Tool #10: Digital Citizenship

Digital Citizenship is truly at the base of everything that a 21st century teacher will do.  Teaching and modeling this throughout the year, every year is imperative.  I believe that the beginning of the year time should be set up to teach Digital Citizenship and as the video below suggests, setting up a social contract with students.
Brainpop has a great video to show students.  It nicely explains what digital citizenship is, why it's important, and etiquette/netiquette behaviors to follow.  However, digital citizenship goes beyond just following the golden rule.  Teachers must also model how to find trusted sites when researching.  Teachers will need to show students how to analyze several sites for key information and not just trusting one source. Plagiarizer is another area to address as well as siting sources appropriately.  Just because it's on the internet does not mean it's yours to copy and use as your own.  Atomic Learning will be a go to source to aid in all aspects of digital citizenship.

Taking that last step to tool 11...