Digital Safety

Today I had the pleasure of co-hosting a coffee chat with my financial advisor and some of her clients. We spoke in general about the ways misinformation can lead to serious offline consequences. And for this audience in particular, we discussed online frauds and scams that target our pocketbooks. Just yesterday, the Federal Trade Commission released an annual report on consumer fraud. In 2020, consumers reported a total of $304 million in losses due to scams. Internet roman

I have always struggled with requests to speak to families about digital citizenship. Part of my trepidation came from feeling like I had to be the person with 'all the right answers' for any digital dilemma a parent might bring up. It also made me uncomfortable to engage in such personal dialogue with a community of people of which I was not a member. Finally, I've always stood firm in my belief that digital citizenship should not be a standalone, one-time set of lessons in

One of the common concerns I hear about digital citizenship education is that there just “isn’t enough time in the day” to have conversations with kids about living life in digital communities. Having conversations about our digital selves, our digital communities, and our global society can happen in small doses across content areas. Today I created a few bell-ringer slides that you can use to kick off class. Have students free write their thoughts in a journal or ask them t

This is my second reflective blog post on the #DigCit Summit , which was held on 10/28/16 at Twitter Headquarters in San Francisco. I had the pleasure and the privilege of speaking on a panel regarding “What’s Next for Digital Citizenship,” but also got to spend the rest of the day listening to other speakers in education, business, and technology. In my first reflective post, I replied to some speakers’ desire to remove the word ‘digital’ from the Digital Citizenship convers