Friday, September 29, 2017

Digital Citizenship with Google's Be Internet Awesome

For the past two weeks, 4th and 5th graders at Sibley and Lakeview have been working on Digital Citizenship presentations for their classmates. We used Google's Be Internet Awesome curriculum as a guide for our presentations. 

The four main concepts taught in this curriculum are:

It's Cool to be Kind (Cyberbullying)
Secure your Secrets (Strong Passwords)
Share with Care (Think Before You Share)
Don't Fall for Fake (Phishing)

These concepts teach students to be:

I was so impressed by the group presentations, skits, posters, interactive games, comic strips and songs!

Click HERE to watch a skit recorded in Seesaw.
When students were done presenting, they explored Interland, the online game that supports the Be Internet Awesome digital citizenship curriculum. The students really enjoyed playing through the Interland games on their Chromebooks!

All 'Be Internet Awesome' and Interland images courtesy of Google.