Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Mike Ribble, director of Technology from Manhattan-Ogden School District in Kansas, is starting his session on digital citizenship, using the NETS standard. His opening quote in from the movie "Full Disclosure" with the quote "May you live in interesting times." Technology opens so many possibilities but also so many issues. NETS*Standard 5 in-a-nutshell definition: "The norms appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to technology use." Full blown: Students understand human, cultural, and societal issues related to technology and practice legal ethical behavior. Why is digital citizenship important? (Side trip into Michael Wesch's video A Vision of Students Today. What are the issues?:

   
• providing tools without explaining how to use them
   
• between two generations - one that has watched the growth of technology and one that has not known a world without digital opportunities (Prensky)
   
• Setting a foundation for the future

Key Questions for today's session:

   
• What are the issues related to Digital Citizenship?
     
  • digital access
     
  • digital commerce
     
  • digital communication
     
  • digital literacy
     
  • digital security
     
  • digital etiquette
     
  • digital rights and responsibilities
     
  • digital law
     
  • digital health and welfare
   
• How are we going to deal with them?
     
  • to understand Digital Citizenship we need to be able to see all the parts (Peter Senge, 1990)
     
  • working with AUPs - how can we turn them from negative phrasing to positive? (Jordan School District, Jordan Utah video on students powering down for school).  How do we make it clear to students what's appropriate and what's not appropriate. Considering that first graders are showing up to school with cell phones, we have to start in kindergarten.
  
  

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