Digital Citizenship & Safety

Purpose and Goal

Norman Public Schools is committed to maintaining a safe, healthy, ethical, and digitally aware environment for students and staff. Federal CIPA certification requires that schools certify that their internet safety policies have been updated to provide for educating minors about appropriate online behavior, including interacting with other individuals on social networking websites and in chat rooms, and cyberbullying awareness and response. Norman Public Schools is using the digital citizenship curriculum from CommonSense Education for Kindergarten through 12th grade to meet these goals.

Elementary

Secondary

Resources for Educators

Create a free account on the Common Sense Education website. Use your NPS Google account to sign in to the website.
The complete lesson plans are on the Common Sense Education website. Each lesson plan is linked in the Teacher Notes in each activity. The Common Sense Education lessons have slides, handouts, discussion prompts and more. Most lessons will take 30-45 minutes to complete.
Pace the lessons appropriately for your students. Lessons can be spread out over several days if needed.
Remember that all lessons and activities should be completed by the final day of the fall semester.
It is the responsibility of the classroom teacher to ensure all new students complete the Digital Citizenship lessons, even if those lessons have already been covered in class.

Upon completion of all lessons, teachers will record student completion of Digital Safety & Citizenship lessons in their grade book. Directions on how to do this can be found here.
If you have any questions about the Elementary Digital Safety and Citizenship curriculum, please contact Dr. Stacy Schrank, LIbrary Information Specialist at sschrank@normanps.org.

Importing Grade Level Curriculum into Canvas:

Open your Advisory Course and select Modules - you should now see the Digital Citizenship Curriculum you just imported into your course.

Click on the Publish checkmark next to the main header for the module and this should now activate the publish for all the sections within the module. NOTE: Some of the aspects of the course are for Teacher View Only so these you will not want to publish for your students. Simply uncheck these items.

You will also want to unpublish all the lessons for the upcoming months until you are ready for the student to have these available to them. The schedule is as follows:
Lesson 1 and 2 completed by the end of first quarter.
Lesson 3 and 4 completed by the end of second quarter
Lesson 5 and 6 completed by the end of third quarter

Documentation:

Once all students have completed all six Digital Citizenship quizzes, the grades must be entered into Infinite Campus.
It is the responsibility of the Overtime/Homeroom/Den/Advisory teacher to ensure that all students have complete all six Digital Citizenship quizzes AND enter they are complete into Infinite Campus.
There will be six grades in Canvas for Digital Citizenship, but there will only be one grade in Infinite Campus.
It is the responsibility of the Overtime/Homeroom/Den/Advisory teacher to ensure any new students complete the Digital Citizenship modules, including those already covered in class.
How to enter Digital Citizenship grades into Infinite Campus

If you have any questions about the Secondary Digital Safety and Citizenship curriculum, please contact Amanda Kordeliski, Director of Libraries and Instructional Technology, at akordelis2@normanps.org.

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