Digital Citizenship and Online Safety Case Studies From Other School Programs

Studies From School Programs

The NAESP Program

There are school programs that made studies about digital citizenship and online safety. For instance, the NAESP program talked about the safety and responsibility that all students should learn. The program also claimed that parents and principals should work together to spread information about digital citizenship in the school. For example, According to the NAESP, “Principals should actively partner with parents to foster online safety by hosting informational workshops and sending home digital and print resources in native languages. To reinforce ongoing expectations, schools should post digital citizenship guidelines around the school as public reminders.” NAESP stated that those who are responsible for the students’ education and safety should give reminders/tips about digital citizenship.

According to NAESP, this is a list of things students, principals, teachers, and parents should do:

Students Should:

Be respectful, kind, and honest;
Talk to your teacher and parent as soon as you see, feel, or experience something that is not right on the Internet;
Use strong passwords;
Make sure teachers and parents have all of your passwords;
Remember that not everyone is who they say they are on the Internet; and
Use primary sources.

Students Should Not:

Share personal information online;
Open unexpected messages or unfamiliar attachments;
Agree to meet people who approach you online; or
Plagiarize or cheat.

Teachers Should:

Partner with parents regarding the types of devices and digital curriculum their children will use throughout the school year;
Review the district’s Acceptable Use Policy with parents and students;
Have students sign a safety pledge that supports device care and digital citizenship expectations;
Directly teach students how to take proper care of their devices;
Pre-assess student knowledge and experience with devices and the Web in order to plan instruction;
Directly teach specific Web skills and applications that you expect students to know and be able to use;
Engage students in technology as an authentic means toward learning; and
Pursue professional learning opportunities to strengthen curricular and digital skills.

Educators and Parents Should:

Become digitally literate;
Keep computers and devices visible for your attention;
Set limits and guidelines;
Use system controls for devices and websites;
Understand social networking and photo sharing; and
Preview websites in advance.

Poudre School District/PSD

The Poudre School District stated that their goal is to not only help students in school, but to help students personally with their safety from the internet. This video will talk about tips for parents on how to keep their children safe from the internet

Jurupa Unified School District

The Jurupa Unified School District stated that since their students have their own device to bring to school, they should understand the things in the internet that they should look out for. For example, according to the Jurupa Unified School District, “We wanted to make sure everyone was teaching digital citizenship —and that students understand password safety, stranger danger online, constructive use of social media, and other components of digital citizenship,” said Josh Lewis, director of education-information
technology for JUSD.”

Omaha Public Schools

The people who are part of the Omaha Public Schools program planned to help students and teachers improve in the use of the internet, and to be qualified as good digital citizens. For example, according to Omaha Public Schools, “OPS recognized that digital citizenship instruction needed to be a prerequisite for student technology access, so the district also implemented a plan to support students with both digital literacy and digital citizenship. To execute the plan, OPS hired Keegan Korf, a full-time Common Sense Education regional manager and OPS lead teacher focused on digital citizenship.” OPS claimed that their goal is to help students and teachers keep an eye on digital citizenship. Also, OPS applied a program called Microsoft Innovative Educators(MIE). MIE was used to train teachers into helping their students with the use of technology.

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