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This is a great article because it provides many practical resources to help teachers get started in connecting their classes to other students around the world. it also includes a list of resources to help facilitate this digital communication and collaboration. There are links to these resources for further information.

Discusses the origin of the 13+ age restriction for social media (COPPA applicable in the USA) and what it means for parents in an Australian context

Many professional societies, including the American Association of School Librarians (AASL), the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), and the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), provide standards and goals for the implementation of technology in learning. These standards include information literacy, collaboration, communication, and digital citizenship, among others. This article also focuses on digital citizenship. In additional to providing standards and behaviors, it provides a structure for addressing behaviors when they affect students and the school community.

This is not so much about digital citizenship but I thought that it might be useful resource for digital resourcers to have in their bookmarks.

This article deals with BYOD in the workplace but I think many of the same issues could apply in the school setting.

Some of you may have seen this item discussed on the OZTL_Net. The edudemic page is about motivation but it explains how technology such as ipads can be used as an extension of Bloom's Taxonomy to provide choice and challenge for your students. The page has links to a Ted talk that explains the "padagogy" at the heart of this program.

An embarrassing Twitter hack caused a plunge in the markets and revealed the weakness in our reliance on technology. AAP it has been a bad couple of weeks for social media and Twitter in particular.

"The evolution of education, particularly as filtered through the prism of emerging technology and new media, is something we're keenly interested in and something of increasing importance to society at large. Now, from authors Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown comes a powerful and refreshing effort to approach the subject with equal parts insight, imagination and optimism, rather than the techno-dystopian views today's cultural pundits tend to throw our way." A really useful post that introduces the book New culture of Learning, and includes two good videos and links to the book website.

Article based around material from my new book - 'The Global Educator' published by ISTE and Hawker Brownlow

""Digital citizenship" is an umbrella term that covers a whole host of important issues. Broadly, it's the guidelines for responsible, appropriate behavior when one is using technology. But specifically, it can cover anything from "netiquette" to cyberbullying; technology access and the digital divide; online safety and privacy; copyright, plagiarism, and digital law, and more. In fact, some programs that teach digital citizenship have outlined no less than nine elements that intersect to inform a well-equipped digital citizen. it's an overwhelming array of skills to be taught and topics to explore."

VideoAmy explores the topic of digital citizenship with this playlist of videos on the importance of online safety, manners, privacy, and responsibility.

This quiz is for students who have discussed digital citizenship and read the research written by Mike Ribble. The questions are right out of his research for his paper. it provides definitions of terms and then checks students knowledge - very engaging and useful.

"In today's world of near-ubiquitous connectivity, in which ordinary people have almost instantaneous access to unlimited stores of information and the ability to interact with anyone, anywhere, anytime, what does it mean to be an effective citizen? What skills and knowledge do our students need to participate fully in a world transformed by technology? What role should our schools play in developing effective digital citizens? "

Turn students into question marks!

Presentation to Middle School, and introducing Digital Citizenship.

This YouTube video on Creative Commons licensing was recommended on the OZTL_Net. It's from New Zealand. It explains the different types of Creative Commons Licenses in a clear manner wIth excellent animation.

GenYes and TechYes - new website looks great! Student leaders providing solution for technology use within schools to support project-based learning, tech integration.

It would be great to see students involved in planning and managing how technology should be used in their learning. Young people already have many of the skills needed to use new technologies. They would be no doubt enthusiastic about being taking a leading role in how these would be used in their learning.

"Mobile phone tracking techniques are becoming more commonplace. Waste bins target ads. Shopping centres follow customers. Spooks follow airport passengers. Will the Privacy Act's new definition of personal information provide enhanced protections against mobile phone tracking? Not really. Here's why."

This is an interesting and challenging examination of learning in the three ages of information by Bill Rankin. It looks at the role of information in learning and in shaping culture through Western history and the effect that access to information has had on education. I don't agree wIth everything that Bill says but he is affirming of the continuing role of teachers and librarians in this third information age.

"It's Not Paranoia: The Internet Knows More Than You Think"

Interdependence of people and cultures in the global society of the twenty-first century means all citizens of the world must pay greater attention to intercultural communication and the challenges it brings. Intercultural communication is the communication between people from different cultures.