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Think Before You Post

Social Media Kindness Day (11/9) offers educators a meaningful opportunity to engage students in critical conversations about digital citizenship through the lens of thinking routines. This collection of resources provides structured protocols that help students slow down, reflect deeply, and examine their online behaviors and responsibilities with intention. By incorporating thinking routines such as Think-Pair-Share or Circle of Viewpoints, teachers can guide learners to move beyond surface-level understanding of concepts like cyberbullying, online empathy, and digital footprints, and instead help them develop nuanced perspectives about their role in creating positive online communities. This collection includes resources related to digital citizenship, digital literacy, and thinking routines for all grades.

Grades K-12

On-Demand OK2Ask - Digital Citizenship That Sticks: The Power of Thinking Routines

Transform your approach to teaching digital citizenship with Global Thinking Routines. You'll discover how thinking routines naturally scaffold student understanding while building essential digital citizenship skills like critical evaluation of content.

Grades K-12

Project Zero's Thinking Routines Toolbox

Scroll through the site to find Core Thinking Routines, Digging Deeper into Ideas, Introducing & Exploring Ideas, and several other routine types. Use the filters to find thinking routines by subject area, thinking disposition or competence, or project.

Grades 4-12

6 Essential Thinking Routines You Need in Your Repertoire

This resource and podcast highlight six must-have thinking routines for educators: Looking Ten Times Two, Step Inside, Headlines, Creative Questions, ESP+I, and See, Think, Wonder. Each routine serves a distinct purpose, from observation to reflection.

Grades K-12

Harvard Project Zero Thinking Routines 7 Think Pair Share

Watch this video, which demonstrates how routines such as See, Think, Wonder and Think, Puzzle, Explore can spark curiosity, deepen understanding, and promote reflection across various subjects. The classroom examples highlight how to use the routines.

Grades K-12

TeachersFirst Digital Citizenship Resources

Skim through the resources in this curated collection, which teaches critical skills such as protecting personal information, recognizing misinformation, practicing respectful communication, and understanding the lasting impact of one's digital footprint.

Grades K-12

K-12 Digital Citizenship Curriculum

Common Sense Education offers a free digital citizenship curriculum with interactive lessons for grades K-12. Topics include digital footprints, online privacy, cyberbullying prevention, media literacy, and responsible social media use tailored by age.

Grades K-12

Digital Citizenship Lessons

These lessons, developed by ISTE+ASCD, develop competencies to help students become healthy digital citizens. The program explores five core areas of digital citizenship that are useful to students in all grades so every student can gain these skills.

Grades K-12

TeachersFirst Digital Literacy Resources

This collection shares resources related to digital literacy, which includes navigating, evaluating, and creating online content while critically assessing credibility, understanding data privacy, and participating responsibly in digital communities.

Grades 6-12

Think Before You Post

This interactive site teaches about responsible social media use through gamified modules. Topics include digital footprints, appropriate content, reporting threats, and understanding real-world consequences of online posts, including legal implications.

Grades 6-8

A Day in the Life of the Jos

Through five engaging choose-your-own-adventure modules, students assist siblings Jo and Josie in navigating real-life digital dilemmas related to cyberbullying, data privacy, online reputation, privacy ethics, and verifying online information.

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