital environment.

Common Sense Education is the K-12 curriculum that Bend-La Pine Schools uses for digital citizenship lessons.

These Lessons are Amazing!

  1. Common Sense Digital Citizenship lessons have ready-to-go slides that are easy to present, short engaging videos for students, and customizable resources for educators.


  1. The lessons range from 30 minutes (K–2) to 45 minutes (grades 3–8) to 50 minutes (grades 9–12). Grades 2–12 have six lessons per year, and K–1 have three lessons per year.


  1. Lessons are available in Spanish! All student materials and parent resources are also available in Spanish.


  1. Each lesson includes family engagement resources. All family materials are available in Spanish, and select materials are available in Arabic, Chinese, Farsi, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, Urdu, and Vietnamese.


  1. Common Sense Digital Citizenship Lessons align with many education standards: Common Core (ELA), ISTE, CASEL, and AASL.

Where can I find the lessons and resources?

How can I implement these Digital Citizenship lessons?

What's the research behind this curriculum?

"Backed by Research. Inspired by Real Life. Designed and developed in partnership with Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education -- and guided by research with thousands of educators -- each digital citizenship lesson takes on real challenges and digital dilemmas that students face today, giving them the skills they need to succeed as digital learners, leaders, and citizens tomorrow. Read about the research behind our curriculum." - Common Sense Education

Can my students play the Digital Passport games?

Digital Passport is not available as a mobile app, and it cannot be played on school iPads. Currently, only laptops or desktop computers will support the Digital Passport games.