This week, third grade students were introduced to Phase 2 (Digital Content) of the Digital Citizenship course. Digital Content refers to the trillions of websites on the internet and the three things students need to understand to be safe:   IT’S NOT ALL GOOD, IT’S NOT ALL TRUE, and IT’S NOT ALL FREE.  Students explored It’s Not All Good and It’s Not All True.  Students were given the following scenario:  [You are at home on your computer on a game site.  Out of nowhere, an image pops up that makes you feel uncomfortable.]  Students voted with their feet to indicate what course of action they should take.  Corner 1 – Click on it to try to get it to close or disappear  Corner 2 – Ignore it and hope it goes away  Corner 3 – Leave the computer and go get an adult.  Once in their chosen corner, students had 3 minutes to discuss why they chose their course of action and to choose a spokesperson for their group.  When time was up, the spokesperson explained why they chose that course of action.  

Students then watched the Garfield video on Fact vs Opinion at https://learninglab.org/life_skills/fact_or_opinion. Students then analyzed the following website to determine if it was factual:

http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/.

Fourth and fifth grade students  reviewed the three pillars of Digital Citizenship (contact, content, and conduct) by taking the Web License Test 2015-2016 in Moodle.