Digital+Citizenship


 * Gridizenship, Citizenship** (Vicky Davis, Anne Collier, Marianne Malmstrom, Bron Stuckey)

Digital Citizenship is not rocket science. It is based on kindness and respect for one another online and off-line. It is social literacy.

Critical thinking and ethical choices about the content and impact on oneself, others, and one’s community of what one sees, says, and produces with media and technology.

Pillars of citizenship of learning Infrastructure Practice Guidance

INFRASTRUCTURE: Quest Atlantis (www.QuestAtlantis.org) – a virtual world. Brings together students from around the world who are completing curriculum tasks. A closed environment (trained teachers). For children 9-15. There are live monitors who watch for exemplary behavior and infractions. It is free but two teachers must train from your school. Training is online. All over the summer. 4 meetings in a month online. Quest Atlantis started 7 years ago.

Community Responsibility Values Security

A safe environment where children can practice. Teen2teen.wikispaces.com

GUIDANCE BE CAREFUL – THIS MACHINE HAS NO BRAIN. USE YOUR OWN. www.digiteen.org - it’s free. Start with PBS “Growing up Online”. Write a collaborative Wiki. Jigsaw digital citizenship. Do oral presentations on projects (topics of Digital Citizenship). Here are examples of action projects done by students: supersocialsafety.blogspot.com. Twitter @socialsafety []. Recommendations by kids for good virtual worlds: moshi monsters, fantage, girl sense, club penguin, woogi world, hubba bubba, poptropica. Did not recommend: boom bang, habbo, chamber of chat, ninja kiwi, pixie hollow.

70% of virtual worlds have objectional content. We need to empower students in service learning projects to bring info out to the world.

Woogi World – purpose: use woogi world to teach elementary (have 4th and fifth graders go into other lower el classrooms to teach.

Digiteen Island

We are so focused on predators, but the real risk is cyberbullying and harassment. We need to focus on this behavior. We block social media at school and we cant do that anymore because then they are on their own.

Intrapersonal Interpersonal Techni-personal – there is technology in between. if we are not conscious, we dis personalize kids. They become drones. Humanize the person at the other end of the technology.

Teachers have always taught citizenship. We need to teach DIGITAL citizenship. KAIZEN. Slow and steady change.

“Power of Pull” – book about reverse mentoring.