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=Welcome to our Digital Citizenship Wiki!=

Why Digital Citizenship? What happened to "//Internet Safety//?"
[|Wes Fryer], Oklahoma educator and blogger says it so well that I thought I'd just share his [|thoughts on the topic]:

// **Rather than simply tell students "don't talk to strangers" and "don't reveal personal information" online, educators need to be discussing (as the ProTechT teachers are with their students) issues surrounding the ethical uses of digital technologies and the impacts those uses can have not only at a personal level, but also on larger scales.** //

**On this wiki,**
we hope to collaborate to improve our internet safety, or digital citizenship program. We invite Klein librarians to join and add to this wiki as you see fit. Remember, there's no way to "mess it up!" If you make a mistake or want to change something you've added, simply edit the page again, or, to revert to a previous version, click on the History tab!

Click on a page (at left) to see curriculum for each elementary grade. **Middle school and high school librarians, please add appropriate pages for your students too!** Since you don't necessarily teach the curriculum by grade level, but rather through various classes, I didn't know how to best organize your pages. :) jcc

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=Professional Reading and Resources=

This article specifically outlines a program of Digital Citizenship that Adelman created for use with a group of middle school students who were to take part in an online discussion group with her. There are some great, practical ideas for activities to do with students to get them to think about safe online habits. Word of warning though--this is an aging article, and some of the statistics at the beginning are no longer accepted. Case in point: the 1 in 5 youths being sexually victimized on the Internet is no longer accepted by some researchers. Nancy Willard has current information about that statistic on her web site. 2 activities that looked useful: //Watch the Traffic Lights// and //Proceed with Caution.// jcc
 * Adelman, Halee. "Teaching online safety." __Voices From the Middle__ 11.3 (2004): 17-22.**

Very useful list of web sites similar to Netsmartz, which might be helpful as we work to make our Digital Citizenship program more comprehensive. jcc
 * Joseph, Linda C.. "Keeping safe in cyberspace." __Multimedia & Internet@Schools__ 14.1 (2007): 17-21. __EbscoHost__. Klein ISD. 6 Dec. 2008.**

Current research, rich and usable source of information about safety and Digital Citizenship. A must-have book, imo. jcc
 * Willard, Nancy E.. __Cyber-Safe Kids, Cyber-Savvy Teens: Helping Young People Learn To Use the Internet Safely and Responsibly__. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2007.**

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