inspired digital citizenship: the essential elements
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The kind of digital citizenship that fosters agency, engagement, literacy and empowerment in online youthTRANSCRIPT
Inspired Digital Citizenship
Anne CollierCo-director, ConnectSafely.org
Founder & writer, NetFamilyNews.org
This is the Internet now
HuffingtonPost.com
NOT THIS!
• Hanging out – casual
socializing
• Messing around – social
tinkering, with info, ideas,
media, tech
• Geeking out – professional
tech & media use, like that of
artists, musicians, code
writers, videographers
Social networking’s progression
In participatory media, we all – users, governments, corporations – find ourselves signatories to a
new social contract drawn up by the media shift.
“By using this, you consent…”
The rise of digital citizenship
Hugo A. Quintero G.
“If the notion of digital citizenship in
policy discourse is to have traction with
its constituents and prove effective, it is
vital that our understanding and use of
the term be directly informed by young
people’s values and insights.”
--Third & Strider, Univ. of Western Sydney
No citizenship without…the citizens
Digital citizenship instruction as a national priority
RECOMMENDED TO CONGRESS
SAFETY IN SOCIAL NETWORKS
Rights are exercised online too.
…INTO SCHOOL
GET THE ‘POOL’
The pillars of citizenship
learning
Photo by Julian Turner
• Infrastructure
• Agency
• Practice
• Guidance
Five elementsof digital citizenship
• Participation or “civic engagement”
• Rights and responsibilities
• Norms of behavior ("good citizenship”)
• A sense of belonging (membership)
• Literacies: digital, media, social
SOCIALLITERACY
MEDIALITERACY
DIGITAL LITERACY
EACH LEG INDISPENSABLE
Some of the literacies from social media use
• Socially and materially distributed cognition
• Collective intelligence
• Collaborative problem-solving
• Computational thinking
• Reciprocal apprenticeship
• Appropriation
• Transmedia navigation
Consequential media, powerful users
5th grade teacher writes about her students’ ‘Digital Citizenship Minute’
Digital citizenship tends to unfold…
Our Space: Being a Responsible Citizen of the Digital World(great free curriculum from USC and Harvard)
Henry Jenkins
• The safety & support of community• Self-actualization & the rights of citizenship• Power – as agents for the social good• The safety & efficacy of digital, media, and
social literacy• Practice in the collaborative problem-solving
their futures will demand• Opportunities to co-create the social norms
of our networked media & world• Preparation for success, leadership
What’s in it for the citizens?
WHAT INSPIRESautonomy, mastery…
…RELATEDNESS
