Digital Citizenship Week is 17-21 October. Here's how to get students from Kindergarten right up to Year 12 involved.
Every third week in October, schools around the world celebrate Digital Citizenship Week. This initiative was originally created by Common Sense Education, and we're excited to be teaming up with them to provide resources and lesson plans to help you make the most of the week.
Digital Citizenship Week 2022
Each year teachers use this opportunity to guide and support their learners to use technology safely and ethically.
This year Common Sense Education are celebrating 10 years of Digital Citizenship Week, and Book Creator is an officially recognized ally in the effort to create a positive culture around how students use media and technology.
You can access all of Common Sense Education's resources for this year at
commonsense.org/digital-citizenship-week
Lesson extensions with Book Creator
The Common Sense Education resources cover multiple activities each day (see, for example, this daily activity plan for Elementary educators). For K-2 and grades 3-5 there is a 15-minute activity using two of the digital citizenship activity books below. You can read and remix these templates and weave them into the wider Common Sense Education lesson plans for the week.
We launched these activity books in partnership with Common Sense Education in June last year. You can use them with ages 5-11 to introduce these new concepts (and the Digital Citizens who guide you through the activities).
Learn more about using these books
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Templates that you can remix
Taking the themes in the Digital Citizenship Week curriculum, we worked with Hillsborough County Public School’s Technology Training Team (Florida) to create a set of extension activities that their district is going to run as a competition. They have kindly made these templates available for you to use too, if you wish. These templates will work district-wide with all ages.
Once you have a Book Creator account, you can add these books below to your library with one click! Just hit the Remix button and choose which library you want to add it to. Then, when you’ve invited students to your library, they can simply make a copy of the book and complete the activities.
BONUS: Run a contest!
With Hillsborough County, we also developed an implementation book for rolling out these activities with your teachers. If you'd like to get a competition going in your district, fill out this form and we can provide swag, PD along with this easy implementation guide.
Looking for even more ideas?
We worked with Dr. Monica Burns to write a book on Creative Digital Citizenship Activities with Book Creator. In this book we look at resources to learn more about digital citizenship, spotlight classroom stories, and inspire you and your student to get creative as you learn about digital citizenship.
This book was loosely based on the wider Common Sense Education Digital Citizenship curriculum, and is themed around the six concepts of:
Media balance and well-being- Digital footprint and identity
- Privacy and security
- News and media literacy
- Relationships and communication
- Cyberbullying, digital drama and hate speech.
Lainey joined the Book Creator team in 2020 as VP of Partnerships, before becoming CEO in 2023. A former educator with 15 years of sales and marketing experience, she enjoys mountain biking, dancing, reading and family time.
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