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Connecticut Model Digital Citizenship for Grade 3
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Common Sense Education Digital Citizenship Curriculum VideoEquitable and Inclusive Curriculum  The CSDE believes in providing a set of conditions where learners are repositioned at the center of curricula planning and design. Curricula, from a culturally responsive perspective, require intentional planning for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the development of units and implementation of lessons. It is critical to develop a learning environment that is relevant to and reflective of students’ social, cultural, and linguistic experiences to effectively connect their culturally and community-based knowledge to the class. Begin by connecting what is known about students’ cognitive and interdisciplinary diversity to the learning of the unit. Opposed to starting instructional planning with gaps in students’ knowledge, plan from an asset-based perspective by starting from students’ strengths. In doing so, curricula’s implementation will be grounded in instruction that engages, motivates, and supports the intellectual capacity of all students.Empowering Thoughtful Digital Citizens:Digital citizenship is a critical skill that empowers students to navigate the complex digital landscape with wisdom, empathy, and responsibility. We strongly believe in a whole-school approach to digital citizenship that engages educators, school leaders, and families in supporting students' technological growth. Our model curriculum is designed to equip students from kindergarten through high school with essential skills to safely and thoughtfully engage with technology, fostering digital literacy, critical thinking, and social-emotional learning. By creating intentional learning spaces that encourage in-person connections, teach impulse control, and develop media literacy, we aim to prepare students to appreciate the nuanced nature of technology use, protect their well-being, and cultivate healthy digital habits that will serve them throughout their lives.Course Description:  In this third-grade course, students explore digital citizenship through the lens of community responsibility and online identity. Students learn to create strong, memorable passwords, evaluate their digital presence, and understand how photo and video alterations can influence perceptions. The course emphasizes building positive online communities, developing empathy, and responding effectively to cyberbullying. Students gain critical thinking skills to navigate their expanding digital world responsibly.Upon completion of Grade 3, students should have a deeper understanding of:Examine both in-person and online responsibilities.Describe the Rings of Responsibility as a way to think about how our behavior affects ourselves and others.Identify examples of online responsibilities to others.Define the term "password" and describe a password's purpose.Understand why a strong password is important.Practice creating a memorable and strong password.Consider how posting selfies or other images will lead others to make assumptions about them.Reflect on the most important parts of their unique identity.Identify ways they can post online to best reflect who they are.Define what a community is, both in person and online.Explain how having norms helps people in a community achieve their goals.Create and pledge to adhere to shared norms for being in an online community.Understand that it's important to think about the words we use, because everyone interprets things differently.Identify ways to respond to mean words online, using S-T-O-P.Decide what kinds of statements are OK to say online and which are not.Recognize that photos and videos can be altered digitally.Identify different reasons why someone might alter a photo or video.Analyze altered photos and videos to try to determine why.Aligned Core Resources:Core resources is a local control decision.  Ensuring alignment of resources to the standards is critical for success. The CSDE has identified Common Sense Education Digital Citizenship Curriculum  as a highly aligned core curriculum after a rigorous review process. Transferable Skills Addressed in the Course: Media Balance & Well-Being Privacy & Security Digital Footprint & Identity Relationships & Communication Cyberbullying, Digital Drama & Hate Speech News & Media Literacy Family Engagement Opportunities:Family engagement is fundamental to our digital citizenship efforts, rooted in a whole community approach that recognizes families as essential partners in supporting students' technological development. We are committed to providing family engagement resources, and opportunities to support healthy digital habits, establish open communication about technology use, and model responsible digital behavior. Recognizing that parents and caregivers have diverse concerns about media, technology, and devices, we aim to be a supportive resource in guiding their children's digital experiences. By fostering ongoing communication and partnership, we create a dynamic support system that addresses challenges across school and home environments, ultimately strengthening students' digital citizenship skills.

Subject:
Education
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
CT State Department of Education
Provider Set:
CSDE - Public
Date Added:
12/18/2024
Connecticut Model Digital Citizenship for Grade 4
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Common Sense Education Digital Citizenship Curriculum VideoEquitable and Inclusive Curriculum  The CSDE believes in providing a set of conditions where learners are repositioned at the center of curricula planning and design. Curricula, from a culturally responsive perspective, require intentional planning for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the development of units and implementation of lessons. It is critical to develop a learning environment that is relevant to and reflective of students’ social, cultural, and linguistic experiences to effectively connect their culturally and community-based knowledge to the class. Begin by connecting what is known about students’ cognitive and interdisciplinary diversity to the learning of the unit. Opposed to starting instructional planning with gaps in students’ knowledge, plan from an asset-based perspective by starting from students’ strengths. In doing so, curricula’s implementation will be grounded in instruction that engages, motivates, and supports the intellectual capacity of all students.Empowering Thoughtful Digital Citizens:Digital citizenship is a critical skill that empowers students to navigate the complex digital landscape with wisdom, empathy, and responsibility. We strongly believe in a whole-school approach to digital citizenship that engages educators, school leaders, and families in supporting students' technological growth. Our model curriculum is designed to equip students from kindergarten through high school with essential skills to safely and thoughtfully engage with technology, fostering digital literacy, critical thinking, and social-emotional learning. By creating intentional learning spaces that encourage in-person connections, teach impulse control, and develop media literacy, we aim to prepare students to appreciate the nuanced nature of technology use, protect their well-being, and cultivate healthy digital habits that will serve them throughout their lives.Course Description:  In this fourth-grade course, students learn to make informed decisions about their digital lives. The curriculum covers healthy media choices, safe online sharing, and responsible gaming practices. Students explore how digital footprints impact both personal and collective online reputations, develop strategies to address cyberbullying, and learn about digital image rights and usage. This course empowers students to be thoughtful digital citizens who contribute positively to online communities.Upon completion of Grade 4, students should have a deeper understanding of:Learn the "What? When? How Much?" framework for describing their media choices.Use this framework and their emotional responses to evaluate how healthy different types of media choices are.Begin to develop their own definition of a healthy media balance.Identify the reasons why people share information about themselves online.Explain the difference between private and personal information.Explain why it is risky to share private information online.Define the term "digital footprint" and identify the online activities that contribute to it.Identify ways they are -- and are not -- in control of their digital footprint.Understand what responsibilities they have for the digital footprints of themselves and others.Define "social interaction" and give an example.Describe the positives and negatives of social interaction in online games.Create an online video game cover that includes guidelines for positive social interaction.Reflect on the characteristics that make someone an upstanding digital citizen.Recognize what cyberbullying is.Show ways to be an upstander by creating a digital citizenship superhero comic strip.Define "copyright" and explain how it applies to creative work.Describe their rights and responsibilities as creators.Apply copyright principles to real-life scenarios.Aligned Core Resources:Core resources is a local control decision.  Ensuring alignment of resources to the standards is critical for success. The CSDE has identified Common Sense Education Digital Citizenship Curriculum  as a highly aligned core curriculum after a rigorous review process. Transferable Skills Addressed in the Course: Media Balance & Well-Being Privacy & Security Digital Footprint & Identity Relationships & Communication Cyberbullying, Digital Drama & Hate Speech News & Media Literacy Family Engagement Opportunities:Family engagement is fundamental to our digital citizenship efforts, rooted in a whole community approach that recognizes families as essential partners in supporting students' technological development. We are committed to providing family engagement resources, and opportunities to support healthy digital habits, establish open communication about technology use, and model responsible digital behavior. Recognizing that parents and caregivers have diverse concerns about media, technology, and devices, we aim to be a supportive resource in guiding their children's digital experiences. By fostering ongoing communication and partnership, we create a dynamic support system that addresses challenges across school and home environments, ultimately strengthening students' digital citizenship skills.

Subject:
Education
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
CT State Department of Education
Date Added:
12/18/2024
Connecticut Model Digital Citizenship for Grade 7
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Common Sense Education Digital Citizenship Curriculum VideoEquitable and Inclusive Curriculum  The CSDE believes in providing a set of conditions where learners are repositioned at the center of curricula planning and design. Curricula, from a culturally responsive perspective, require intentional planning for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the development of units and implementation of lessons. It is critical to develop a learning environment that is relevant to and reflective of students’ social, cultural, and linguistic experiences to effectively connect their culturally and community-based knowledge to the class. Begin by connecting what is known about students’ cognitive and interdisciplinary diversity to the learning of the unit. Opposed to starting instructional planning with gaps in students’ knowledge, plan from an asset-based perspective by starting from students’ strengths. In doing so, curricula’s implementation will be grounded in instruction that engages, motivates, and supports the intellectual capacity of all students.Empowering Thoughtful Digital Citizens:Digital citizenship is a critical skill that empowers students to navigate the complex digital landscape with wisdom, empathy, and responsibility. We strongly believe in a whole-school approach to digital citizenship that engages educators, school leaders, and families in supporting students' technological growth. Our model curriculum is designed to equip students from kindergarten through high school with essential skills to safely and thoughtfully engage with technology, fostering digital literacy, critical thinking, and social-emotional learning. By creating intentional learning spaces that encourage in-person connections, teach impulse control, and develop media literacy, we aim to prepare students to appreciate the nuanced nature of technology use, protect their well-being, and cultivate healthy digital habits that will serve them throughout their lives.Course Description:  In this seventh-grade course, students learn advanced digital citizenship skills focusing on media balance and online wellbeing. The curriculum covers digital footprint management, data privacy, and responsible social media use. Students explore cyberbullying from multiple perspectives, developing empathy and upstander behaviors. The course also introduces copyright concepts and fair use principles, empowering students to be ethical creators and consumers of digital content.Upon completion of Grade 7, students should have a deeper understanding of:Make an inventory of their media choices and how those choices make them feel.Brainstorm personal strategies for balancing media use.Create personal guidelines for promoting healthy media balance.Explain why information about them and their behaviors is valuable to companies.Analyze how certain types of data are used by companies.Learn three strategies to limit individual data collection by companies.Define the term "digital footprint" and explain how it can affect their online privacy.Analyze how different parts of their digital footprint can lead others to draw conclusions -- both positive and negative -- about who they are.Use the Take a Stand thinking routine to examine a dilemma about digital footprints.Identify the role of social media in their lives.Reflect on the positive and negative effects social media use has on their relationships.Recognize "red flag feelings" when using social media and use the Feelings & Options thinking routine to consider ways to handle them.Consider the different perspectives of those involved in a cyberbullying incident.Identify ways to be an upstander or ally to someone being bullied.Problem-solve potential challenges to responding to cyberbullying.Define the terms "copyright," "public domain," and "fair use."Identify the purpose of the Four Factors of Fair Use.Apply fair use to real-world examples, making a case for or against.Aligned Core Resources:Core resources is a local control decision.  Ensuring alignment of resources to the standards is critical for success. The CSDE has identified Common Sense Education Digital Citizenship Curriculum  as a highly aligned core curriculum after a rigorous review process. Transferable Skills Addressed in the Course: Media Balance & Well-Being Privacy & Security Digital Footprint & Identity Relationships & Communication Cyberbullying, Digital Drama & Hate Speech News & Media Literacy Family Engagement Opportunities:Family engagement is fundamental to our digital citizenship efforts, rooted in a whole community approach that recognizes families as essential partners in supporting students' technological development. We are committed to providing family engagement resources, and opportunities to support healthy digital habits, establish open communication about technology use, and model responsible digital behavior. Recognizing that parents and caregivers have diverse concerns about media, technology, and devices, we aim to be a supportive resource in guiding their children's digital experiences. By fostering ongoing communication and partnership, we create a dynamic support system that addresses challenges across school and home environments, ultimately strengthening students' digital citizenship skills.

Subject:
Education
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
CT State Department of Education
Provider Set:
CSDE - Public
Date Added:
12/23/2024
Connecticut Model Digital Citizenship for Grade Twelve
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Common Sense Education Digital Citizenship Curriculum VideoEquitable and Inclusive Curriculum  The CSDE believes in providing a set of conditions where learners are repositioned at the center of curricula planning and design. Curricula, from a culturally responsive perspective, require intentional planning for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the development of units and implementation of lessons. It is critical to develop a learning environment that is relevant to and reflective of students’ social, cultural, and linguistic experiences to effectively connect their culturally and community-based knowledge to the class. Begin by connecting what is known about students’ cognitive and interdisciplinary diversity to the learning of the unit. Opposed to starting instructional planning with gaps in students’ knowledge, plan from an asset-based perspective by starting from students’ strengths. In doing so, curricula’s implementation will be grounded in instruction that engages, motivates, and supports the intellectual capacity of all students.Empowering Thoughtful Digital Citizens:Digital citizenship is a critical skill that empowers students to navigate the complex digital landscape with wisdom, empathy, and responsibility. We strongly believe in a whole-school approach to digital citizenship that engages educators, school leaders, and families in supporting students' technological growth. Our model curriculum is designed to equip students from kindergarten through high school with essential skills to safely and thoughtfully engage with technology, fostering digital literacy, critical thinking, and social-emotional learning. By creating intentional learning spaces that encourage in-person connections, teach impulse control, and develop media literacy, we aim to prepare students to appreciate the nuanced nature of technology use, protect their well-being, and cultivate healthy digital habits that will serve them throughout their lives.Course Description:  In this twelfth-grade course, students examine advanced digital citizenship concepts and their societal impact. The curriculum explores the relationship between technology and physical wellness, data privacy in governance, and leveraging digital platforms for positive change. Students analyze online political discourse, hate speech policies, and social media echo chambers. The course emphasizes developing critical thinking skills for navigating complex digital issues while promoting responsible online advocacy.Upon completion of Grade 12, students should have a deeper understanding of:Identify research trends related to the health impact of screen time.Reflect on the nature of their own screen time and how it compares to that of parents and teens generally.Use the Digital Habits Checkup routine to create a personal challenge to change a media habit.Identify the pros and cons of schools having access to students' social media.Describe the concerns related to government access to social media and cellphone data, including those related to free speech and privacy.Choose a position for or against government access to social media and cellphone data, and support that position with reasons and examples.Explain what it means to find your purpose and why it is beneficial.Consider different ways that people have used their digital footprint to make a positive impact on the world and whether you would do something similar.Reflect on what your own purpose might be, including a problem you want to solve and how you might go about solving it.Define civil discourse and identify why it can be challenging on the internet.Analyze resources to identify the causes and effects of uncivil online discourse.Learn strategies for civil discourse and apply them to a scenario involving uncivil discourse.Reflect on whether hate speech is considered free speech.Identify the reasons for and against regulating online hate speech.Use the Take a Stand thinking routine to consider the potential consequences of online hate speech.Define "filter bubble" and explain how it occurs.Reflect on the limitations and drawbacks that filter bubbles cause.Identify strategies for escaping their own filter bubbles.Aligned Core Resources:Core resources is a local control decision.  Ensuring alignment of resources to the standards is critical for success. The CSDE has identified Common Sense Education Digital Citizenship Curriculum  as a highly aligned core curriculum after a rigorous review process. Transferable Skills Addressed in the Course: Media Balance & Well-Being Privacy & Security Digital Footprint & Identity Relationships & Communication Cyberbullying, Digital Drama & Hate Speech News & Media Literacy Family Engagement Opportunities:Family engagement is fundamental to our digital citizenship efforts, rooted in a whole community approach that recognizes families as essential partners in supporting students' technological development. We are committed to providing family engagement resources, and opportunities to support healthy digital habits, establish open communication about technology use, and model responsible digital behavior. Recognizing that parents and caregivers have diverse concerns about media, technology, and devices, we aim to be a supportive resource in guiding their children's digital experiences. By fostering ongoing communication and partnership, we create a dynamic support system that addresses challenges across school and home environments, ultimately strengthening students' digital citizenship skills.

Subject:
Education
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
CT State Department of Education
Provider Set:
CSDE - Public
Date Added:
12/23/2024