digital+citizenship

What is digital citizenship? According to Wikipedia, it is the ability to locate, organize, understand, evaluate and create information using digital technology.

Digital Citizenship Education Free curriculum units - The Digital Citizenship and Creative Content program is a free, turnkey instructional program. The goal is to create an awareness of the rights connected with creative content. Because only through education can students gain an understanding of the relevance of and a personal respect for creative rights and grow to become good digital citizens.

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Heartland AEA Digital Citizenship This wiki is based on the nine principles of digital citizenship explored in the book //Digital Citizenship in Schools// by Mike Ribble and Gerald Bailey. A resource page for each principle - digital communications, digital commerce, digital etiquette - defines the principle and offers examples of appropriate and inappropriate behavior as well as more in-depth scenarios. In addition, there are a number of handouts and links such as a classroom blog rubric and an article on acceptable use policies for school Internet systems.

Digi Teen - online community Digit Teen is an online community for students studying digital citizenship. An outgrowth of the Flat Classroom Project, eight schools from around the world participated in fall 2009. Students showed their understanding of a particular subtopic of digital citizenship, such as digital health and wellness, by posting reflective blog posts, editing a wiki and uploading videos about their subtopic. On the forums, teachers and students discussed digital literacy and students got to know their classmates from different parts of the world.

Digital Literacy Toolkit This resource from the Center for Children and Technology was started on the premise that while multimedia authoring is becoming an increasingly popular classroom activity, educators and students often lack the ability to evaluate a multimedia project's effectiveness. The interactive site allows students and teachers to test their authoring skills with activities such as picking the perfect soundscape to match an image or determining if an image is used as opinion or evidence.

SOURCE: Techniques, February 2010 www.acteonline.org