Digital Citizenship Certification for Educators
Common Sense Educators are committed to creating a culture of digital learning and citizenship in their classrooms, schools, and districts. They harness the potential of technology for learning by implementing meaningful learning experiences within a safe and responsible context. Anyone who is an educator – whether a classroom teacher, tech coach, librarian, homeschool teacher, preservice teacher, parent coordinator, or more – can become a Common Sense Educator.
All Project Leads who submit the application will become CERTIFIED EDUCATORS.
All Project Leads who submit the application will become CERTIFIED EDUCATORS.
How do teachers become certified?
Part 1:
Create your profile on Common Sense Education. If you haven't already, sign up as an educator on our membership page, and create a profile.
Become a member of the community. Join the Common Sense Educator community on Facebook
When you COMPLETE these 2 tasks, fill out this application
Create your profile on Common Sense Education. If you haven't already, sign up as an educator on our membership page, and create a profile.
Become a member of the community. Join the Common Sense Educator community on Facebook
When you COMPLETE these 2 tasks, fill out this application
Common Sense Education has many great professional development resources for educators, including webinars, tutorials, Tech Tips & Resources, and in-person trainings. Select two learning activities: one related to digital citizenship and another to digital teaching. Use our Facebook group to explore ideas or get recommendations. Resources can be found on our site for free. And if you're a Premium member, you'll have access to our exclusive e-learning content and can track your own progress.
Digital Citizenship
Digital Citizenship
- Complete the digital citizenship training.
- Attend or watch the archive of an edWeb webinar
- Attend or watch the archive of an edWeb webinar.
- Attend an in-person training by Common Sense staff, PD partner, or Ambassador.
- Complete Premium Membership eLearning (mini-course, webinar, etc.)*.
- Complete a Tech Tips & Resources page.
- Attend or watch the archive of an edWeb webinar.
- Attend an in-person training by Common Sense staff, PD partner, or Ambassador.
- Complete Premium Membership eLearning (mini-course, webinar, etc.)*.
Step 2: DoIn this step, you implement ideas from the LEARN step into your work or practice. This could involve teaching students a digital citizenship lesson, applying a digital teaching strategy in your lesson, facilitating a parent education event, designing a tech-rich lesson, creating an implementation plan, or more. Select two activities: one related to digital citizenship and another to digital teaching. The community can serve as a place to get support as you teach lessons or incorporate edtech tools into your instruction.
Digital Citizenship
Digital Citizenship
- Create one digital citizenship lesson plan (using the Common Sense Education template).
- Teach one lesson from the Digital Citizenship Curriculum.
- Teach/facilitate one module from Digital Passport™.
- Teach/facilitate one storyline from Digital Compass.
- Teach/facilitate one byte from Digital Bytes.
- Create a digital citizenship implementation plan. Ex.: K–12 instruction plan.
- Facilitate a Connecting Families event.
- Create a parent engagement plan**.
- Create a digital citizenship professional development plan**.
- Facilitate a parent event using the Parent Engagement Toolkit*.
- Create one tech-rich lesson plan (using our template).
- Teach one tech-rich lesson (from our catalog).
- Facilitate a Connecting Families event.
- Create a digital teaching implementation plan**.
- Create a parent engagement plan**.
- Create a digital learning professional development plan**.
- Facilitate a parent event using the Parent Engagement Toolkit*.
Step 3: ReflectSharing successes (and failures) is an important part of the learning process and an essential part of professional growth. In this final step, you authentically describe your insights, weaving in ideas that you put into practice from the LEARN and DO steps.
Write a reflection in which you explain your insights from the LEARN and DO activities you completed. Post your reflection in the Common Sense Educator community.
Time commitment: 1 hr. (estimate)
Write a reflection in which you explain your insights from the LEARN and DO activities you completed. Post your reflection in the Common Sense Educator community.
Time commitment: 1 hr. (estimate)
Lesson Plans
Elementary
3-5-unit1-whoseisitanyway.pdf | |
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whose_is_it_anyway_student_activity.pdf | |
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3-5-unit2-pictureperfect.pdf | |
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student_activity_picture_perfect.pdf | |
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3-5-unit2-howtociteasite.pdf | |
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how_to_cite_a_site_student_activity.pdf | |
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jackson_primary_abc_searching.pdf | |
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keep_it_private_k-2_lesson.pdf | |
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Middle School
6-8-unit3-cyberbullyingcrossingtheline.pdf | |
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cyberbullying_crossing_the_line_student_activity.pdf | |
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6-8-unit1-cyberbullyingbeupstanding.pdf | |
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cyber_bullying_be_upstanding_activity_sheet.pdf | |
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