Digital Citizenship

 What is it? Digital citizenship means we use technology safely, responsibly, and appropriately. 

This is a topic that is important to teach students, especially with the growing amount of technology use by students of all ages.

Common Sense Media is one resource that has great information and lesson plans for teachers to use for teaching digital citizenship. You have to create an account, but it is free for educators. I really appreciate that this source has resources in Spanish!

To help your students learn more about how to evaluate the sources they find, I like to use this website and the CRAAP test to teach students about the reliability of their sources.

Since writing this post there have been changes to what was formerly used to evaluate sources. The CRAAP test is no longer proving to be unreliable as a way to test for reliability of sources. If you'd like to read more about this, please see my colleague's blog post here. Here is a video she shared about using the technique known as lateral reading that may be a better way to identify valid sources.