This document discusses developing a digital citizenship program for schools. It begins by asking who needs digital citizenship education and why they need educating. It notes some issues students face online like cyberbullying, inappropriate images, and gaming and social media addiction.
It then discusses what responsibility schools and teachers have to address these issues. The document outlines steps schools can take to develop a digital citizenship program, including forming a team, conducting surveys, developing policies, and choosing a framework. It provides examples of frameworks like Mike Ribble's Digital Compass and the ISTE NETS standards.
The document also discusses resources available, including lesson plans, units, and scope and sequence documents from groups like Common Sense Media. It emphasizes using a
3. Who needs
digital citizenship
education?
Image from Andresphotos, PhotoDune
4. 5 March 2010
South Korean police have arrested a couple for starving their three-
month-old daughter to death while they devoted hours to playing a
computer game that involved raising a virtual character of a young
girl.
The 41-year-old man and 25-year-old woman, who met through a
chat website, reportedly left their infant unattended while they went
to internet cafes. They only occasionally dropped by to feed her
powdered milk.
5. A 22-year-old Korean man was charged last month with murdering his mother
because she nagged him for spending too much time playing games. After killing
her the man went to a nearby internet cafe and continued with his game, said
officials.
22 February 2011 A Chinese man has died after a three-day online gaming
session in which he did not sleep and barely ate, reports say. The man
reportedly lost consciousness at an internet cafe on the outskirts of the Chinese
capital, Beijing. Researchers say tens of millions of Chinese people - many of
them teenagers - are addicted to internet gaming, despite curbs introduced by
the authorities aimed at tackling the problem.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12541769
6. She has been called Momzilla, the British
mother-of-the-groom who sent a scathing e-
mail to her future daughter-in-law after the
bride-to-be committed a few social faux pas
during a weekend visit to her country home.
Carolyn Bourne, 60, sent shock waves across
the Atlantic after she chastised her son's
fiancee, Heidi Withers, for "rude behavior" that
apparently included sleeping late, asking for
seconds at the dinner table and bad-mouthing
the future in-laws at the local pub….
Withers, 29, is a production assistant in London
and was so upset that she sent the nasty note to
her friends. The story soon went viral and has
dominated the British media for days. (2011)
Image from mamamia.com.au
7. James Burt, a 24 year old from Brisbane, received an
early copy of Nintendo's Super Mario Bros Wii and made
it available for download from a website, which has since
been shut down.
As a result of his actions the Federal Court ordered Burt
to pay Nintendo $1.5m in damages and also cover the
$100,000 in court costs.
The Super Mario Bros games are among the most
popular ever produced by Nintendo with millions of
copies sold around the world.
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/national-old/m-fine-for-illegal-game-
upload/story-e6freooo-1225828437040
Image from animepaper.com
10. Seven said this week it had opted not to renew a sponsorship deal with swimmer Rice
last month.
Rice was let go by Jaguar following her remarks on Twitter this week that drew
condemnation from some sections of the gay community. She was signed to Seven in
2008 on a deal said to be worth between $700,000 and $800,000.
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/entertainment/confidential/stephanie-rice-wont-be-sacked-over-anti-gay-rant/story-
e6fredq3-1225914990146
12. Do students have a First Amendment right to make fun of their
principals and teachers on Facebook and other social-media
sites? Or can schools discipline them for talking out of school?
In a pair of free-speech rulings, a federal appeals court in
Pennsylvania last week came down on the side of the students.
In both cases, the court said that schools were wrong to
suspend students for posting parodies of their principals on
MySpace — one in which a boy made fun of his principal's
body size, and another in which a girl made lewd sexual
comments about her principal. June 20, 2011
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2078636,00.html#ixzz22qxE0suq
13. How to Ruin Your Life in 14 Minutes
or why we need a serious conversation
about the ethics of social media
http://madamenoire.com/139596/gi
rls-expelled-over-racist-video-rant/
David McMillan 02/23/2012 www.huffingtonpost.com
17. Image from cybertipline.com
Think Before you Post
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w4_Hrwh2XI
Everyone Knows Your Name
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT1GvPQG904
18. EVERY day hundreds of desperate Scots teenagers log on to DIY self-harm websites.
Filled with self-loathing, they swap tips with other depressed users — some as young as 12 — about
the best way to mutilate themselves. Armed with razors, knives and scissors, the disturbed youngsters
congregate on social networking sites including Facebook, Bebo, YouTube and MySpace to chat about
their problems and post alarming pics and videos of self-inflicted injuries.
http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/scotlandfeatures/2895296/Sick-self-harm-
internet-craze-makes-teenagers-slash-temselves.html
22. Why do they need
educating?
Image from http://www.sextcasting.com/dons-be-stupid.html
23. Image from blog.sherweb.com
Andy’s Digital Dossier
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=79IYZVYIVLA
24. Google CEO Eric Schmidt created buzz (and some shock and criticism)
when he suggested in a recent Wall Street Journal interview that, in the
not too distant future, “every young person…will be entitled automatically
to change his or her name on reaching adulthood in order to disown
youthful hijinks stored on their friends’ social media sites.”
Johnathan Zittrain
Reputation Bankruptcy
Image from http://www.lifeunsweetened.com/2012/08/02/facebook-then-now/#.UB3ZxKDAGXE
27. The Australian Government
recognises the valuable
contribution educators make …
The Interim Report of the Joint
Select Committee on Cyber-
Safety, released in June 2011,
outlines 12 out of 32
recommendations directly
related to schools, teachers
and education, commenting
that ‘schools are the key places
to encourage young people to
improve their own safety and
online ethics.’
http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/153394674?selectedv Image from andresrphotos PhotoDune
ersion=NBD47271758 Image from schooluniformsplus.co.uk
28. Five Key Roles for 21st-Century
School Librarians
According to Joyce Valenza, this is the golden age of librarianship.
“Librarians are in the sweet spot of education.” Given the unprecedented quantity
of information learners are exposed to, the librarian’s role is more important than
ever. Librarians help all students gain access to, evaluate, ethically use, create,
share, and synthesize information.”
Curation
Citizenship/Compassion
Creation
Connections
Common Core
30. How do schools
address these
issues?
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31. Steps in the Process
• Form a team
• Conduct a student tech audit (?)
• Conduct a bullying survey
• Develop an Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)
http://www.isafe.org/imgs/pdf/education/AUPs.pdf
• Choose a framework/terminology that suits your school
• Read curriculum documents
http://www.education.tas.gov.au/curriculum/standards/ict/syll-ict-all.pdf
• Map the curriculum
• Find examples of IT/ICT scope and sequence
• Look at sample lessons and units
• Find resources to match the different elements
• Use students to teach other students
32. Form a Team
• Deputy Principal
• Teacher Librarian
• Head of IT/eLearning
• Head of Curriculum
• Head of PD Program
• Interested Teachers
33. Use students to teach
other students!
Image from http://www.pex-kids.com/uniform
34. Digital Citizenship - 670,000 results
Digital Citizenship Lessons - 8,740 results
Digital Citizenship Unit - 12,800 results
Digital Citizenship Resources - 97,500 results
Digital Citizenship Scope and Sequence - 187 results
Cyber Safety - 617,000 results
Cyber Safety Lessons - 28,500 results
Cyber Safety Unit - 35,000 results
Cyber Safety Resources - 27,500 results
Cyber Safety Scope and Sequence - 5 results
42. ISTE NETS for Students:
Recognised in Australian
Curriculum Documents
‘ISTE’s National Educational
Technology Standards for students –
NETS S – are the standards for
evaluating the skills and knowledge
students need to learn effectively and
live productively in an increasingly
global and digital world.’
General Capabilities in the Australian Curriculum January 2012 p 42 – ICT Capabilities
43. The Australian Curriculum includes ethical behaviour as
one of the seven general capabilities.
General Capabilities in the Australian Curriculum January 2012 p 3
44.
45. Australian Curriculum General
Capabilities
http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/GeneralCapabilities/General%20capabilities.pdf p6
46. ICT Capabilities in the Australian Curriculum
Applying social and ethical protocols and practices when
using ICT
Students develop ICT capability within a context of social and ethical protocols and
practice. This element involves students in developing an understanding of:
• intellectual property pertaining to digital information
• digital information security, including the responsibility to:
- protect the rights, identity, privacy and emotional safety of online audiences
- avoid and prevent cyberbullying
- ensure security of self and/or others
- respect audiences, being aware of the portrayal of self and others
• the benefits and consequences of ICT for individuals, groups and communities in
society, such as:
- becoming drivers of ICT, seeing themselves as creators as well as consumers of ICT
- recognising its capacity to enhance participation and inclusion
- analysing how changes in technology impact on and relate to changes in society.
General Capabilities in the Australian Curriculum January 2012 p 45
47. ICT Capabilities in the AustralianCurriculum
Investigating with ICT
This element involves students in using ICT to access data and information from a
range of primary and secondary sources when investigating questions, topics or
problems. To do this effectively and efficiently, students use processes of defining,
planning, locating, accessing, selecting, organising and evaluating information and
data. Students use ICT to:
• define and plan information searches
• locate and access data and information through:
- search engines, search functions, and general and specialised directories
- navigation tools between and within documents
- opening files of different formats
- organising data and information using a range of ICT tools
• select and evaluate data and information by applying criteria to verify the integrity of
data and information and their sources.
General Capabilities in the Australian Curriculum January 2012 p 46
48. ICT Capabilities in the Australian Curriculum
Creating with ICT
This element involves students in using ICT to generate ideas, plans, processes and
solutions to challenges and tasks. These may relate to learning a concept, completing an
activity or responding to a need, and may be self- or teacher-generated. Students use
ICT to generate ideas, plans and processes to:
• clarify a task, or the steps and processes required to develop responses to questions or
solutions to problems
• generate products or solutions for challenges and learning area tasks to:
- develop, refine and present new understandings in a digital form
- create a digital input or a process to support a digital output to transform digital data
and information.
General Capabilities in the Australian Curriculum January 2012 p 46
49. ICT Capabilities in the Australian Curriculum
Communicating with ICT
This element involves students in using ICT to communicate ideas and information with
others and collaboratively construct knowledge, in adherence with social protocols
appropriate to the communicative context (purpose, audience and technology).
Students use ICT to:
• share, exchange and collaborate to enhance learning by:
- sharing information in digital forms
- exchanging information through digital communication
- collaborating and collectively contributing to a digital product
• understand and apply social protocols to receive, send and publish digital data and
information, taking into account characteristics of users
• apply techniques or strategies to ensure security of digital information, to control
access, protect files and report abuse.
General Capabilities in the Australian Curriculum January 2012 p 47
51. Queensland
Independent Schools Queensland has developed a number of policies that can be
used by individual schools to tailor their own cybersafety policies, including:
• Child Protection Policy – which covers reporting of abuse or neglect of children, and
how to protect young people from inappropriate behavioyr, harassment and self-harm.
This is supplemented by the Child Protection Compliance Policy.
• Anti-bullying Policy – which is designed to ensure that students and staff feel safe
from bullying, including cyber-bullying.
• Computer Use Policy – which outlines protocols and procedures for the use of
schools’ electronic communication facilities and computers, including acceptable use
policies.
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The Queensland Catholic Education Commission also has a range of
policies that incorporate policies and position relating to cybersafety issues.
Teenagers, Legal Risks and Social Networking Sites, Monash University
57. OZTL_Net Comments
“I really liked this youtube clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=5Yn
1-xEXTk0
and this article:
http://www2.curriculum.edu.au/scis/connections/issue_82/feature
_article/creative_commons.html”
“A new post has been published on the ResourceLink blog -
Copyright and Copyleft, read all about it!
Check it out:
http://resourcelinkbce.wordpress.com/2012/06/29/copyright-and-
copyleft-read-all-about-it/
This post has a link to a newly created wiki that provides students
and teachers with access to information and resources about
copyright, creative commons, public domain etc.”
62. Originally developed for a workshop, this LiveBinder presents
resources for four building blocks for digital citizenship. They are:
up-to-date and enforceable Acceptable Use Policies; student
education; professional development for staff; and parent
involvement.
http://www.livebinders.com/play/play_or_edit?id=53885
Also:
http://www.livebinders.com/play/play/47237
63. ‘Australia’s safe and supportive school communities getting to the heart of the matter.’
http://www.bullyingnoway.gov.au/
80. Videos
Digital Dossier
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=79IYZVYIVLA
Student Intro Video: Online Targeting and Tracking - Comonsense Media
http://www.commonsensemedia.org/videos/student-intro-video-online-
targeting-and-tracking
Student Intro Video: Credit for Creative Work - Comonsense Media
http://www.commonsensemedia.org/videos/student-intro-video-credit-
creative-work
Think Before you Post http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w4_Hrwh2XI
Everyone Knows Your Name
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT1GvPQG904
Cyberbullying Virus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5PZ_Bh-M6o&feature=related
PSA – StopBullying
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__C7sd_UDU0&feature=related
Talent Show – Cyberbullying Prevention Commercial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdQBurXQOeQ
81. Global Digital Citizen – The Role of the Teacher
Andrew Churches
http://www.fluency21.com/blogpost.cfm?blogID=2498
Internet Safety Online Curriculum
http://www.simplek12.com/ps21
Digital Citizenship and Creative Content – a Teacher’s Guide
http://digitalcitizenshiped.com/Curriculum.aspx
Wikis
Learn the Ropes on Digital Citizenship
http://learn-the-ropes.wikispaces.com/Digital+Citizenship
Digiteen, Digital Citizen: Flat Classrooms Project
http://digiteen10-3b.flatclassroomproject.org/Topic+Review
82. Digital Citizenship Scope and Sequence
Toorak College Information Fluency Project
http://jennyluca.wikispaces.com/Toorak+College+Information+Flu
ency+Program
Commonsense Media Curriculum
http://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators/curriculum/6-8
http://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators/curriculum/k-5
Posters
Cyberbullying – Tips for Students
http://illinoisattorneygeneral.gov/cyberbullying/TipsForStudents_0
108.pdf