Digital Citizenship

Digital Citizenship is an important part of our District Library Media & Information Technology Literacy Curriculum.  We begin this curriculum in 2nd grade and continue through 5th grade. The concepts covered at each grade level are:

2nd Grade-Students recognize the rights, responsibilities, and opportunities for living, learning, and working in an interconnected digital world.

• Relate positive behavior offline to positive behavior online. 
• Understand the functions of usernames and passwords. 
• Recognize how personal information creates your identity. 
• Recognizes how information put online creates a digital footprint and can leave a “trail” online (digital footprint.

3rd Grade-Students recognize the rights, responsibilities, and opportunities for living, learning, and working in an interconnected digital world.

• Identify information that should not be shared online because it is private and personal.
• Relate positive behavior offline to positive behavior online.
• Utilize strong and secure passwords to protect private account information.
• Demonstrate an understanding of what personal data is, how to keep it private, and how it might be shared online. 
• Recognizes how information put online creates a digital footprint and can leave a “trail” online (digital footprint). 
• Seek trusted adult if a website asks for any personal information and begin to identify inappropriate content. 

Students will demonstrate an understanding of and respect for the rights and obligations of using and sharing intellectual property.

• Identify guidelines for acceptable use of Internet and other resources.
• Demonstrate respect in social situations.
• Understands basic concept of plagiarism. 
• Participate responsibly and respectfully in a digital community. 

4th Grade-Students recognize the rights, responsibilities, and opportunities for living, learning, and working in an interconnected digital world.

• Identify information that should not be shared online because it is private and personal. 
• Relate positive behavior offline to positive behavior online. 
• Recognize that photos can be altered digitally. 
• Utilize strong and secure passwords to protect private account information. 
• Recognizes how information put online creates a digital footprint and can leave a “trail” online (digital footprint). 
• Demonstrate an understanding of what personal data is, how to keep it private, and how it might be shared online. 
• Seek trusted adult if a website or message asks for any personal information and begin to identify inappropriate content. 
• Identify types of information and communication that can put a person at risk online. 

Students will demonstrate an understanding of and respect for the rights and obligations of using and sharing intellectual property.

• Understands basic concepts of plagiarism and copyright protections. 
• Participate responsibly and respectfully in a digital community. 
• Identify and create positive and constructive feedback. 
• Identify guidelines for acceptable use of Internet and other resources. 

5th Grade-Students recognize the rights, responsibilities, and opportunities for living, learning, and working in an interconnected digital world.

• Identify information that should not be shared online because it is private and personal.
• Identify the traits of a positive and negative online identity.
• Recognize that photos can be altered digitally and identify the pros and cons of alteration.
• Utilize strong and secure passwords to protect private account information.
• Demonstrate an understanding of what personal data is, how to keep it private, and how it might be shared online.
• Understands how information put online creates a digital footprint and can leave a “trail” online (digital footprint).
• Seek trusted adult if a website or message asks for any personal information and begin to identify inappropriate content.
• Identify types of information and communication that can put a person at risk online.

Students will demonstrate an understanding of and respect for the rights and obligations of using and sharing intellectual property.

• Recognize differences among content consumption, creation and remixing.
• Understands basic concepts of plagiarism and copyright protections.
• Participate responsibly and respectfully in a digital community.
• Identify and create positive and constructive feedback.
• Identify guidelines for acceptable use of Internet and other resources.