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Spark Change: A book taking (digital) citizenship to a new level

October 22, 2019 By Anne 8 Comments

Spark Change book cover

Olivia Van Ledtje, just now 12, tells the story of giving a talk in a western Massachusetts elementary school auditorium that was packed with students and teachers from three school communities – when she was 10. She writes that, after her talk, the students wanted to ask “loads of one-of-a-kind kid questions – the kind I can never feel fully prepared to answer. “Luckily, the one-of-a-kind … [Read more...] about Spark Change: A book taking (digital) citizenship to a new level

Filed Under: childrens rights, kids, Literacy & Citizenship, Research, School & Tech, students, Youth Tagged With: Amanda Third, Cynthia Merrill, digital citizenship, ISTE, Kate DiCamillo, Kristen Mattson, Lucas Walsh, Maori, Nathan Fisk, Olivia Van Ledtje, Philippa Collin, Rosalyn Black

So where are we with ‘digital citizenship’ now?

November 2, 2018 By Anne 1 Comment

Safety Summit panel

This week I had the privilege of participating in a panel discussion in Delhi at Facebook's South Asia Safety Summit with YLAC India (Young Leaders for Active Citizenship). YLAC works "to increase the participation of young people in the democratic process and build their capacity to lead change," using social media as their platform. That is digital citizenship, right? Isn't it necessarily … [Read more...] about So where are we with ‘digital citizenship’ now?

Filed Under: childrens rights, Literacy & Citizenship, Youth Tagged With: Aparajita Bharti, Ilene Berson, Ioanna Noula, ISTE, Kristen Mattson, LSE, Media Policy Project, Michael Berson, Richard Culatta, UNCRC, YLAC

Signs of serious progress for digital citizenship

July 4, 2018 By Anne 1 Comment

Audience at ISTE 2018

THIS JUST IN: In a historic development for the Internet and its users under 18, the Council of Europe today adopted a Recommendation – a comprehensive set of guidelines to European Union member states – for upholding children's rights in digital environments, their rights as digital citizens. "How to better protect and empower children as rights-holders... is at the core of the new … [Read more...] about Signs of serious progress for digital citizenship

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship, Research Tagged With: Brian O'Neill, Bronwyn Stuckey, Carrie James, CCRC, Eva Lievens, ISTE, John Carr, Kristen Mattson, Lisa Jones, Project Zero, Richard Culatta, Sharon McLaughlin, Sonia Livingstone, Valerie Verdoodt

Prensky’s thoughts for 21st-century teachers

August 10, 2012 By Anne 2 Comments

Marc Prensky, who coined the term "digital natives" and a few years ago moved on to write about digital wisdom, called on educators to show the courage to do what "they know is right" and wisely embrace the technology that will increasingly help all of us, including students, solve the world's complex problems. This was in his 10-min. portion of a collective keynote at this summer's International … [Read more...] about Prensky’s thoughts for 21st-century teachers

Filed Under: School & Tech Tagged With: digital natives, digital wisdom, education technology, ISTE, Marc Prensky, teaching

Next step: Crowd-source digital citizenship

July 27, 2011 By Anne 4 Comments

I question it even as I'm preparing for talks on the subject in several countries this coming fall…. The term "digital citizenship" is heard more and more in educational and online-safety circles. The subject is now part of the International Society for Technology in Education's national educational technology standards, and ISTE is starting a National Council for its promotion. Elements of it are … [Read more...] about Next step: Crowd-source digital citizenship

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship Tagged With: Amanda Third, and Wellbeing, Cooperative Research Centre for Young People, David Warlick, digital citizenship, ISTE, online safety, OSTWG, Philippa Collin, technology

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IMPORTANT RESOURCES

Our (DIGITAL) PARENTING BASICS: Safety + Social
NAMLE, the National Association for Media Literacy Education
CASEL.org & the 5 core social-emotional competencies of SEL
Center for Democracy & Technology
Center for Innovative Public Health Research
Childnet International
Committee for Children
Congressional Internet Caucus Academy
ConnectSafely.org
Control Shift: a pivotal book for Internet safety
Crimes Against Children Research Center
Crisis Textline
Cyber Civil Rights Initiative's Revenge Porn Crisis Line
Cyberwise.org
danah boyd's blog and book about networked youth
Disconnected, Carrie James's book on digital ethics
FOSI.org's Good Digital Parenting
The research of Global Kids Online
The Good Project at Harvard's School of Education
If you watch nothing else: "Parenting in a Digital Age" TED Talk by Prof. Sonia Livingstone
The International Bullying Prevention Association
Let Grow Foundation
Making Caring Common
Raising Digital Natives, author Devorah Heitner's site
Renee Hobbs at the Media Education Lab
MediaSmarts.ca
The New Media Literacies
Report of the Aspen Task Force on Learning & the Internet and our guide to Creating Trusted Learning Environments
The Ruler Approach to social-emotional learning (Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence)
Sources of Strength
"Young & Online: Perspectives on life in a digital age" from young people in 26 countries (via UNICEF)
"Youth Safety on a Living Internet": 2010 report of the Online Safety & Technology Working Group (and my post about it)

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