Sector
Primary
Sector
Primary
Course dates
30-09-24 to 20-06-25
Study time
3 hours
Target audience
All teachers and school leadership teams
Places
Unlimited
This course aims to provide teachers with the knowledge, resources and confidence to teach digital citizenship and to empower their pupils to be safe, ethical and responsible online.
It is a shortened and updated version of an earlier primary summer course ‘Introduction to Digital Citizenship Education’ which ran for three years and was shortlisted for an international Learning Award in 2023.
Participants will explore what it means to be a good digital citizen and how they can integrate online wellbeing, media literacy, privacy, communication, ethics, empathy and more into their teaching. The course contains good practice videos filmed in primary schools and provides access to a wealth of online safety resources from Webwise.
The course was developed by Oide Technology in Education in collaboration with our Webwise team.
At the end of this course, you should be able to:
There are five modules in this course, which include lessons on each topic, interactive activities and a final quiz on completion of the course.
1. Introduction to Digital Citizenship Education
This module provides an introduction to digital citizenship education, what it is and why it is important. It also provides ideas on how it can be integrated into classroom practice as well as signposting specific supports available to teachers.
2. Being Online
Module 2 explores the Being Online theme, focussing on the area of media and literacy as the key digital citizenship competence within this theme.
3. Wellbeing Online
Module 3 provides an overview of the Wellbeing Online theme, focussing on managing your online wellbeing as the key digital citizenship competence within this theme.
4. Rights Online
Module 4 will provide an overview of the Rights Online theme, focussing on rights and responsibilities as the key digital citizenship competence within this theme.
5. Creating an Action Plan for Digital Citizenship
Participants will learn how to integrate Digital Citizenship with the Digital Learning Framework and also learn about further supports and resources to help plan their next steps with integrating digital citizenship in the primary classroom.
A laptop, desktop pc or tablet* with the latest version of Chrome, Firefox or Safari installed. A good broadband internet connection is essential.
*Most tablet devices work well with our course software but some older devices may not be compatible. Please do not use a smartphone to complete the course.
While this course is free, the content includes examples of many apps and software titles for the purposes of illustration, some of which involve a cost.
NB: Participants need to access one third party application – without needing to login – as part of the course. Please be aware of this application’s terms of service and privacy policies, as follows:
This course maps to the Teaching & Learning (Domains 1, 3 and 4) and the Leadership & Management (Domains 1, 2 and 4) dimensions of the Digital Learning Framework.
For more information visit the DL planning website.
The course maps to the DigCompEdu Competency Framework for educators, in particular Area 1: Professional Engagement; Area 2: Digital Resources; Area 3: Teaching and Learning and Area 6: Facilitating Learners’ Digital Competence.
For more information visit the DigCompEdu website.
A course certificate is provided upon completion of this course.
You may be able to consider this course for Croke Park hours, subject to school management approval, particularly in relation to up to ten ‘Croke Park’ hours that may be allowed for potential individual/small group use (Circular 0042/2016 Primary and Circular 045/2016 Post Primary).
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