This We the Citizens Poster is just one element of the new Introduction To Digital Citizenship Starter Kit, a collaboration between Edmodo and Common Sense Media. Though the activities are specifically designed for students interacting on the Edmodo social networking platform, lessons are easily adapted for other online communities. The kit includes five modules designed [...]
With great power comes great responsibility. So advises Peter Parker’s Uncle Ben. In a blog post Henry Jenkins re-imagines Peter/Spiderman as a case study representing a whole generation of youth who, like Peter, are deploying new media technologies and the processes associated with them to develop a clearer understanding of themselves and their place in [...]
Each year I have a chat with our junior class. It’s an opportunity to discuss resources supporting the college application process and it’s an opportunity to chat with them about their e-reputations. We talk about email addresses. Though they are about to begin formal exchanges with the university they are interested in attending, it’s surprising [...]
Truth, Lies and the Internet, a just-published report from the British think-tank Demos, shares that, despite their feelings of efficacy, young people are not careful, discerning users of the Internet. Researchers Jamie Bartlett and Carl Miller reviewed current literature and conducted an online survey of 509 primary and secondary school teachers in England and Wales [...]
If you teach about Creative Commons, if you have students and teachers interested in creating new media, in remixing or mashing-up, you will want to download a copy of The Power of Open. The pdf book is a kind of temperature check, more accurately a celebration, of the impact of the global explosion of openness [...]
photo © 2007 telmo32 | more info (via: WylioWes Fryer turned me on to Wylio earlier this week, suggesting I add it to my Copyright Friendly Pathfinders. (Here’s our thumbnail version of that pathfinder.). Wylio is a little different from the other CC image portals and I kinda fell instantly in love. It’s also perfect [...]
Larry Magid and Anne Collier’s Parents’ Guide to Facebook is must reading for parents–and librarians. * 35-Page PDF guide * Chart of recommended privacy settings for teens Make sure you share the downloadable guide and accompanying online resources (available at Connectsafely.org). The perspective is reasoned and realistic and focused on supporting responsible citizenship. The authors offer [...]
Some stuff just seems harder to teach. Some standards seem harder to own. Digital citizenship is a critical element of ISTE’s NETS (standards for students). It is woven throughout AASL’s Standards for the 21st Century Learner. Everyday I live, model, and teach citizenship. But, to be perfectly honest, I haven’t been able to figure out [...]
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