curriculum

**How can we link digital citizenship to our curriculum?**

==== The ISTE National Technology Standards for Students give us guidelines for technology skills our students need. We can incorporate these skills into our curriculum in various ways, and they fit quite naturally into many areas. ISTE has also established a NETS wiki so that teachers can share ideas on implementing these standards. Also, this wiki on digital citizenship has grade by grade information. ====

Focus on the NETS-S #5 Digital Citizenship. Investigate the links in your grade level. Watch one of the videos on implementing the standards. With your grade level group, decide which one of the four parts of the standard would best fit your curriculum. Discuss what a lesson might look like for your students, including possible sources found using the above wikis or the following SAMPLING of digital citizenship resources:

Common Sense Media

Cyber Tree House

Cyber Wise

Digi Teen

Kids Smart

Just 4 Kids (from the Attorney General's Office)

Safe Kids

Kids Rex (a kid safe search engine)

KidsClick (a directory for kids - managed by school librarians)