Digital Literacy Tools
Digital Citizenship Process for Reducing Risk with Social Media and Privacy
Before your students use social media, have them watch the following video from Friendly Screens animation. This will help with privacy issues.
Disney video to learn about online safety.
RightNow Media also has videos on bullying with the McGee and Me! Series. https://www.rightnowmedia.org/ For an invitation to access the RightNow Media site, please email Margaret Basaraba.
- Encourage your younger students in grades K-5 to engage in 21st century tools like subscriptions: Reading Eggs and Pebble Go, WorldBook and Explora Primary, where they can learn safely with limited access.
- Teach privacy skills including Privacy Pirates: An interactive Unit on Online Privacy from MediaSmarts.ca.
- Teach Representing Ourselves Online from MediaSmarts.ca.
Some other materials you can find on Overdrive e Library include the following: Ellray Jakes, the Dragon Slayer! by Sally Warner and Growing Up Online by NBC News for all three sections.
Safety on the Net:
Be Safe on the Internet by Bridget Heos
Being a Good Digital Citizen:
The Defeat of the Cyberbully by Ben Halpert
What is Bullying and What can I Do About It?:
Llama Llama and the Bully Goat by Anna Dewdney
Chester Raccoon and the Big Bad Bully by Audrey Penn
Be Internet Awesome:
Be Internet Awesome: Helping kids be safe, confident explorers of the online world.
Digital Citizenship & Bullying Unit Study Kits