Digital Citizenship in Schools

An interesting 'role play' putting teachers in the mode of solving a digital citizenship problem.

What are teachers doing to support online learning both locally and globally? When interacting and collaborating with others beyond the immediate classroom, what are expected protocols or norms of behavior, and what are the essential understandings needed to forge working relationships between learners? Julie Lindsay, an education leader in digital technology, online learning, and curriculum across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, and author of the new book, The Global Educator: Leveraging Technology for Collaborative Learning and Teaching, explores. Please also join us on Twitter next Thursday, July 28, for a special #globaledchat with Julie Lindsay on her new book!

A policy brief regarding recommendations for family, student use of digital media.

Presentation material from Dean Shareski at ISTE 2016

Elana Leoni Director of Social Media Strategy and Marketing @Edutopia, edcamp organizer Author's Note: Thanks to Joe Manko, Liberty Elementary School principal, for inspiring this blog post during an impromptu edcamp at #SXSWEdu this year. For an example of a school trying to create a connected culture through Twitter, follow Liberty Elementary's hashtag and jump into the conversation.

Adelaide educator Christine Haynes shares ideas about digital citizenship

Part of a series of case studies produced by Digital Promise examining the work of members in our League of Innovative Schools. Click here for more info on the League. To stay up to date on future case studies, sign up for our email newsletter.

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

Australia is following the trend in other countries to have students bring their own laptops and tablets to use at school but while the trend has gathered ...

Teacher professional development resources collated by iKeepsafe for digital citizenship

"Full on transformation can only be fueled by a deep understanding of how significantly out of step the school experience has become with the real world. If we're honest, we know we've always been lacking in that regard. But there's little question that the gap between school learning and life learning has become wider and more acute as the Web and mobile technologies continue to evolve as learning opportunities."

Digital Citizenship is a suite of resources for students to support safe online behaviour. This resource includes game-based learning, lessons, videos, and parent and teacher support materials.

Quick survey - how many teachers know of this site?

"WeChat is just the latest platform that intermediates interactions between teachers, parents, students," says Danah Boyd, a Microsoft researcher who studies social media and the author of It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens. "No intervention around the technology will make any difference if the pressure-cooker culture doesn't change."

Mike Ribble and Susan Bearden speak about digital citizenship with Dr. Greg Goins on the The Goin' Digital Show. Running time 1 hour

Shares a set of principles around connected learning

Funny ABC episode looking at the do's and don'ts of using devices and social media.

The use of WeChat as a tool to build a community of learning is featured in this post via an interview with Head of Elementary at Beijing BISS International School.

QuadBlogging builds writing skills and digital and global citizenship skills. Digital citizenship beyond the classroom.