The EGUSD Digital Citizenship team has been writing blog posts and curating information and resources links for our families, staff and community for the past 8 years. Realizing that the digital world can be overwhelming for some, we hope to make tough topics easier to navigate and help people understand the importance of what it means to be active and contributing digital citizens. We warmly invite you to subscribe to, comment on and share resources you find on our website.
Addressing the Need for Media Literacy
In the eight years that EGUSD's digital citizenship program has been in place, new challenges and new resources have necessitated regular updates to this website, which is organized around our four main themes: cyberbullying, digital footprint, protecting privacy...
Digital Citizenship – It’s not just for students
A recent article by Keegan Korf, Embracing Our Digital Footprints and Guiding Students to Curate and Reshape Their Own, re-ignited a conversation on digital citizenship resources for adults. Until now, our focus has been predominately on students. While we provide a...
PBS: We’ll Meet Again – Reiko Nagumo Reunited With Her Upstander
Thanks to an email from Julie Thomas, Library Archivist for California State University, Sacramento, we made sure to be home last Tuesday by 8:00 p.m. Julie’s subject line was a grabber for us: Reiko Nagumo “We’ll Meet Again.” Her message was short: “Here is the link...
Facebook’s new Messenger Kids app – for children under the age of 13
Facebook recently released a spin-off version of their Messenger app, designed specifically for children under the age of 13. Until now, Facebook has required users to be 13+ to create an account. Although Messenger Kids allows tweens into the world of Facebook...
National U.S. “Media Literacy Week” – November 6-10, 2017
This week we join the National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) in celebrating National Media Literacy Week. Organizations, schools, educators and Media Literacy Week partners from all over the country have partnered with NAMLE to participate in...
EGUSD Students Stand Up and Speak Out Against Bullying
Students from several of our EGUSD schools (Monterey Trail High School and Roy Herburger Elementary School) took the pledge to "Stand Up Speak Out" against bullying at the California Museum's Unity Center as part of October's National Bullying Prevention Month and...
Digital Citizenship Week: Oct. 16-20
All of our EGUSD Digital Citizenship Site Coordinators have been busy submitting their site implementation plans for the new school year and it's refreshing to see changes that incorporate some of the new Common Sense Media and Google Be Internet Awesome materials we...
Teaching Digital Citizenship in 2017-18
We wanted to share a couple of noteworthy resources for the new school year. Common Sense Media has created a guide for all teachers: Digital Citizenship & Social and Emotional Learning. The guide contains a set of digital dilemmas that students may face at some...
Heading into the summer prepared for “challenges”
As we wrap up the 2016-17 school year, we want to thank all EGUSD school sites for implementing digital citizenship through lessons, parent nights, assemblies and on campus initiatives. With students heading into summer vacation, their well being and safety remains a...
Defining Bullying and Cyberbullying
“Isn’t ‘cyberbullying’ just another form of ‘bullying’? Why label it as a separate issue?” We have been asked this question a number of times. And, yes, we agree that cyberbullying is a form of bullying. Ideally, there would not be a need to add “cyber” in front of...
Main Themes of EGUSD Digital Citizenship
Subscribe by Email.
Completely spam free, opt out any time.
This form is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
