Digital+Citizenship

Digital Citizenship: What we have learned Wednesday, June 30, 2010 8:28 AM Mike Ribble What is digital citizenship?Do we care about cell phone use anymore? We aren't multi-tasking - we are tiny slicing - just jumping from one thing to another Are we sharing too much information?Facebook, twitter, etc… Marshall McLuhan - "The Medium is the Message" - we have extensions( occurs when and individual or society makes or uses something in a way that extends the range of the human body and mind in a fashion that is new)All extensions can amputate, or modify another extension (using the phone amputates the penmanship). Scott McLeod Video - Did you Know 4.0 This is another session that is below me.He is talking about how much kids use technology and how we need to address this.But there isn't any content.Many in the room had never seen the Did you know video and are shocked by the statistics.His message is that technology is a tool and how do we address these digital natives - how do we get a handle on it. Bullying/Cyber bullying is a big issue and we need to be watchful. Driving while texting - go to Oprah's website and take a pledge to not text and drive. Stealing - downloading illegally.95% of all songs downloaded last year were not paid for.Copyright - stealing images/text. What do we do?Do we have technology control the user?Do we use Public Service announcements?How do weaddress these issues. Mike Ribble's book:"Digital Citizenship in Schools" 4 stage model - the process of thinking about technolgy - not every technology's goal was education.It is worse to have a plan and not complete it than not having a plan at all. [|www.Digitalcitizenship.org][|www.digitalcitizenship.net] Building a scalable curriculum for teaching students about teachnology.Leah asks - has he not heard of iSafe?He seems to be working to reinvent what is already out there and available. I asked how his curriculum (that he sells, of course) compares to the iSafe curriculum and he said that his is much braoder and that iSafe only focuses on the internet. PBS.org - "growing up on line""digital Report to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration - "Youth Safety on a Living Internet" June 4, 2010 ISTE - Digital Citizenship for Teachers and Students PBS Frontline - Digital Nation Funding - USAC (e-Rate) Digiparent.ning.com - flat classroom peeps