Presenter: Name: Kristen Mattson

Title: Adjunct Lecturer and University Supervisor
Organization/School: University of Illinois

Program Description
Tired of having to find time for one more thing in your already packed school day? Why not take care of two important content areas at once? In this session, you'll hear about the best picture books for teaching topics like digital safety, media and information literacy, digital well-being, and social responsibility, while also reinforcing your literacy goals. You'll also see some fun extension activities, and walk away with a curated book list to make shopping for your classroom or library a breeze.

Learning Objectives
Participants will:

Recognize an expanded definition of digital citizenship which includes internet safety, media and information literacy, digital health and wellbeing and social responsibility

Identify opportunities for connecting library standards, digital citizenship goals, and picture books

Engage with resources and peers

Program Outline
Direct Instruction:
Introduction to digital citizenship through a shared definition and framework
Recognition of barriers to more thorough and holistic digital citizenship approaches
Introduction of the concept of "hacking digital citizenship" into content area goals

Peer to Peer Sharing:
How might you "hack" a current learning goal to incorporate an area of digital citizenship education?

Direct Instruction:
Books and extension ideas to help teach digital safety through read-alouds
Books and extension ideas to help teach media literacy through read-alouds
Books and extension ideas to help teach digital health and wellbeing through read-alouds
Books and extension ideas to help teach social responsibility through read-alouds

Resource Exploration:
Participants will be directed to a curated list of books and activities to explore and take with them when they leave
Hacking Digital Citizenship into Your Read Aloud

Grade Level: Prek-2, 3-5

Session Strand: Teaching & Learning

Presenter
Kristen Mattson

Dr. Kristen Mattson has been in education for nearly twenty years as a classroom teacher and school librarian. She now supports pre-service school librarians in the field and teaches grad courses in media literacy and digital citizenship at The University of Illinois. Additionally, Kristen has served as a subject matter expert on various projects with ISTE, the National Parent Teacher Association, the Bureau of Education & Research, and the Kentucky Department of Education and Nebraska Department of Education. She also loves taking what she’s learned in the field and sharing it with educators through conference presentations, school district partnerships, webinars and writing. Kristen is the author of "Digital Citizenship in Action" (ISTE, 2024) and "Ethics in a Digital World" (ISTE, 2021). She also authored the “Digital Citizenship in Action” ISTE U course.

Outside of work, Kristen stays busy raising her three amazing teenagers, William, Lily and Alice in Yorkville, Illinois. She is also enjoying a honeymoon every day with the love of her life, Adam. Together, they enjoy traveling to places near and far, working on their fixer-upper, and kicking butt at bar trivia under the team name “Dr. & Mr.”.


Description: Tired of having to find time for one more thing in your already packed school day? Why not take care of two important content areas at once? In this session, you'll hear about the best picture books for teaching topics like digital safety, media and information literacy, digital well-being, and social responsibility, while also reinforcing your literacy goals. You'll also see some fun extension activities, and walk away with a curated book list to make shopping for your classroom or library a breeze.