Resources for Educators:

• Google’s Be Internet Awesome Curriculum: https://beinternetawesome.withgoogle.com/en_us/educators 

• Commonsense Media Curriculum

  • Digital Citizenship Curriculum Scope and Sequence

  • Digital Passport games for grades 3-5 (retiring in June 2025)

  • Digital Compass game for Grades 6-8 (retiring in June 2025)

• Commonsense Media App Reviews

• CSForAll Resources for Educators

Resources for Administrators and Tech Leaders:

• For student data privacy, consider joining TEC (the BEST money I ever spent as a Tech leader!) They will help you gather Student Data Privacy Agreements for your apps and tools used by students in the classroom

• Consider bringing an Internet Safety expert to your school to talk to students, teachers, and parents, such as Katie Greer

• Apply for the Future of Privacy Forum’s Student Privacy Train-the-Trainer Program

• Plan a Family Creative Coding event to encourage families to use technology together in fun, creative, and safe ways!  (Everything you need to know/do is outlined in their facilitator guide)

• Want to get started with coding but don’t know where to start?  Use the ScratchEd Creative Coding Curriculum Guide

• Computer Science Education Week

  • CSTA CSEdWeek (Monday, Dec 9 kickoff)

  • Code.org Hour of Code activities (and how-to guides for hosting your own event)

  • Khan Academy Hour of Code

  • Tynker’s Hour of Code

  • CodeMonkey’s Hour of Code

  • Disney’s Hour of Code

  • Minecraft Hour of Code

  • CS First’s Hour of Code 

• Other Computer Science resources:

  • CSForAll

  • Code.org

  • CSEdWeek and the Hour of Code

    • Computer Science Heros (great posters for printing for your classroom)

  • Google’s CS First

Resources for Vetting Apps and Software:

https://www.1edtech.org/workstream/vetting

ATLIS (Association of Technology Leaders of Independent Schools), EdSURGE, ISTE and ASCD EdTech Index

Validation partners for the Product Index include:

1. Interoperability: Project Unicorn, 1EdTech, Ed-Fi

2. Privacy & Security: Common Sense Media, FPF Student Data Privacy Pledge, iKeepSafe, 1EdTech

3. Digital Pedagogy: ISTE Seal

4. Research & Evidence: Digital Promise, LearnPlatform by Instructure, Leanlab

5. Usability: Digital Promise, CAST

6. Accessibility: CAST

Resources for Parents/Guardians/Caregivers:

• Google’s Be Internet Awesome Resources for Families (Tech in the Home): https://beinternetawesome.withgoogle.com/en_us/families (includes Family Guide, Interland games to play, a Family Guide to Supervised Experiences on Youtube, Internet Awesome Tips, Family Pledge, and more!)

• Commonsense Media

  • Reviews and ratings for apps, movies, books, games, podcasts, and TV shows

  • Tips to help teach your children to protect their data and privacy online

  • Sign up for their newsletter

  • Guides for families based on topics such as social media, gaming, screentime, and cell phones as well as guides to specific apps and tools such as Minecraft, Fortnite, TikTok, and Discord

  • Family Media Agreement template

• CSForAll Resources for Families

• “Not All Screen Time is Created Equal” by Nick Marty.  My favorite screen time article of all time.  It’s an oldie (by Internet standards) but a goodie! 

• Coding Resources:

  • MIT’s Scratch Programming Language

Girls Who Code after school clubs