I launched Digital Passports from Common Sense Media with my 160 - 5th grade students in September and they loved it. This is my third year as their technology teacher so they have been hearing the same things for 3 years: passwords are private, no personal information online, appropriate behavior -no hurting other people with your words, videos, images, comments, audio recordings, etc..., what goes online stays online, legal cited images or your images and the mantra continues.
We would spend the first few minutes of each class talking about one of the Digital Passport topics and then the students would do the assignment at home. I would check the results and then add their scores to an assignment I created in Edmodo. If the student received a perfect score of 100% on Edmodo then I would award them a badge. If they received all 5 badges they earned an additional Digital Citizenship badge. The badges were a huge success and students would redo the activity in order to earn them. I also created online quizzes in Edmodo similiar to the questions asked in the activity. Students could earn badges that way as well. Some students did not have great success in the activity for various reasons but could answer all the questions correctly so I wanted to make sure they had an alternative to show me they understood the concepts.
I created a poll in Edmodo asking them which was their favorite lesson. Privacy won by a few votes with Creative Credits coming in second. (Not all students answered the poll)
A few students also added a comment which I have included below.
Student Comments:
I liked upstander the best because:
- it also explained that topic very well,
- and because it was also very fun to play.
That’s why I liked upstander the best!
I liked the Privacy one the best because
1. It was really fun
2. It taught you but it was a bit like a video game as well
3. I felt like the other ones were a bit too educational feeling
I liked Search Shark because
1. I was having problem searching and it helped a lot
2. I liked how they made to practice what is the best way to search
I liked the Twalkers one the best because...
1. It was fun trying to do 2 things at once
2. It taught me that I couldn't really do 2 things at once!
I also liked the twalkers because it also taught me a lesson and it was fun trying to do two things at once but it was also hard... I like challenges.
I like Creative Credit the best because:
1. It was soooo cool!!!
2. You got to design your own Slideshow
3. It has a cool looking badge
Twalkers is fun because it really did help me learn and sometimes I actually try to do multiple things at once but it gets distracting. I think all of them had a moral though. Will we do another game next semester? They're fun!
What I would like to see in the future:
- different lessons for each grade level so I can use it with all my classes and have it not be a repeat for them.
- when I am on the View Results or Manage Activity page and I switch to a different class I would like to remain on the View Results or Manage Activity page
