Ashley Walker's SLIS 761 Blog

As a high school teacher, I have been tasked with teaching many mandated, provided lessons about cyberbullying and digital citizenship to my various advisory and homeroom groups. One thing that has always frustrated me is that the students never seemed to care or take the lessons seriously. Many students have told me that cyberbullying doesn't happen or isn't a real problem, but I think the real issue is that they don't connect what they experience online to this very artificial-seeming "cyberbullying" that they learn about at school. Orech's article "How It's Done" mentions similar attempts by schools to "teach" students about digital citizenship through mandated lessons. He describes an alternative called the Digital Citizenship Project that encourages students to dive into the concept of digital citizenship by creating resources for authentic audiences and interacting with real people. My favorite aspect of the project is the mento...

Tool:  SC Discus Link:   https://www.scdiscus.org/ I chose to focus on SC Discus because it is an amazing free resource! I have spoken with school librarians who moved here from other states without a resource like this one, and their school libraries pay tens of thousands of dollars per year  in subscription fees to databases! If you teach in South Carolina, your students can access dozens of databases entirely for free. What is SC Discus? SC Discus is a collection of subscription databases that are made free and available to South Carolinians through state and federal funding. The databases cover all kinds of topics from general academic databases to those focused on specific topics (nursing, health, reference, etc) and even those focused on specific resource types (such as videos). How does it work? Once you arrive at the home page , you have a few options: you can go to "A-Z List" (useful if you want to see all of the databases at once, or if you know which ...