Digital Citizenship in Schools

What makes you such a good digizen? Digital citizenship isn't just about recognising and dealing with online hazards. It's about building safe spaces and communities, understanding how to manage personal information, and about being internet savvy.

A 2-min vignette from Steve Wheeler on Future learning environments: professional, powerful and personal.

The 21st Century Citizenship Guide outlines a vision of citizenship that encompasses informed, engaged and active practices in three dimensions of citizenship-civic, global and digital. The different dimensions of citizenship will be explored, along with recommendations on actions that parents, local, and national policymakers can take to make sure that all students are able to develop into true 21st century citizens.

Links to interesting resources from the Global Digital Citizen Foundation blog

Teen, Jake Swayze shares his thoughts about young people and the use of social media at TEDxSouthPasadenaHigh

Interesting infographic and information about the ISTE Digital Citizenship PLN.

An interesting model for defining digital literacy.

Hague, C. and Payton, S. (2010). Digital Literacy Across the Curriculum (Futurelab Handbook). Bristol: Futurelab.

Updated link for Skype in the classroom

Australian government website

An Australian perspective with statistics written October 2014

Common Sense Media for students!

Common Sense Media portal for Digital Citizenship curriculum resources

Teens share a wide range of information about themselves on social media sites;1 indeed the sites themselves are designed to encourage the sharing of information and the expansion of networks. However, few teens embrace a fully public approach to social media. Instead, they take an array of steps to restrict and prune their profiles, and their patterns of reputation management on social media vary greatly according to their gender and network size. These are among the key findings from a new report based on a survey of 802 teens that examines teens' privacy management on social media sites

Older research but interesting to read.