Community reviews for Digital Passport

Digital Passport is beyond easy for a teacher to implement. We always go through the first log-in experience as a class, learning how to create a safe and strong password. Students get confused at this first part, as they then think they are supposed to memorize and use this "practice" safe and strong password for future visits to Digital Passport. The other suggestion is to have a Digital Passport version for K-2nd grade, as you have every other grade covered: Digital Passport for 3-5, Digital Compass for middle school and Digital Bytes for Middle School.

This application provides visual support for students through games and scenarios that they can relate to in their ever-changing digital world.

This product is very engaging and in a fun way demonstrates to the user the point of the lesson. I wish that the there was a way to incorporate the written component into the online experience. I would love also to find a way to fully engage my low literacy and ELL learners.

The students like the game type format. Some do have trouble with working the Share Jumper game. I do think you need to do more with the games than just play them if you really want to teach the concepts.

This is a great enhancement to my digital citizenship curriculum. I like that the kids can work at their own pace, however that they cannot save their progress in each potion has been frustrating to both myself and my students.

The videos were so well done! They really added a lot to further instruction! I think the games are really well suited for my students. I like how it provided feedback after each round. That was really important for me as I walked around and conferenced with individual students about their answer choices. I also like how teachers were able to see results immediately. I liked a lot of the additional challenges (the PDF print outs) for my early finishers, however, I used this in a tech lab so it would work better for me if those were online options. Perhaps students could fill in the worksheet online and then submit it or even print it. We really don't have a written work area in the lab. The only game I have critique for is Search Shark. My students were not engaged the whole time because there were too many rounds. I think less rounds might be better. Finally, I wish there was a way that students would have to repeat rounds and levels if they didn't reach a certain percentage. After exporting the grades, I was able to see their scores and some of them scored really low. Had I known right away, I would have made them repeat.

Digital passport is a great teaching tool. I think the Twalkers module was the most eye opening one for my students. They found how difficult it was to concentrate on two things at once. We can tell them all we want that cell phones are a distraction, but actually seeing it in action helped. The mix-n-mash one is the module I feel is lacking. I think the students don't "get" what they are doing with it.

I love the digital passport. I think it is a well organized way to teach kids about being a good digital citizen. I love that it can open up topics that are applicable to what the students are doing online. IF I could make a change I would ask that the games save mid progress. I have the students for once a week for 40 minutes and if they can't complete it during the allotted time they are required to start over. I also think it would be nice if the students could not progress to the next round if they were not "getting it". I think that it would be nice to have some sort of review at the end of each mission that is quiz like so that you can do a quick assessment of what they are learning.

I love the fact that this product covers a wide variety of topics that kids need to learn about these days. There are so many hidden dangers and I love how these products have cartoons that help kids understand the dangers and potential consequences. With kids younger and younger getting cell phones it is so important that they are taught about the dangers out there.

The Digital Passport is a great learning tool. The lessons that accompany the games, or a teacher creating his/her own lessons to explain and reinforce the concepts, are key. Students' scores are recorded on the teacher account which is great way to assess the student progress. It also keeps them honest about whether or not they completed the game and how they did. I preferred the website to the app but now that our school is 1:1 iPads it only makes sense to use the apps. A few students understood the concept but had trouble with playing the games.