Digital Citizenship Glossary

"If children are going to be successful users of the Internet it is vital that they learn the 'language' of the Internet..." L. Trimble

Note to teachers:

As students learn the specialized vocabulary of Digital Citizenship, they are empowered to grasp the concepts and the principals behind the words. We especially recognize the importance of developing the academic vocabulary of our English Language Learners (ELLs / ELs).

Here's one idea to help students strengthen their DC vocabulary:

• Collaborative Digital Citizens A-Z Glossary Project - The A-Z Glossary Project is a collaborative student-generated activity that helps students "own" the DC vocabulary by co-creating a PowerPoint slideshow (or VoiceThread or Gdoc Presentation) from A-Z. For a fun sampler of a collaboratively created A-Z Glossary, check out Room 505 A-Z Illustrated Digital Citizenship Glossary.

We'd like to give a shout out for students in Andrea Cascia's classes at San Diego USD's Crawford Invention Design Educational Academy in San Diego, California, for translating our glossary into Arabic (by Nasreldin Abdeliziz) and Vietnamese (by Thao Ho and Truc Nguyen). And to Lucia Hinojosa, a high school student at the American School Foundation in Monterrey, Mexico, for translating the glossary into Spanish. Thank you!!

A warm invitation to be CONTRIBUTORS!

We invite students, teachers, and community members around the world to contribute to this page, both with translations of current terminology into other languages and with additions of new terms to this very rapidly changing topic! MP3s are the recommended format for sending us audio files.

In addition, we hope that some of you and your students will be inspired to create flashcards of these words using a web-based flashcard program such as Quizlet or StudyStack, and then share them with us on the wiki!