....... to get a digital citizenship curriculum in the middle schools. They have hired Teri Caouette, a library media specialist to do this. Too many times librarians are left out on technology initiatives and Teri hopes to connect with school librarians to be the leaders in their schools.

Curriculum Overview (pdf) | Demonstartion Site (pdf)

The curriculum is free and is based on the work of Howard Gardner and the GoodPlay Project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Each school will make a determination what works at their school. Some schools may wish to do the entire curriculum and become demonstration schools. You may choose all or only a few of the strands.

Common Sense Website.

Click on the Educator button on the top bar. You will need to sign in as an educator to get all of the material (not all is available without signing in). Scroll down to the right hand side that says Digital Literacy and Citizenship Curriculum.
I would suggest clicking on the red "grades 6-8" for all three: Safety and Security, Digital Citizenship and Research and Information Literacy and then clicking Get the Curriculum button.
Each unit has lessons, work sheets and video clips that are well worth using. There are also parent connections. There are five strands:

• Digital Life Unit: Students explore the positive and negative impact of digital media on their lives,
  communities, and culture as a pathway to defining good digital citizenship.
• Privacy and Digital Footprints Unit: Students learn that the Internet is a very public space and that they must therefore carefully manage their digital footprint and respect the privacy of others online.
• Self-Expression and Identity Unit: Students identify and explore different ways they present themselves online while at the same time learning to recognize when playing with identity can cross the line into deception.
• Connected Culture Unit: Students explore the ethics of online communities – both the negative behaviors to avoid, like cyberbullying and hate speech, and positive behaviors that support collaboration and positive relationships.
• Respecting Creative Work Unit: Students learn about the value and responsibility of being a 21st-century creator: getting credit for your own work and giving others proper respect online.
  School librarians are part of the leadership team for their schools and are invited to the MLTI regional leadership meetings.

Contact Teri Caouette teri.caouette@mlti.org for more information.