Information for Teachers

ISTE Students: 5 Digital Citizenship

Students understand human, cultural, and societal issues related to technology and practice legal and ethical behaviour.

1. Advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information and technology.

4. Exhibit leadership for digital citizenship

Here is an Understanding by Design Unit Plan to help you teach citation alongside a research project (remember to open the links in a new tab). You can adjust it to teach at any primary grade:

Here are some visible thinking routines to help get you started:

CITATION PLEDGE IDEAS FOR A PYP SCHOOL

I am a...	What does it look like?
Inquirer	I ask questions and look for information.
Balanced	I read information from more than one kind of media.
Communicator	I share what I have learned from different kinds of media.
Thinker	I know that work is mine or someone else’s.
Principled	I am academically honest. I give credit for others’ work.
Knowledgeable	I know how to find out the information needed to cite different kinds of media.
Risk-taker	I try using new medias as resources and try to cite information, even when I don’t know how.
Caring	I help other people share and cite information. I give people feedback.
Reflective	I can ask for help when I don’t know how to cite information.
Open-minded	I look for sources that show different perspectives.

Digital Learner Profile

Image by Stephanie Thomson

Citation references:
MLA Citation Series for your reference

A complicated flowchart that will help you figure out when you can use an image you've found online. Use this image as a model for your own model:

Flowchart by Sylvia Rosenthal Tolisano,

(CC by NC SA)