Transcript What makes a successful digital citizen?

What makes a successful
digital citizen?
Allison Allen
Director, Outstream Consulting
Trustee, Naace Board of Management
Towards tomorrow's successful digital citizens: A policy think tank
London Knowledge Lab
February 2015
Digital
Citizencurriculum;
- A Definition?
English
computing
No Digital Citizenship, some Digital Literacy /
e-safety
“Digital
citizenship
“Trying to be kind
begins the first
time
any
KS4 – “understand
how
changes
in
and help”
child
participates
inincluding
any
technology
affect
safety,
English
secondary
phase teacher
electronic
function.”
new ways
to protect
their online
(American School)
privacy and identity, and how to
report a range of concerns”
April 16
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Source: George Couros via Pinterest
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This is the Internet now
Digital
Citizenship
‘Norms’
Control
v agency?
1. Student Learning and
2. Student Environment
3. Student Life Outside
Academic
Performance
and Behaviour
School
 Control
in a user-driven,
mobile media environment?

Digital
Security
Inconsequential
use
-> feeling of powerlessness ->
Digital Access
& Safety
hopelessness ->greater risk

Digital Law
[Dr. Ian Rivers, Brunel University]
Agency,
stakeholder, citizenship -> empowerment
->
Digital
Digital Access
Communication
greater safety [Harvard]
Digital
Digital
Citizenship
suggests active, ethical engagement
Literacy
Commerce
[Adapted from Anne Collier Co-director, ConnectSafely.org]
cannibaliczombie.deviantart.com
Digital Rights &
Responsibilities
01/04/2016
Allison Allen
Digital Etiquette
Outstream Consulting
Adapted from: Digital Citizenship in Schools: Mike Ribble & Gerald Bailey
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Reflection
Net neutrality?
No citizenship withoutDigital
therights?
citizens
Global citizenship?
“If the notion of digital citizenship
in policy
discourse is to have traction with
its constituents
Personal responsibility?
and prove effective, it is vital that our
Digital
citizenship?
understanding and use of the
term
be directly
informed by young people’s values
insights.”
Altruisticand
service?
Environmental
stewardship?
[Third & Strider,
Univ. of Western
Sydney]
April 16
“The central task of citizenship
is learning how
to be good to one another.”
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[A.J. Patrick Liszkiewicz]
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