Digital Citizenship and Media Literacy Resources
What is Digital Citizenship?
"Digital Citizenship includes the norms of appropriate, responsible, and healthy behavior related to current technology use, including digital and media literacy, ethics, etiquette, and security. Digital citizenship includes the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, develop, produce, and interpret media, as well as Internet safety and cyberbullying prevention and response."
What is Media Literacy?
"Media Literacy is the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, create, and act using a variety of forms of communication. Media literacy includes the ability to understand how and why media messages and images are constructed and for what purposes they are used."
The definitions above are from Washington State Substitute Senate Bill 6273.
Resources for Families
These resources help families support their children through conversations and learning about digital citizenship and media literacy.
- Family Tech Planners: Use these tech planners to help your children think through important questions around tech use: What will I do? How much time will I spend? Am I making thoughtful choices?
- Family Media Agreement: Use the age-appropriate family media agreement form to discuss and set expectations for children's media use.
- Customizable Device Contract: Use this customizable device contract and suggested guidelines to set agreed-upon expectations for children using devices at home.
- Common Sense Carpool Conversations: A podcast series that invites adults and kids to talk about the issues that matter most in kids' digital lives.
- Family Tips: Digital citizenship tips and advice for families of all ages from Common Sense Education.
- The 5 M’s of Digital Wellness: Tips for families from The Digital Wellness Lab on how to support their children in using devices in positive, purposeful ways.
- Common Sense Education Parent & Caregiver Webinars: Upcoming webinars and previously recorded sessions providing parenting tips and helpful resources on digital citizenship and literacy.
- Online Safety Program from the Family Online Safety Institute: Videos, tip sheets, resources, and blogs to help families navigate the digital world.
- 12 Tips for Parents in the Digital Age from the American Academy of Pediatrics: Tips to guide families in supporting children in developing healthy digital habits.
Grade-Specific Resources & Classroom Tools
Common questions and quick guides to help families navigate digital life at different ages.
Additional Information
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The following District policies and procedures help guide this work at NTPS:
- Procedure 2022P Student Electronic Resources and Digital Citizenship
- Policy 2023 Digital Citizenship and Media Literacy
- Policy 2023A Student Artificial Intelligence Code of Conduct