Inspired Digital Citizenship

Anne CollierCo-director, ConnectSafely.org

Founder & writer, NetFamilyNews.org

This is the Internet now

HuffingtonPost.com

NOT THIS!

• 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

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…”

The rise of digital citizenship

Hugo A. Quintero G.

“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

Digital citizenship instruction as a national priority

RECOMMENDED TO CONGRESS

SAFETY IN SOCIAL NETWORKS

Rights are exercised online too.

…INTO SCHOOL

GET THE ‘POOL’

The pillars of citizenship

learning

Photo by Julian Turner

• Infrastructure

• Agency

• Practice

• Guidance

Five elementsof digital citizenship

• Participation or “civic engagement”

• Rights and responsibilities

• Norms of behavior ("good citizenship”)

• A sense of belonging (membership)

• Literacies: digital, media, social

SOCIALLITERACY

MEDIALITERACY

DIGITAL LITERACY

EACH LEG INDISPENSABLE

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

Consequential media, powerful users

5th grade teacher writes about her students’ ‘Digital Citizenship Minute’

Digital citizenship tends to unfold…

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

Henry Jenkins

• 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?

WHAT INSPIRESautonomy, mastery…

…RELATEDNESS

Thank you!

Anne Collieranne@connectsafely.org

NetFamilyNews.org