Students will understand the meaning of the term citizen and digital citizen by viewing the definitions in wikipedia. Students will understand the concept of being a digital citizen by recognizing that the use of technology can make our citizenship global. They will understand the temptation to view their identity in the global community as invisible, making their words and actions untraceable and anonymous and therefore, not significant. Students will understand that just like a bully is a person who is not showing responsibility in being a good citizen, a cyberbully is a person who does not obey the rules of conduct when using technology. Students will log in to Etherpad to create a list of qualities that define a good citizen, a social contract of sorts. Students will create a poster of a wordle created from the document to display on the wall in the computer lab to remind them of the rules of conduct for good citizenship in the real world and in the cyber world. Finally, students will review and discuss the Student User Agreement they signed at the beginning of the school year.
Cyberbullying Glossary by Mandy Murray scanned from the article “Game Over” in ATPE News, Fall 2009, Volume 30, Number 1
