Digital Citizenship in Schools

"Being a teenager in 2015 is very different than it was in 1995. While most teenagers spent their free time watching a little TV in the 90s, there were far fewer screens to put in front of their faces. A social network was the group of friends you hung out with at school. Now, things have changed. Technology has opened all kinds of new things to teens, some good and some bad. So just how as being a teenager changed from the 90s? Are things better or worse? Take a look at the infographic below from TeenSafe that presents true facts about teens and media and decide for yourself."

" Tyler Joseph for Trend Micro's What's Your Story Contest." What's Your Story is a yearly video contest for young people to highlight creative, impactful, safe and responsible ways to use the Internet. This one is fantastic and would work quite well at my school ... this type of spoken 'poetry' !

Perceptive blog post by Australian educator Edna Sackson.

Edna Sackson

"It sounds like the stuff of sci-fi nightmares - a stranger hacking your baby cam and shouting abuse at your toddler. Someone controlling your home's lights and power points via a system that should only respond to your smartphone. Criminals watching you and your family from your smart TV without your knowledge. But each of these has already happened, and mark the beginning of a cyber crime wave threatening business, governments and individuals around the world. The number of smart devices being connected online in what's called the "Internet of Things" will rocket from 13 billion to an estimated 50 billion by 2020. The problem, says LA security consultant Marc Goodman, is that they're all hackable."

Excellent slideshow by @langwitches sharing new curriculum objectives to support globally connected learning.

Excellent and comprehensive collection of tools for online collaboration.

You will love this infographic to support Andrew Churches Digital Blooms Taxonomy

An interactive guide worth taking a look at.

Important tips from globaldigitalcitizen.org to support online collaborative work amongst students. I see this applied to middle and high school as well as higher education.

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.

A Sydney comic artist reinterprets Nam Le's The Boat for the digital age.

"Teachers in Cherokee County Schools feel it is vitally important to teach children about the issues our digital world presents as we use technology in the classroom. But teachers cannot do it alone, parents can reinforce what students learn in school by practicing safe Internet use at home. These web resources will help you learn more about being a good digital citizen and how to keep children safe online."

"Trolling is just for kids, right? Wrong. Trolling is always very bad manners, but when it goes too far it can easily tip over the edge into something much nastier, and cause a huge amount of distress. "

A look at how young people are using new technologies to communicate and share.