Digital Citizenship CPD Courses

Digital Citizenship CPD Courses

During the summer, many education practitioners are probably starting to think about what materials, resources etc., they can reuse, what they can tweak and what to completely overhaul in their lessons to...

• address "fake news",
• evaluate information and 
• give proper attribution to content learners may want to use in the future. 

KQEDTeach - https://teach.kqed.org/ - offers a collection of free, hands-on professional learning opportunities focused on Digital Media and is well worth a closer look.

KQEDTeach provides free CPD courses and have recently added several new courses specifically addressing digital citizenship.

Each of the courses follows a learn-make-teach cycle, where individuals are not only given the tools and practice each skill themselves, but they are also encouraged to think about and develop a lesson plan, that they can use in the autumn to address Digital Citizenship with learners.

NOTE: If individuals complete a course and share their lesson plan, they will also get a certificate, which in many instances can be used to certify PD hours. A Win, Win, all round!

Three Digital Citizenship courses worth a closer look are...

1. Safety and Privacy in a Participatory Culture: https://teach.kqed.org/course/safety-and-privacy-in-participatory-culture
   
2. Understanding Copyright and Fair Use: https://teach.kqed.org/course/understanding-copyright-fair-use/ and
   
3. Constructing Media Messages: https://teach.kqed.org/course/constructing-media-messages

If you try any of these courses or have already completed them, do share your feedback, positive and/or negative, in the comments.
Thank you.