RESOURCES
RESOURCES
Embedded Files
These resources are organized by the ISTE Standards for Students, Digital Citizenship Strand
Digital Identity and Reputation
2a Students cultivate and manage their digital identity and reputation and are aware of the permanence of their actions in the digital world.Using and Sharing Intellectual Property
2c Students demonstrate an understanding of and respect for the rights and obligations of using and sharing intellectual property.
Positive, Safe, Legal and Ethical Behaviour
2b Students engage in positive, safe, legal and ethical behavior when using technology, including social interactions online or when using networked devices.2d Students manage their personal data to maintain digital privacy and security and are aware of data-collection technology used to track their navigation online.
Digital Identity and Reputation
Digital Identity and Reputation
2a Students cultivate and manage their digital identity and reputation and are aware of the permanence of their actions in the digital world.
Digital Citizenship Resources for Students: ISTE Standard 2a
Available on your TDSB Virtual Library
Grade: K to 2Language: English, French & SpanishFormat: Video and Lesson PlanPublisher: Common Sense MediaDescription: Students learn that the information they put online leaves a digital footprint or “trail.” This trail can be big or small, helpful or hurtful, depending on how they manage it. Grade: 2 to 6Language: English & FrenchFormat: Lesson PackagePublisher: WE CharityDescription: Free-of-charge, online workshops for youth cover topics including cyberbullying, protecting your online reputation, security and privacy, and using technology responsibly.Grades 4 to 6Language: English Format: Lesson PackagePublisher: WE CharityDescrition: The resource provides teachers with a high-quality educational resource that is based on provincial curriculum expectations. It is designed to help students develop an understanding of the causes and effects of cyberbullying and to learn how to keep themselves and others safe online using the principles of digital citizenship.
Grade: 7 to 12Language: EnglishFormat: Video and Lesson PlanPublisher: Common Sense MediaDescription: Students learn to think carefully before posting and sharing and discover the Digital Footprint we leave behind online. Grade: 6 to 9Language: English & FrenchFormat: Lesson PackagePublisher: WE CharityFree-of-charge, online workshops for youth cover topics including cyberbullying, protecting your online reputation, security and privacy, and using technology responsibly.Grade: 7 to 8Language: EnglishFormat: Lesson PackagePublisher: GoogleDescription: Students will be empowered with the information to make safe and appropriate decisions online bylearning the importance of online citizenship, how to manage and create a positive reputation online and how to always explore the Internet and other digital communication in a safe manner.
Positive, Safe, Legal and Ethical Behaviour
Positive, Safe, Legal and Ethical Behaviour
2b Students engage in positive, safe, legal and ethical behavior when using technology, including social interactions online or when using networked devices.
Digital Citizenship Resources for Students: ISTE Standard 2b
Available on your TDSB Virtual Library
Introduction to Cyberbullying: Avatars and Identity
Grade: 4 to 6Language: English & FrenchFormat: Lesson PlanPublisher: Media SmartsDescription: Students are provided with opportunities to explore this concept and discuss the importance of using empathy and common sense when talking to others online.Digital Friendships: How do you keep online friendships safe?
Grade: 5Language: EnglishFormat: Lesson PlanPublisher: Common Sense MediaDescription: Kids make friends everywhere they go -- including online. But are all of these friendships the same? How can kids start online friendships and also learn ways to stay safe? Help your students understand both the benefits and the risks of online-only friendships.Grade: ALLLanguage: English & SpanishFormat: Lesson PlansPublisher: NetSmartzsDescription: Lesson plans are related to the online Internet safety activities and easy to implement with few extra materials. Printable handouts are included.Grade: 7 to 8Language: English & FrenchFormat: Lesson PlanPublisher: Media SmartsDescription: Students consider how we come to hold values and how they affect our behaviour, especially online. Grades 9 to 12Language: English Format: Lesson PackagePublisher: WE Charity and TELUSThe resource provides teachers with a high-quality educational resource that is based on provincial curriculum expectations. It is designed to help students develop an understanding of the causes and effects of cyberbullying and to learn how to keep themselves and others safe online using the principles of digital citizenship.
Using and Sharing Intellectual Property
Using and Sharing Intellectual Property
2c Students demonstrate an understanding of and respect for the rights and obligations of using and sharing intellectual property.
Digital Citizenship Resources for Students: ISTE Standard 2c
Available on your TDSB Virtual Library
Grade: 1 to 2Language: EnglishFormat: Lesson PlanPublisher: Common Sense MediaDescription: An introduction to giving proper credit to authors/sources for younger studentsGrade: K to 2Language: EnglishFormat: Lesson PlanPublisher: Common Sense MediaDescription: Students learn the basics – title, name, and date – for crediting creative work. Students discuss the importance of citing work, as well as recognizing that they should give themselves proper credit so that others can attribute their work when used.
Grade: 3 to 5Language: EnglishFormat: Lesson PlanPublisher: Common Sense MediaDescription: Students learn that although the Internet makes it very easy, copying the work of others and presenting it as one’s own is called plagiarism. They also learn about circumstances in which it is permissible to use the work of others.
Grade: 3 to 5Language: EnglishFormat: Lesson PlanPublisher: Common Sense MediaDescription: Students learn that although the Internet makes it very easy, copying the work of others and presenting it as one’s own is called plagiarism. They also learn about circumstances in which it is permissible to use the work of others.
Grade: 6 to 8Language: EnglishFormat: Video and Lesson PlanPublisher: Common Sense MediaDescription: Students are introduced to copyright, fair use, and the rights they have as creators.Grade: 6 to 8Language: EnglishFormat: Lesson PlanPublisher: Common Sense MediaDescription: Students explore the concept of fair use, apply it to case studies, and create an original work of fair use. Students learn how to judge whether something is protected by fair use by using the "Four Points of Fair Use Student Handout". Grade: 9 to 12Language: EnglishFormat: Lesson PlanPublisher: Common Sense MediaDescription: Students reflect on the differences between taking inspiration from the creative work of others and appropriating that work without permission.
Digital Privacy and Security
Digital Privacy and Security
2d Students manage their personal data to maintain digital privacy and security and are aware of data-collection technology used to track their navigation online.
Digital Citizenship Resources for Students: ISTE Standard 2d
Available on your TDSB Virtual Library
Private and Personal Information
Grade: 4Language: EnglishFormat: Lesson PlanPublisher: Common Sense MediaDescription: Students learn the difference between what's personal and what's best left private.Grade: 3 to 5Language: English & FrenchFormat: Game & Comic BookPublisher: Canadian Centre for Child Protection Description: Interactive series gives eight to 10-year-olds an opportunity to have some fun exploring what it means to be safe while playing games online.
The First Adventure of the Three CyberPigs
Grade: 3 to 5Language: English & FrenchFormat: GamePublisher: Media SmartsDescription: The purpose of the game is to teach kids how to spot online marketing strategies, protect their personal information and avoid online predators.Grade: 4 to 6Language: English & FrenchFormat: GamePublisher: Media SmartsDescription: Interactive game that teaches children and pre-teens the concept of personal information and its economic value, and introduces them to ways to manage and protect their personal information on the websites and apps they enjoy.
Social Smarts: privacy, the Internet and you
Grade: 5 to 8Language: EnglishFormat: Graphic NovelPublisher: Privacy Commissioner of CanadaDescription: A graphic novel to help young Canadians to better understand and navigate privacy issues in the online world.Grade: 6 to 8Language: English & FrenchFormat: Lesson PlanPublisher: Media SmartsDescription: Students learn key principles relating to online privacy in the context of digital literacy and related subject areas, in particular that online information: is permanent; can be copied; can be seen by unintended, and potentially much larger audiences; and is searchable.Grade: 6 to 8Language: English & SpanishFormat: Resource PagePublisher: NetSmartzDescription: A resource page on helping children protect their privacy online by learning what’s OK and not OK for children to share online.
Digital Citizenship resources for Educators
A variety of consolidated resources brought to you by the TDSB Professional Library and Library Learning Resources.
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A community of Digital Lead Learners and TDSB educators interested in exploring the ISTE Standards and Digital Citizenship. #TDSBdigcit
National Film Board of Canada
National Film Board of Canada
National Film Board of Canada Interactives
The NFB has developed two interactive experiences that explore aspects of digital citizenship that are appropriate for grade 7-12 learners.
Do Not Track is a documentary series that explores how information about you is collected and used. Each episode explores a different aspect of how the modern web is increasingly a space where our movements, our speech and our identities are recorded and tracked. From our mobile phones to social networks, personalized advertising to big data, each episode has a different focus, a different voice and a different look.
Universe Within: Digital Lives in the Global Highrise takes us inside the hearts, minds and computers of vertical citizens around the world: from Guangzhou to Mumbai to New York and beyond. As cities reach for the sky, the highrise building becomes a metaphor for the urban planet. Trapped in our apartments, how do we engage with our loved ones over the worldwide web? How has it rewired our brains and our relationships? Drawing on documentary, fiction, photography, film, data art and webGL, Universe Within confronts the viewer with provocative questions about ethics, emotions and empathy in our digital, vertical environments.
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