This document discusses digital citizenship and its importance. It outlines five elements of digital citizenship: (1) participation or civic engagement, (2) rights and responsibilities, (3) norms of behavior, (4) a sense of belonging, and (5) literacies including digital, media, and social literacy. It recommends that digital citizenship instruction should be a national priority and discusses how digital citizenship instruction can provide students with skills like safety and support of community, self-actualization and rights of citizenship, power to enact positive social change, literacy, and practice in collaborative problem solving.

1. Inspired
Digital Citizenship
Anne Collier
Co-director, ConnectSafely.org
Founder & writer, NetFamilyNews.org

2. This is the Internet now
HuffingtonPost.com

3. NOT THIS!

4. • 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

5. 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…”

6. The rise of digital
citizenship
Hugo A. Quintero G.

7. “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

8. Digital citizenship instruction as a national priority
RECOMMENDED TO CONGRESS

9. SAFETY IN SOCIAL NETWORKS

10. Rights are exercised online too.

12. The pillars of
citizenship
learning
Photo by Julian Turner
• Infrastructure
• Agency
• Practice
• Guidance

13. Five elements
of digital citizenship
• Participation or “civic engagement”
• Rights and responsibilities
• Norms of behavior ("good citizenship”)
• A sense of belonging (membership)
• Literacies: digital, media, social

14. SOCIAL
LITERACY
MEDIA
LITERACY
DIGITAL LITERACY
EACH LEG INDISPENSABLE

15. 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

16. Consequential media, powerful users

17. 5th grade teacher writes about her
students’ ‘Digital Citizenship Minute’
Digital citizenship tends to unfold…

18. Our Space:
Being a Responsible Citizen of the Digital World
(great free curriculum from USC and Harvard)

19. Henry Jenkins

20. • 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?

21. WHAT INSPIRES
autonomy, mastery…

22. …RELATEDNESS

23. Thank you!
Anne Collier
anne@connectsafely.org
NetFamilyNews.org