21st Century Literacy | In Print Turning Students into Good Digital Citizens 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? Video Exclusive: Cultural anthropologist Michael Wesch at Kansas State University discusses the tools today's students need to be good digital citizens.
This article gives me pause to think as we create our digital workshop for parents, what are the positives of being a digital citizen? How does that impact their future as both students and young adults?
I've decided to take my students on a fun-filled blogging journey for the last few weeks of school. In some ways I think I might be crazy trying to do this in such little time, but my guts are telling me to, "Just do it!" I'm glad I listened!
We see this a lot with educational spaces. They are free (so teachers are apt to try them to save money that they don't have in their classroom budget) but then forget what they are trading: the eyes of their students, and advertising dollars.
we need to be able to see the damage we are causing as a first step toward solving it. Words, like the ones you are reading now, often are not enough.
But I also like to think that, as a teacher, direct lessons around privacy and digital lives can make a difference, if not immediate, then long-term. I remain hopeful of that.
First, our collective move away from open standards and decentralisation means that choosing to use a different service involves significant social impact. Second, even if an alternative does rear its head, the ending is all-too-familiar: it is acquired and swallowed by one of the huge incumbents
Each subsidiary company is branded differently, so we often forget where all the data streams are ultimately heading.
Again, another teaching moment that often gets lost. What about teaching how to read "terms of service" agreements? Eh?
For the next generation, will they know the difference between the Internet and Google or Facebook? Will they, to put it bluntly, know the difference between a public good and a private company?