The New Zealand teachers council has developed a useful and applicable resource for social media and education. http://www.teachersandsocialmedia.co.nz/ The guidelines for teachers are well considered and developed by an informed and realistic group of people. This fits with the model of digital citizenship that we use – http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/The+Digital+Citizen: Looking after yourself – respect and protect [...]
Education Alberta (Canada) has published a Development guide for Digital Citizenship Policy. This is an extensive document which includes some of my work and that of my esteemed colleague Dr Jason Ohler. This is a great resource and well worth downloading and working through. It is about 80+ pages so you do need to put [...]
I have updated the Senior students Digital citizenship agreement. I have added in two elements into: Protecting others – I will moderate unacceptable materials and conversations Respecting Intellectual property – I will acknowledge primary sources Digital Citizenship 1.2
Global Digital Citizenship is a critical element of any teaching program at any level. Our students are connected. Irrespective of the age of the student they are wired. We are seeing devices reducing in cost, increasing in availability and entering most classrooms and almost every school. If you ask a students a question there first [...]
Thanks for the feedback and the comments – I have updated the JS guidelines and invite comments and suggestions. JS internet-computer use guide Computers at school When we aren’t at school we use computers for lots of reasons. When we are at school, we use computers, ipads, ipods, the internet, printers or cell phones for [...]
I am working on Junior School version of the digital citizenship materials. I would love comments and suggestions on this rework of some earlier stuff I put together. Junior School Computer use Guidelines as a PDF JS internet-computer use guide (PDF) Computers at school We come to school to learn. Here at school, we have computers [...]
We are fortunate that our email system is actually a complete communication and collaboration package. At the flick of a switch (well actually the tick of a tick box) each and every students (or selected groups) can have a personal website that included podcasting, calendar, file sharing, blogs as well as traditional webpages. But with [...]
Social networks provide huge opportunities for education but can potentially have devasting consequences as well. As classroom teachers we have a set of processes we use to keep ourselves and our students safe. We keep our conversations appropriate. You can not divorce yourself from your students lives but you do keep a respectful distance. We [...]
Over the last two weeks I have been presenting the Digital Citizen to the year 11 and 13 students at school. It has been an interesting and enlightening experience. Part of the process has been discussing with then the “code of ethics”, the six facets of the digital citizen and taking there feedback on it. [...]
