What Is Digital Citizenship?

Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Subject Area

Arts Education

Grade(s)

2, 3, 4, 5

Overview

Students will read about what digital citizenship is and why it's important.  They will learn that digital citizenship includes digital literacy, internet etiquette, online security, and ethics.  They will have a class discussion and list five reasons digital citizenship is important.  

Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 2 - Media Arts

AE17.MED.2.18

Interact appropriately with media arts tools and environments, practicing safety, rules and fairness.

UP:AE17.MED.2.18

Vocabulary

Community/ Culture
  • self
  • family
  • neighborhood
  • classroom
  • school
  • city
Safety
  • personal space
  • personal information
  • trusted person
Appropriate
  • purpose
  • permission
  • context
  • audience
Fairness
  • ownership
  • credit

Essential Questions

EU: Media artworks and ideas are better understood and produced by relating them to their purposes, values, and various contexts.
EQ: How does media arts relate to its various contexts, purposes, and values? How does investigating these relationships inform and deepen the media artist's understanding and work?

Skills Examples

  • With help, combine two art forms to describe a happy memory of listening to or watching a media arts production into a draft of a media arts product.
  • Share with the class a memory of hearing/ seeing a media arts production (i.e., concert, movie, etc.) and include the meaning and message of the event.
  • Through teacher-led discussion and by responding to questions, describe how media arts productions experienced everyday are part of the school community.
  • Use software and online sources with permission from an adult. Give credit to anyone's work that is used in media arts products, sound or images.

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 11: Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.
Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 3 - Media Arts

AE17.MED.3.18

Examine and interact appropriately with media arts tools and environments, applying safety, rules, and fairness.

UP:AE17.MED.3.18

Vocabulary

Community/ Culture
  • personal
  • external
  • resources
  • values
Synthesize
  • combine
Media
  • commercial
  • advertising
Behavior
  • choices
  • actions
Safety
  • personal space
  • personal information
  • trusted person
Appropriate
  • purpose
  • permission

Essential Questions

EU: Media artworks and ideas are better understood and produced by relating them to their purposes, values, and various contexts.
EQ: How does media arts relate to its various contexts, purposes, and values? How does investigating these relationships inform and deepen the media artist's understanding and work?

Skills Examples

  • With help, combine two art forms to describe a happy memory of listening to or watching a media arts production along with research about the event into a draft of a media arts product.
  • Share with the class a favorite media arts production (i.e., YouTube video, etc.), and include the meaning and message of the event.
  • Through teacher-led discussion and by responding to questions, describe media arts productions experienced everyday are part of the school community and society.
  • Use software and online applications with adult permission. Cite sources in any media arts products.

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 11: Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.
Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 4 - Media Arts

AE17.MED.4.18

Examine and interact appropriately with media arts tools and environments, considering ethics, rules, and fairness.

UP:AE17.MED.4.18

Vocabulary

Examine
  • question
Culture
  • personal
  • interests
  • external
  • trends
Interact
  • observe
  • question
Ethics
  • fair
  • law
  • right

Essential Questions

EU: Media artworks and ideas are better understood and produced by relating them to their purposes, values, and various contexts.
EQ: How does media arts relate to its various contexts, purposes, and values? How does investigating these relationships inform and deepen the media artist's understanding and work?

Skills Examples

  • Combine two art forms to describe a memory of an news event along with research about the event into media arts product and show effect on culture.
  • Share with the class a favorite media arts production (i.e., YouTube video, etc.), and include the meaning and message of the event along with its effect on culture at large, specifically through changing daily language.
  • Through teacher-led discussion and by responding to questions, describe media arts productions experienced everyday are part of the school community and society.
  • Write a letter to the owner of a sound or image and ask permission to use it in a media arts production.

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 11: Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.
Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 5 - Media Arts

AE17.MED.5.18

Examine, discuss, and interact appropriately with media arts tools and environments, considering ethics, rules and media literacy.

UP:AE17.MED.5.18

Vocabulary

Resources
  • internal
  • external
Culture
  • society
  • values
Research
  • question
  • compare information
  • cause and effect
Ethics
  • fair
  • prudent
  • law

Essential Questions

EU: Media artworks and ideas are better understood and produced by relating them to their purposes, values, and various contexts.
EQ: How does media arts relate to its various contexts, purposes, and values? How does investigating these relationships inform and deepen the media artist's understanding and work?

Skills Examples

  • Combine two art forms to describe a memory of a news event along with research about the event into media arts product and show effect on culture.
  • Share with the class a favorite media arts production (i.e., YouTube video, etc.), and include the meaning and message of the event along with its effect on culture at large, specifically through changing daily language and behavior.
  • Through teacher-led discussion and by responding to questions, describe how media arts productions experienced everyday are part of the school community and affect family life.
  • Cite sources in any media arts products using APA Style and forecast the possible interpretations and reactions to media arts products.

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 11: Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.

CR Resource Type

Learning Activity

Resource Provider

Wonderopolis

License Type

CUSTOM
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