Now, more than ever before, Digital Citizenship for students is paramount in education. All Orange Unified schools are working towards becoming certified as a Common Sense School. Earning the Common Sense School badge is a symbol of our school's dedication to helping students think critically and use technology responsibly to learn, create, and participate.
All students in Orange Unified are guided through a minimum of three (3) Digital Citizenship Lessons utilizing the Common Sense Curriculum. Parents are welcome to view these lessons through the Educational Technology website, direct link here.
FAMILY ENGAGEMENT
As part of our commitment to ensure that families are knowledgeable and and able to navigate the ups and downs of raising kids in today's digital age, we would like to ensure the following resources are available:
Wide Open Schools (PreK - 5)
Explore a balanced daily schedule for online learning among many other resources for parents and families.
Get equipped to guide your child in today's digital world by attending a district presentation on Digital Citizenship. Presentations cover the Common Sense Curriculum that students are guided through as well as a number of other topics including: Learning with Technology, Cyberbullying, Digital Drama, Media, Gaming, and Mental Health.
Please contact your school site for upcoming scheduled family presentation nights.
The following is a message that is presented to promote our culture of Digital Citizenship within Orange Unified.
In today's society of devices everywhere, it is common to question appropriate uses and times that are best for our students. See below for some important research and articles pertaining to Screen Time.
OrangeUSD 1:1 Handbook - This handbook explains the use and care of the 1:1 devices within OrangeUSD.
Parent Pupil District Policy Handbook - This handbook references all policies within the district including technology expectations. The OrangeUSD 1:1 Handbook is supplement to these policies explaining the usage and care for the district 1:1 devices.
If your device is lost or stolen from home, please report this to the school where an incident report will be filled out and a note will be placed in the inventory system that the device has been stolen.
If the device has been stolen at school due to a known break in at the site, then use the attached document (below) to file a police report and document the loss within the district.