Digital+Citizenship

=Digital Citizenship Week=

This lesson plan involves a one week "crash course" designed for 9th graders in the Digital arts Academy English I class, as well as 10th graders in the new CS academy track for the 2012-2013 school year at Mount Diablo High School. Since these students will be saturated in online content, it is especially important to get them off on the right foot. These lessons are designed to be integrated with basic routines involving email, attachments, and document management. An extra day is allowed for padding: follow-up discussion of citation format can be started early if time allows.

__Day one: Educate Yourself__
 * Students will be walked through the district Acceptable Use Agreement and Internet safety handouts, with a focus on actual comprehension and understanding of the documents.
 * Students will log in and view an introductory PowerPoint or Jing lecture outlining the concepts involved in Digital citizenship that will be addressed in depth this week.:[]
 * Students will follow guided instructions to access or set up a new email account. As an "exit slip," students will write a paragraph in response to the lecture, listing at least three facts from or responses to the lecture, and email them to the teacher.

__Day two: Be Safe__
 * Students will take an online "pre-test" regarding internet safety, and discuss their responses with partners or in a small group.
 * Groups will then share our their answers and comments regarding each question. Class will discuss at large.
 * Students will watch a series of 2-3 online videos regarding safety issues including password management, personal information security, and viruses/worms.
 * Students will fill out a quiz similar to the pre-test, formatted for MS word, and send it to the teacher as an email attachment.

__Day three: Respect others__
 * Students will watch a presentation of good and bad examples of "netiquette" appropriate to email and chat forums.
 * Students will be coached through creation of accounts on a forum or back channel chat space shared by the class, having fun and spending a few minutes practicing and investigating the interface.
 * Students will navigate to a local site with links to three videos on cyberbullying, watch the videos privately on their own workstations, and react to the videos on the chat space, responding to certain prompts provided by the teacher and interacting with one another.
 * For homework, students will write a reaction in response to the videos and a prompt from the teacher regarding a time when they were bullied, bullied someone else, or witnessed bullying.

__Day four: Digital Rights__
 * Students will do a quick write or chat space post about where they get their music from and how they listen to it.
 * Students will watch a presentation regarding online piracy of music, video, and software, as well as academic plagiarism of ideas.
 * Students will break into groups and discuss/fill out a worksheet regarding plagiarism: [[file:Identifying Plagiarism.docx]]

The next week should be spent working on citation format, identification of reliable online information sources, and resources to help with development of bibliographies and works cited lists..