The following are links to articles. Clicking on the title in blue will direct link to the article. There are also informational books, fiction books, and DVDs in the school library collection for additional resources.
Digital Citizenship
VALENZA, J. (2010, November 19). Building Digital Citizens @MICDS and beyond. School Library Journal. Retrieved from http://blogs.slj.com/neverendingsearch/2010/11/19/digital-citizenship-micds-and-beyond/
This article chronicles the process of one school's move to implement a Digital Citizen Curriculum. Watch the entertaining video on how connected students believe they are verses the reality. Hertz, M. B. (2011, October 12). Teaching Digital Citizenship in the Elementary Classroom. Retrieved June 13, 2016, from Edutopia website: http://www.edutopia.org/blog/digital-citizenship-mary-beth-hertz
Ribble, M., & Bailey, G. (2007). Digital Citizenship in Schools. Washington DC: International
Society for Education (ISTE). This bestselling ISTE book is a must for all educators as they lead students through the digital environments that are a part of their everyday lives. Bearden, S. M. (2016). Digital Citizenship: A Community-Based Approach (Corwin Connected Educators Series). Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin a Sage Company.
Educators, parents, and students will discover how to protect privacy and leave positive online footprints, understand creative credits and copyright freedoms, foster responsible digital behaviors through safe and secure practices, and enlist all stakeholders to help ingrain digital citizenship into the school culture. |
Internet SafetyPersaud, N. (n.d.). How to Make the Internet Safer for Its Youngest Users. Retrieved June 15, 2016,
from Education World website: http://www.educationworld.com/a_news/ how-make-internet-safer-its-youngest-users-1320910481 This article's key points are to provide fresh ideas that initiate internet safety at a younger age. Collier, A. (2009). A Better Safety Net: It’s time to get smart about online safety.
Retrieved from http://www.slj.com/2009/11/ technology/a-better-safety-net-its-time-to-get-smart-about-online-safety/ Collier discusses the misguided fear of the internet and the importance of digital responsibility. Cindrich, S. (2009). A Smart Girl's Guide to the Internet: How to Connect with Friends, Find What You Need, And Stay Safe Online. Middleton, WI: Pleasant Company Publications. In this book, girls will learn how to be safe on the internet. They can even take quizzes and read tips that will show how to be smart and safe Internet users. Cornwall, P. (2011). Online etiquette and safety. Ann Arbor, MI: Cherry Lake Publishing.
Online etiquette, safety, acceptable use policies, privacy protection, and more can be found in this book. Ward - Johnson, C. (2003). World Wide Web: A Magic Mouse Guide (Magic Mouse Guides). Berkley
Heights, NJ: Enslow Elem. Mouse Guides teach students about Computers, E-mail, Internet, and World Wide Web in a story format with fun characters. Disney Educational Productions (Director). (2012). Wild About Safety® With Timon & Pumbaa: Safety
Smart® Online [Motion picture]. USA: Disney. Timon and Pumbaa show children how to be responsible digital citizens. Includes assessment tools. |
Internet SearchingClick on above button to search a key word and have access to a number of search engines to gather information.
"Among the choices presented: Scirus for searching scientific information; the Directory of Open Access Journals, for free scholarly content; JSTOR, the subscription consortium that gathers a huge database of scholarly content; the well-respected Internet Public Library; Google Scholar; the international collection of primary sources in the World Digital Library; BUBL, the long-lived British Dewey-organized directory of academic materials; Intute, another academic British directory maintained by subject specialists; the collection of publications from the Oxford Journals; Project Muse; PubMed, providing biomedical and health content from the National Institutes of Health; the media-rich library of the Internet Archive; the WolframAlpha computational search engine; and the vast collections of The Library of Congress..." (Valenza, 2010). Valenza, J. (2010). SearchCredible and a few other academic search tools [Blog post]. Retrieved from School Library Journal website: http://blogs.slj.com/neverendingsearch/2010/07/26/ searchcredible-and-a-few-other-academic-search-tools/ Common Sense Media. (2013). Smart Online Search Tips for Kids [Video file]. Retrieved from
https://youtu.be/pqGlhNDx7_k The above clip shows parents how to help their children search more effectively on the internet. Rabbat, S. (2010). Find your way online. Ann Arbor, MI: Cherry Lake Publishing.
This contains strategies for searching the web including narrowing search terms, using databases, and helpful checklists to ensure success. Cranford, C. (2015). Parenting in the Digital World: A Step-by-Step Guide to Internet Safety.
Independent: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. Step-by-step instructions on how to manage the privacy settings on different operating systems and applications. Ellerbee, L. (2001). Girl reporter bytes back! New York, NY: Harper Collins.
This news reporter uncovers the good and bad aspects of internet filtering. |