Digital Wellbeing

You don’t have to be using the latest app or social media site to have conversations with your students about life online. Instead of shying away, provide your students a safe space to talk with you about their digital experiences. You can use images like the ones below (and hundreds of others linked here !) as a way to kick off the conversation. Need a few ideas for purposeful integration? Try incorporating bell ringers , a gallery walk, or even just some discussion cards

You can create a safe space for your students to engage in conversation about digital topics with though-provoking images and a variety of activities. Students of all ages can use the  image/discussion cards  I’ve created in a variety of ways. Asking students to group images and assign groups a label will force them to engage in discussion and analysis of the artwork in front of them. The questions on the back of the image cards can make great journal prompts, debate topics,

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

Have you heard the Brad Paisley song, I’m So Much Cooler Online ? The lyrics to that song, specifically the chorus, have been going through my head a lot in the last few weeks. I have had Library Media Center Directors and technology leaders from around the area contacting me to see if they could make a visit to our library. People hear about the work my team and I have been doing through this blog and through my posts on Twitter and other social media sites, and I guess the