Digital Citizenship Week- Shared Responsibility
This year’s focus is on Building a Culture of Shared Responsibility. Each day during the week, schools and parents/caregivers can take simple steps to get in sync and partner together to educate and support students with digital life. A common message from trusted adults has a big impact on kids! We hope Digital Citizenship Week will spark some educationally valuable conversations that can be promoted and supported all year long, by both parents and teaching staff.
Consider the following:
- What can your family commit to doing at home with your children to best support your children’s school in providing a safe, positive online learning environment for everyone?
- How does using technology at home with your child provide opportunities for you to teach them about digital citizenship and for your child to demonstrate positive digital citizenship?
"The past decade has seen an exponential increase in digital tools and opportunities, which carry the need for students to master a new set of life skills for behaving safely, ethically and responsibly online. Students are much more likely to understand good digital citizenship – the norms of appropriate, responsible technology use – when teachers and parents/trusted adults model it and explicitly teach and promote it on a regular basis." - Helen Crompton, Old Dominion University
Parents Take Action:
Regularly ask your child to log in and show you the digital tools they use at school and at home.
- How are your household expectations for technology use working? It's a great time to review and revise them with your child. Device Contracts, Media Agreements and Tip Sheets are available to support the conversation. (Translations included)
- Parents can actively model and explicitly teach their children good digital citizenship practices. One of the most effective ways for parents/caregivers to support their children is to actively help them understand, interpret, and respond appropriately to the content, contact, and conduct they experience online together.
Did you know...?
Android Users: If your family uses Android devices, Google’s Family Link can help you set certain digital ground rules,manage apps, keep an eye on screen time and remotely lock your child’s device.
Apple Users: If your family uses Apple devices, Apple Families provides tools that let parents know, and feel good about, what kids are doing with their devices.
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