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BLOG POST / VIDEOS: These are are a series of (link) Digital Citizenship video resources from Hoover, Alabama Schools and Common Sense Media. There are descriptions around what each video contains and how long it is.

An Instrument to Assess Student Voice and e-learning
Pam Hook

Staff Discussion Points

Nine Themes of Digital Citizenship

(link) SuperClubsPLUS is a protected social learning network, designed to help children 6-13 years better understand how to keep themselves safe online. It has a range of unique tools and functions that provide for the active protection of children against predation, cyberbullying and other forms of online dangers. More importantly, it provides children with a developmental education over extended time frames where they can acquire the strategies and behaviours that enable them to keep safe no matter where they go online. It is also a virtual and experiential playground that encourages young children to develop sophisticated ICT skills, socialise and work with peers in a wide range of projects and activities.

Digital literacy or the ability to understand and fully participate in the digital world is fundamental to digital citizenship. It is the combination of technical and social skills that enable a person to be successful and safe in the information age.

A blog from Mary Beth Hertz in "The Journal" (www.thejournal.com) where she talks about the "dangers" of not allowing children to access to technology in school that surrounds them outside of school.

A Digital Citizenship Definition

The learning pathways for digital citizenship and cybersafety follow the New Zealand Curriculum’s learning pathways. They are designed to build on student’s existing skills and develop school leavers who are capable of managing their own online safety.

Digital Citizenship: The Teacher’s Role

This is a Digital Citizenship and Cybersafety module that teachers can work through at their own pace. Although the virtual meetings have ended for 2010, the resource is still available for personal professional development. It covers: understanding digital citizenship, digital citizenship in the classroom, and staying cybersafe in the classroom.

NSW Dept of Education have recently launched a new site dealing with (link) Cyber-citizenship. Offers an interesting array of resources, many of which are reserved for NSW teachers/students but worth looking into. http://www.digitalcitizenship.nsw.edu.au/

Technology and School Change

NetSafe has worked closely with Google to create the (link) Google Family Safety Centre advice pages. There is information here on a range of issues that we know can often be concerning to parents.

Young people’s use of technology in Aotearoa - New Zealand is always changing. Changes in ICT-use produce new opportunities for learning, as well as new opportunities for challenges for both students and educators.

Digital Citizenship issues in primary school: The changes Web2 brings to cybersafety

Using a complex password is one of the first lessons a young person can learn to play an active role in their own cybersafety. This classroom or home activity will help young people learn how to create and remember a strong password.

This collaborative mind map has been created by the staff at Pukekohe North school. The staff are starting to explore what digital citizenship might mean not only for the students; but for the staff, the institution of the school and the wider community. You can (link) view the map here. You can also view the Digital Citizenship page that the map is embeded on as part of the(link) Pukekohe Cluster wiki.

We are seeking your comments and suggestions on a new approach to school Acceptable Use Policies (AUPs)

Fantastic video all about personal information online.

As part of the re-vamp of our (link) NetSafe Kit for Schools we are taking a look at acceptable use agreements, and how they are used in NZ schools. We are aware that many school use our use agreement templates as the starting point for their own use agreements, but what do they look like when they are finished.

This article entitled "(link) Why Teachers need Digital Citizenship" by Suzie Nestico details how a Facebook imposter profile was created in her name, how she went about dealing with it and the lessons that she (and all of us) can learn from incidents like these.

This blog article discusses how we can teach and model good digital citizenship.

Stephen Balkam of FOSI (Family Online Safety Institute) has written an interesting piece about the online activism in Egypt and Tunisia as an example of Digital Citizenship in action.

A great (link) article about appropriate modelling by adults from Marti Weston on the (link) Teaching Tolerance Website, which is part of the (link) Southern Poverty Law Centre, an online resource focused on;

The Hector’s World initiative teaches young people how to become confident and responsible digital citizens. The animated episodes feature Hector and his Silicon Deep friends as they learn safe, responsible behaviors when using technology. The stories promote seeking advice from trusted adults.

From Cyber Safety to Digital Citizenship
