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A student who uses digital tools to proactively engage for social changes is a:

Digital Agent

Digital Interactor

Digital Self

Empowered Learner

Kumar finds himself getting sucked into “digital drama” online but knows that this behavior does not reflect how he wants to be represented online so he disconnects from those circumstances. This is an example of Kumar being mindful of:

Acting as a thoughtful Digital Interactor

Cultivating his Digital Self

Behaving as a Digital Agent

Respecting copyright requirements.

Julia is sharing a project in several online venues. She knows that these digital spaces have unique audiences and norms so she tailors her post for each one. Julia is being a thoughtful:

Digital Self

Digital Interactor

Digital Agent

21st Century Learner

Authentic learning or service learning projects are important to foster students as digital citizens. Specifically, they support the development of students as:

Digital Agents

Digital Selves

Digital Interactors

Digital Natives

An example of students learning how to be a Digital Agents is:

Creating an online forum for people to discuss their opinion on a local initiative, establishing norms for that space, and acting as stewards within it.

Building an interactive digital portfolio to showcase their academic work, personal interests, and career goals.

Hosting a social media gathering to connect their science club with graduate students from various fields.

Reminding a peer to be cite her sources in a digital presentation.

Mr. Beech’s fifth grade students are going to be mentoring first grade students on how to use the school’s laptops. In order to teach them empathy and how their words and actions affect others, he has them roleplay interactions both in person and in online situations. This is an example of Mr. Beech:

Having his students be thoughtful about their digital selves.

Cultivating his students as digital interactors.

Empowering his students to be digital agents.

Encouraging his students to be nice to little kids.

An example of students learning how to be a Digital Interactors is:

Using digital tools to connect with established “buddies” to talk through ethical decisions and thinking.

Taking online tests to find out their personality, I.Q., and learning styles.

Making an anonymous profile to experiment with different online personae and explore areas of the internet.

Creating a webform that people can use to email their Members of Congress about local issues.

Mrs. Jackson frequently asks her students to respond to prompts and discussions in the class LMS. Periodically, she also has the students review their comments and interactions and reflect in their personal digital journal about them—successes, food for thought, areas for improvement. Mrs. Jackson is:

Helping students build their digital self.

Fostering active digital agents.

Forcing her students to be digital interactors.

Leading her students as Creative Communicators.

An example of a student learning how to foster her Digital Self is:

Collaboratively creating a rubric for virtual meetings with other classes and self-evaluating their performance against that rubric.

Using a case-based scenario about social media as a jumping off point to think about how interactions online can affect other people.

Pursuing a passion project by fundraising online to build wells in key areas of Sub-Saharan Africa.

Adjusting privacy settings on accounts so that no one will know about a secret club making fun of overweight people.

Digital citizenship is best taught:

As a stand-alone weekly or monthly lesson.

During a dedicated “digital citizenship” week.

At the start of the school year when students receive their devices or computer training.

Knit throughout the school day and the content areas.

The ISTE Standard, Digital Citizen, encourages students to be__________ in their digital engagements:

Thoughtful, ethical, and proactive.

Careful, legal, and protective.

Cautious, worried, and secure.

Secretive, ethical, and smart.

Teaching students to be savvy digital citizens is important because:

Increased digital interaction brings a need for strong media literacy and digital age citizenship.

The internet is a complicated, often dangerous place and students need to know what not to do so they can be safe.

Today’s students will not be able to get tomorrow’s job if they do not have strong technology skills.

In order for children to engage online they necessitate clear, strict guidelines and expectations for behavior.

It is important that students be aware of personalization algorithms and data tracking technology so that they:

Can make informed decisions about how they navigate and interact online.

Fight back against government and corporate overreach.

Understand why they sometimes see ads for items they have just browsed.

Act in ways that are safe, legal, and ethical online and in person.

If someone feels embarrassed about a post they put up online they should:

Delete it immediately so that no one else can see it and there is no record.

Leave it up and ignore it since you cannot ever really delete anything online.

Delete the account so that no one will ever be able to find it.

Explain in different words or clarify first, and possibly apologize if warranted.

A math teacher wants to include digital citizenship in his class but he’s not sure how do so authentically. What’s one approach he could take?

Have the students find a non-profit that tutors underserved students and create screencast tutorials that the non-profit can use to support their clients.

Have the students post their homework and test scores online so that employers can see their grades.

Get the students to take their math club virtual and meet from their homes instead of on campus.

Encourage students to post what they do and do not like about math on their social media accounts.

A first grade teacher knows it’s important to teach digital citizenship but is not sure what is or is not appropriate for such young students. One thing she could do is:

Teach the students about tone of voice and body language, and then have them try to determine emotions in written text or from a “robot” voice. Teach them about empathy and being thoughtful about lack of tone and body language when communicating online, including practicing in a closed online space.

Tell the students about cyber-bullying and bad people online and why it’s important to be careful when on the internet because you cannot be sure who you are talking to. Encourage them to avoid going online at all without adult supervision until they are older.

Give a direct presentation at the start of the year about how students should care for technology in the classroom. Create a checklist for what to do and what not to do with technology (considering gathering feedback from the students too) and post it on the classroom wall so they know the rules and how to not break them.

Hold off. While the teacher’s impulse is laudable, these students are too young to learn about digital citizenship and she should save that work for the older grades when parents will feel more comfortable with it, or until her principal says to teach it.

A social studies teacher aims for his students to think about history and civics in the digital age as well as in the past. What is one thing he can do to empower his students to be digital, as well as physical, citizens?

Have them write a paper on why it is important to engage with social issues online.

Have them create and publish a digital project that compares and contrasts an historical event with a contemporary counterpart.

Encourage them to write about what they are learning in school on their social media accounts.

Stage a mock debate where students say who they would vote for if they were allowed to vote.

An ELA teacher wants his students to think authentically about audience when writing persuasive essays. What’s one way that a digital citizenship approach can help him?

Give students the same writing assignment but have them choose from an annotated list of online venues where they will publish their work.

Schedule a virtual conference with a college professor who can tell them how to write for an authentic audience.

Have students create an online portfolio of their work that’s meant to reflect their “best” self.

Do an online poll of what people think about an issue and encourage the students to write essays the respondents will agree with.

A school’s college counselor wants her students to think about how their online presence and persona may affect their college applications (beyond telling them to not post embarrassing photos). What’s the best way she can help them build their digital selves?

Make the students look themselves up on a search engine and delete anything that’s embarrassing or problematic, and then make a profile on a professional social media site.

Encourage the students to get a professional headshot for their profile picture and to never post anything online that is not strictly professional or academic—If you would not want Grandma to see it, do not post it!

Tell the students to set all their social media accounts to private so that colleges and universities will not be able to see anything they have done or posted.

Ask the students to reflect on their goals and what is crucial about themselves for people to know. Encourage the students to use this reflection as a guide when they complete a personal audit of their online persona and make any needed enhancements.

To support students in being proactive digital citizens, it is crucial to cultivate their:

Empathy.

Digital footprint.

Strategy.

Soft skills.

In addition to respecting other people’s intellectual property by citing sources and/or gaining permissions to use, students should thoughtfully manage their own IP as well. What is a good way they can do that?

Never sharing original work online or outside of an established publishing venue.

Consulting a lawyer to ensure their work is copyrighted and protected.

Choosing a Creative Commons license to indicate how their work can be used.

Not worrying about it; if it is posted online, people know it is free for all.

A middle school teacher wants his students to be good digital citizens and knows that this is a crucial age for establishing norms and behaviors. How should he approach this teaching?

Keeping students offline for academic work but giving them 30 minutes each day to browse online.

Routinely addressing “digital drama” and cyber-bullying and brainstorming ways to disconnect or intervene in either of these situations.

Creating a list of regulations for online behavior that students then practice in the class LMS discussion board.

Helping them create animated avatars that they can use on all their online sites and accounts.

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