How to Take Digital Citizenship Schoolwide?

When schools put devices such as Chromebooks and tablets into students’ hands, they also must teach students how to use the technology safely and appropriately. But students shouldn’t learn these critical lessons only in standalone workshops or assemblies.

For good digital citizenship to become a lifelong habit for students, educators must embed these skills into their daily instruction and model them in their own behavior. They must also involve parents in this process and begin the education early on in a child’s experience. Kids are coming to school having already had some contact with technology, says Mike Ribble, IT director for Manhattan-Ogden Unified School District. Whether they have a knowledge of how to use it appropriately is another question.

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