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the netvibes page for The Advocates for Digital Citizenship group

Come one, come all! Please check out the group and join - we can all make a difference here if we work together.

Who are we? This is a grassroots efforts started by educators to promote the active instruction of students, parents, and administrators on topics concerning digital citizenship, safety, and success. We want to mobilize ONLINE but take our actions OFFLINE into our own communities and schools. We're a group sick of talking about it and ready to DO something.

The company that will be working with us for the ad4dcss project to make available a course for parents, teachers, and teens about digital citizenship. A growing group of volunteers is picking up to make this happen.

The company working with the Advocates for Digital Citizenship, Safety and Success project to help make a course available.

Great lesson plan that ties in social studies curriculum with 21st century learning and digital citizenship. Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products using Web 2.0 technologies, including Voice Thread.

Looking for games online that might help students learn important cybersafety concepts? Add this collection from around the world to your digital citizenship training efforts.

9 themes of digital citizenship from Mike Ribble's new website.

9 themes of digital citizenship

Digital citizenship can be defined as the norms of appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to technology use.

Mike Ribble, author of Digital Citizenship in Schools, spent some time with Digiteen teachers and students. I was out of town but am listening to this today.

Content filters and firewalls are great for keeping kids away from pornography, as required by the Children's Internet Protection Act, or preventing them from updating their Facebook status during class. But the same filters can stop teachers from accessing cutting-edge widgets and digital materials that have enormous potential for expanding learning.

This wiki was created as part of a U of Manitoba class by a group of classroom teachers IIt has a large number of resources to help clasroom teachers integrate the teaching of digital citizenship in their curricula including links to articles, websites on digital citizenshi, embedded videos, and more. J. Evans

Generally adults help young people learn to drive safely before giving them car keys and turning them loose on the streets of the world. Young people also need guidance and adult assistance to learn how to safely navigate the virtual environments of the 21st Century. Schools must be proactive, rather than merely defensive, in helping students acquire the skills of digital citizenship needed today and in the future. Simply banning read/write web tools on school networks is an inadequate response: Educators must strive to learn alongside students and parents how these technologies can be safely and powerfully used to communicate and collaborate.

Free ebook for teens on digital citizenship and being safe online.

An awesome PInterest Board by edutopia with resources you can use for Digital Learning Day. This is an excellent example of how you can use Pinterest Boards to share research and best practices.

Digital Learning Day is February 5. Here are resources and how you can celebrate this in your school this week. There will be many live seminars and webinars online as well as live broadcasts. Join in!

It is unfortunate that controversy is surrounding autism and yet it is something misunderstood by many. Here is an article on Liz Ditz's blog going back to an issue that arose in December when she quoted a person's Facebook who then denied the posting and accused Liz of hacking the account and writing the comments herself. I am not on the inside of this but am watching as the outcome has implications for my own thoughts of digital citizenship. I am just saddened any time a person is taken of a mission to help others because of flame wars and it doesn't look like this one is going to stop soon. All I know is I have been reading Liz's blog for quite some time and although I don't know her personally, I find the charges leveled against her doubtful from what I do know.

Two studies were released in an attempt to "quantify the benefits of mobile technology in education and the infrastructure needed..." In these students students had tablets and Internet access at home and at school. Of course, I'm not sure that it is tablet computers that give benefits, Internet access, cloud computing, or a combination, but I'm sure these studies will be touted by many far and wide. Of course, remember if they had strapped the tablets to the kid''s back and hadn't used them - they would have had lower scores. All improvement is all in how technology is being USED to teach. "The studies put Android tablets in the hands of students and their teachers in two schools - eighth-graders at Stone Middle School in Fairfax County Public Schools and fifth-graders at Falconer Elementary School in Chicago Public Schools - and provided wireless access to the students both in school and away from school. (The devices were HTC Evo tablets.) Researchers then followed the students' activities over the course of a year, with the aim of evaluating "how access to these devices for communication with teachers and classmates increases comfort with technology, extends the learning day, and allows students to develop digital citizenship skills within a safe and secure learning environment.""

This website is a "reputation builder" for kids of all ages. When a child is in K-12, the parent has their account attached but then, the child can take it public after that point. This is a "reputation builder" for kids. Many students in Florida are already using this with their parents. This may be an option for efolio building where parents are involved. Worth a look for those working with digital citizenship and to share with parents.

Excellent Digital Citizenship Resource for parents, students, and teachers