Developing and Embedding Digital Citizenship: Teaching Safe Savvy Social | Secondary

This webinar will provide school leaders, teachers and support staff with a detailed insight into the importance of building a foundation of digital citizenship in young people, along with a greater understanding of how to implement such teaching in secondary settings.

In a 2022 survey, Ofcom found that 99% of 3- to 17-year-olds in the UK went online during the previous year. As proportions of that size increasingly solidify as standard, it is essential that educators are exploring effective ways to teach young people how to be responsible digital citizens. To do this, schools need to be able to identify the skills relating to digital citizenship – and how they interconnect across the curriculum. It’s also highly useful to be able to evidence and demonstrate growth in the various levels of students’ digital citizenship. 

Here, Dr Mike Ribble, Director of Information Technology for the Manhattan–Ogden schools district in Kansas, discusses the S3 (safe; savvy; social) model of digital citizenship and how it can enable young people to experience the online world more safely, ethically and responsibly.