Digital Citizenship for Middle School Students

 
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    Funder Type

    Private Foundation

    IT Classification

    A - Primarily intended to fund technology

    Authority

    Digital Wish

    Summary

    Digital Wish believes that every child deserves a technology-rich education that will provide them with the skills necessary to excel in the global economy. Every day, Digital Wish develops new online tools and promotions that empower teachers and their supporters to get new technology for their classrooms and enhance learning for our children. With your help, we can provide the resources our schools need to thrive. The mission of Digital Wish is to use the internet to connect classrooms with their communities and allow teachers to solve their own technology shortfalls. Digital Wish develops new online tools and promotions that enable teachers to get new technology for classrooms and improve learning for their children. Digital wish hosts over 50 grant programs throughout the year. A full calendar can be seen on the program page. Currently active programs are the Mobile Beacon Grants Access for Education and the Digital Citizenship and Cyber Safety Grant. 

    Digital Wish is working with middle schools to address growing concerns about the misuse of the internet on laptops, tablets and personal smart phones. This new course was created to help build cyber safety awareness, respect for others and responsible use when using the internet and communicating electronically with others. 
     

    History of Funding

    Digital Wish has granted over 24,000 classroom technology wishes and delivered over $12 million in technology products to American classrooms. Details can be seen at http://www.digitalwish.com/dw/digitalwish/why_support_technology.

    Additional Information

    Grant Criteria: Write and submit a lesson plan that involves cyber safety, cyber bullying prevention and/or the responsible use of the internet at the middle school level. 

    For accountability, a competency test is included to determine what students have absorbed from this 5 unit course taught in 40 minute segments. The test has been used by some schools to issue an 'internet drivers license' to students for the privilege of having personal laptops, tablets smart phones on campus. 

    Curriculum Elements 
    • Netiquette: Kindness and impact awareness; ways of communication 
    • Democracy, Ethics, and the Law: Voice, citizenship, responsibility, privacy, commercial targeting, and government surveillance online 
    • Electronic Health: Caring for yourself; healthy and unhealthy uses of technology 
    • Cyber-safety: Protecting yourself and your computer; social dangers, bullying, viruses, and scams 
    • Media Literacy: Copyright & fair use, media literacy, marketing, stereotyping, effective searching 
    • Knowing Right from Wrong: What the wrong may lead to in the community and criminal justice system 
    • Each element is organized to be delivered as five 40 minutes classroom lecture-style lessons. The competency test can be administered following the course completion. 

    Contacts

    Digital Wish Staff

    Digital Wish Staff
    PO Box 1072
    Manchester Center, VT 05255
    (866) 344-7758
    (845) 402-7242
     

  • Eligibility Details

    Eligible applicants are middle school teachers.

    Deadline Details

    Applications are to be submitted by 7:10 p.m. on April 30, 2017.

    Award Details

    The Digital Citizenship curriculum pack includes: 
    • Edit ready worksheets 
    • Teacher Quick Lesson Guides 
    • Certificates of Success 
    • Classroom-ready Digital Presentations (Prezi presentations) 
    • Digital Citizenship Poster Contest resources 
    • Competency Test Questions 
    All materials are delivered electronically and include a school-wide unlimited use license. 
     

    Related Webcasts Use the links below to view the recorded playback of these webcasts


    • Funding Classroom Technology to Empower Students and Teachers - Sponsored by Panasonic - Playback Available
    • Maximizing Technology-friendly Workforce Development Grants - Sponsored by Panasonic - Playback Available
    • Funding Data-driven Workforce Development Projects - Sponsored by NetApp - Playback Available

 

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