Digital Citizenship Resources
for Teachers and Students
Empowering students to understand and respect digital citizenship and intellectual property rights, laying the groundwork for innovation and ethical digital practices.
On this page you’ll find lots of resources about Digital Citizenship and intellectual property rights.
You’ll be able to teach and learn how to identify, protect, and respect intellectual property rights in academic, creative, and professional contexts.
Discover practical tools for avoiding infringement, citing others’ work ethically, and understanding your rights over your creations. You’ll also access resources to help with data privacy, effective research strategies (including AI), plagiarism, fake news (including deepfakes) and much more.
It’s common for students to re-use content they find online for schoolwork or for fun things they’re doing at home, but they can’t simply claim it as their own.
Young people often don’t know what they can or can’t use or what constitutes fair use.
Whether you’re creating something new or using someone else’s creations, knowing the ins and outs of IP rights and responsibilities is beneficial for everyone.
Learning Resources
This content helps you and your students learn about important topics within Digital Citizenship, such as intellectual property, data privacy, effective research strategies (with search engines and AI), plagiarism, citation, fake news, deepfakes—and more.
Below, you will see links to take you to the different resources:
- lesson plans and activities for each topic (across Grade 4 to Grade 8)
- an editable presentation to support each lesson.
As you will have different curriculum maps for your settings, please use your professional judgment on how to structure your lessons from these resources.
Learning Resources: Intellectual Property and Rights (Grade 4)
Lesson plan
What Rights Do You Have?
Presentation
What Rights Do You Have?
Scenario Cards
Scenario Card Activity Prompts
Learning Resources: Protecting Your Personal Information Online (Grade 5)
Lesson plan
Protecting Your Personal Information Online
Presentation
Protecting Your Personal Information Online
Scenario Cards
Protecting Your Personal Information Online
Learning Resources: Effective Research Strategies (including AI) (Grade 6)
Lesson plan
Effective Research Strategies
Presentation
Effective Research Strategies
Activity Worksheet
Student ‘Research Challenge Activity’ worksheet
Learning Resources: Plagiarism and How To Avoid It (Grade 7)
Lesson plan
Plagiarism and How To Avoid It
Presentation
Plagiarism and How To Avoid It
Learning Resources: Understanding and Identifying Fake News and Deepfakes (Grade 8)
Lesson plan
Understanding and Identifying Fake News
Presentation
Understanding and Identifying Fake News
Digital
Citizenship Guide
Digital Citizenship is essential—for us as educators and adults, and equally for young people. It involves understanding how to use technology responsibly, ethically, and safely. As students navigate digital platforms, social media, and the internet, they encounter opportunities and risks in equal measure.
Intellectual Property
PD Resource
When it comes to Digital Citizenship, role modeling is key, but not all educators know their rights and responsibilities around intellectual property and citation. This free training resource covers this, and aligns with ISTE’s Standards for Educators.
Purpose of the Guide
This guide aims to equip educators with the knowledge and tools necessary to foster Digital Citizenship among students. It provides practical strategies for integrating Digital Citizenship into the curriculum and addressing the challenges associated with the digital world.
Purpose of the Presentation
This resource equips educators with knowledge of different citation methods, helping them ensure that students know their intellectual property rights and how to respect those of other creators. It is editable so you can tailor it for use in your setting.
Digital
Citizenship Guide
Digital citizenship is essential – both for us as educators and adults, and equally for young people. It involves understanding how to use technology responsibly, ethically, and safely. As students navigate digital platforms, social media, and the internet, they encounter
opportunities and risks in equal measure.
Purpose of the Guide
This guide aims to equip educators with the knowledge and tools necessary to foster digital citizenship among students. It provides practical strategies for integrating digital citizenship into the curriculum and addressing the challenges associated with the digital world.
Intellectual Property
PD Resource
When it comes to Digital Citizenship, role modeling is key, but not all educators know their rights and responsibilities around intellectual property and citation. This free training resource covers this, aligning with ISTE’s Standards for Educators.
Purpose of the Presentation
This resource equips educators with knowledge of different citation methods, helping them ensure that students know their intellectual property rights and how to respect those of other creators. It is editable so you can tailor it for use in your setting.