NetFamilyNews.orgI’m sure we’re all pretty aware that the Internet and social media are global, but do we think enough about how digital citizenship has to be global too, then – how, by definition, it’s more a process than a static concept that can be taught? “Digital citizens” of all ages all over the world are [...]
Digital literacy educator Diana Graber is crowdsourcing a media literacy curriculum for 8th-graders at Journey School in southern California. It’s Year 3 of the school’s CyberCivics program that Diana’s building, she writes in the CyberWise blog. Reading her resource-rich post got me thinking about all I’ve learned about digital literacy, media literacy, and social literacy [...]
There is little consensus on the definition of “digital literacy.” One participant on a panel about it here at a Safer Internet Day conference in Moscow threw everything into the definition – media literacy, online safety, computer literacy, etc. Wikipedia basically defines it as “the ability to locate, organize, understand, evaluate, and analyze information using [...]
“The Internet is where children are growing up,” the New York Times reports, citing Kaiser Family Foundation research suggesting that they’re online or interacting with digital media just about every hour they’re not asleep or in school. So it follows that they really need to learn what it means to be good people online as [...]
Connecticut-based youth officer Det. Frank Dannahey, valuable member of ConnectSafely.org’s advisory board, sent me some excellent feedback on that last post, along the lines of: what about some reference to “digital”?! Minor oversight ;-) . So added two more lines to the definition: Critical thinking and ethical choicesaboutthe content and impactononeself, others, and one’s communityofwhat [...]
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