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Contains an exclusive video interview with cultural anthropologist Michael Wesh in which he discusses the tools today's students need to be good digital citizens.

""One of the challenges and important priorities for K-12 today has to be broadening our understanding of what it means to be a digital citizen," says Joseph Kahne, Davidson professor of education at Mills College in Oakland, CA, and chairman of the MacArthur Network on Youth and Participatory Politics, "so that we're talking about young people as producers and managers of information and perspectives, and not simply as people we need to keep safe and civil.""

Schools have always been charged with the task of producing good citizens. But how has our definition of a "good citizen" changed over the ages?

"Psychology paper finds Facebook and other social media offer platform for obsessions with self-image and shallow friendships"

Need to find the right balance with any social media

"The following are excerpts from from "Kids Closer Up: Playing, Learning, and Growing with Digital Media" by Lori Takeuchi, International Journal of Learning and Media, Spring 2011, Vol. 3, No. 2, Pages 37-59. To protect the children's identities, all names are pseudonyms, and location details have been altered."