With all lessons, but particularly citizenship, we must first help students regulate, be able to relate to them and then we can reason with them. (The three R's)
eTwinning is the community for schools in Europe. The project "Are you ready to live in the 21st century?" embeds digital citizenship across all subjects. Special because children across Europe (with many different mother tongues) collaborate.
"When we are active online we are creating our own digital footprints. This area of the website will help you understand what that means and will link you to tools and resources for the ethical use of online media."
This Library Learning Commons provides good information on Digital Conduct, Copyright and more
This site is comparable to the Australian cybersmart.gov.au site. It supports and is explicit in its content and could easily be embedded into any curriculum or policy where digital citizenship is being explored.
Updates from digital citizenship guru Mike Ribble.
He then added the following details to the S3 framework elements:
■ Safe (Protect Yourself / Protect Others)
■ Savvy (Educate Yourself / Educate Others)
■ Social (Respect Yourself / Respect Others)
I think what we're collectively, globally, realizing is that digital citizenship actually brings youth back into the online-safety discussion (if they were ever really there). It's about empowerment as much as protection (yes, it's protective too – see this). So it's more relevant to and respectful of them as active agents for their own, their friends', and their online communities' good.
But there still isn't complete consensus on its definition.
digital citizenship needs at least to drive the youth-online-safety discussion.
Young people will be safer online when they see that they can make a difference online and when their agency is acknowledged, respected, and guided by the adults in their lives.
You're inundated with new contracts, Terms of Service, privacy policies, and disclaimers for every new service you use, but reading them all is next to impossible for a normal human being. To help solve this problem, we've looked at the language of most Terms of Service agreements to come up with the main words and sections everyone should pay attention to.
Another article for gauging where schools, educators' pedagogies sit in relation to using technologies. Do we offer students opportunities to develop good citizenship behaviours using technologies? Is education and learning in a rut in some schools? A real thought provoking article?
Some interesting thoughts about a continuum of access to technologies. A simple way to think about where schools are at in order to consider issues such as digital divide, access and digital citizenship.