What makes a successful digital
citizen?Allison Allen
Director, Outstream ConsultingTrustee, Naace Board of Management
Towards tomorrow's successful digital citizens: A policy think tank
London Knowledge LabFebruary 2015
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Digital Citizen - A Definition?
Source: George Couros via Pinterest
“It’s about E-Safety” [Teacher]
“Trying to be kind and help”
English secondary phase teacher
English computing curriculum; No Digital Citizenship, some Digital
Literacy / e-safety
KS4 – “understand how changes in technology affect safety, including new ways to protect their online privacy and identity, and how to
report a range of concerns”
English computing curriculum; No Digital Citizenship, some Digital
Literacy / e-safety
KS4 – “understand how changes in technology affect safety, including new ways to protect their online privacy and identity, and how to
report a range of concerns”
“Digital citizenship begins the first time
any child participates in any electronic
function.” (American School)
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Consulting3
Control v agency? Control in a user-driven, mobile media
environment?
Inconsequential use -> feeling of powerlessness ->
hopelessness ->greater risk [Dr. Ian Rivers, Brunel University]
Agency, stakeholder, citizenship -> empowerment
-> greater safety [Harvard]
Citizenship suggests active, ethical engagement[Adapted from Anne Collier Co-director, ConnectSafely.org]
This is the Internet now
cannibaliczombie.deviantart.com
Digital Citizenship ‘Norms’1. Student Learning
and Academic Performance
1. Student Learning and Academic Performance
2. Student Environment and
Behaviour
2. Student Environment and
Behaviour
3. Student Life Outside School3. Student Life Outside School
Digital Access
Digital Literacy
Digital Communicatio
n
Digital Security &
Safety Digital Law
Digital Access
Digital Commerce
Adapted from: Digital Citizenship in Schools: Mike Ribble & Gerald Bailey
Digital Rights &
Responsibilities
Digital Etiquette
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Digital rights?
Reflection
“The central task of citizenship
is learning how to be good to one another.”
[A.J. Patrick Liszkiewicz]
Personal responsibility?
Global citizenship?
Digital citizenship?
Altruistic service?
Environmental stewardship?
No citizenship without the citizens
“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]
Net neutrality?
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