DC: Building an Online Classroom Community
Come learn about those 21st skills that are a part of Digital Citizenship and Information Literacy that help support our students navigate the digital world around them every day in a way that will keep them safe and prepared. Come away with strategies, tools, lessons, and resources to help make Digital Citizenship a regular part of your class and promote it in your school culture.
This discussion guide will help you work through the information that is presented in the presentation above and have discussions with your team.
Use this to think about the online communities that you belong to and what you get from them, and how you might change them for the better.
Have students list those things that are the most important to them when dealing with the digital space. This can help inform classroom policy.
Know the rules for dealing with social media in your classroom, and not just for the students. How are you going to use social media in your classroom?
Plan for your online classroom with this document, including all information that you need to build a positive online community.
Explore more supports for your Online Community
A Pathway that can lead you through the different areas of Digital Citizenship and Information Literacy with resources, materials, and lesson ideas to help develop your understanding and skills as well as help facilitate those same things in those your work with or support, either in a classroom or office setting. This is a more in depth exploration of the areas that we are covering today.
In an era of fake news, click bait, and information overload, how are students to sift through the endless stream of noise to become informed citizens? In this session we will discuss some of the strategies that you can use with your students to help them develop these skills for the information age and help guide them to becoming those informed citizens.
All Students and Teachers have access to some of the most trusted and powerful research tools on the internet. With the CA State Library Research Project, students and teachers have access to free resources that and tailored to the classroom teachers to help make sure our students have safe, secure, reliable, and up to date resources and content that support their curiosity and our content.
Resources for Information Literacy
Use Internet Hoaxes to teach good research. Here are some fun ones to test your students
Materials and resources for Research in the Digital Age.
Claims, Evidence, Reasoning
Understand the Claim Evidence Research method that can help your students no matter the subject matter.
A short quiz to test if you students know the difference between a Fact and an Opinion.
Free resources to help support positive collaboration in the classroom and teach questioning and evaluation.