Thing 11 of 11.5

I liked the part of the Cool CatTeacher's blog where he focuses on the fact that digital citizenship isn't a one time lesson but should be taught by every teacher. I think that having a digital citizenship lesson would be a good beginning of the year activity that every teacher does during that first two week get to know you period. Lots of things are reviewed and/or taught during this period and teachers can gauge the level of knowledge of these thing through the initial lesson and expand on it if needed.

Since I work with elementary students, the areas that I would focus on during a digital citizenship are as follows:

1. Safety and Cyberbullying - don't share personal information & cyber manners
2. Don't believe everything you read on the Internet - ways to determine if the site is valid
3. Copyright rules - users can't copy everything out there, sometimes it is stealing