Internet Safety: Digital Citizenship

This short video reviews strategies to relieve technology’s impact on:

  • Physical: Sleep
  • Mental: Self-soothing, self-regulation
  • Relationship Skills: Unhealthy and healthy friendship skills, digital drama, cyberbullying, upstanders

Additional Resources

Digital Citizenship Guide for Parents

  • Organization: MediaSmarts
  • Type: pdf guide
  • Focus: Respecting people’s feelings, privacy, and digital property.

TED Talk: Connected But Alone?

  • Organization: TED
  • Type: Video (18:30 minutes)
  • Focus: Sherry Turkle studies how our devices and online personas are redefining human connection and communication — and asks us to think deeply about the new kinds of connection we want to have.

Last updated May 06, 2021