1. Learning to participate effectively online is a matter of mindset
and practice– and the payoff can be big… Done mindfully, digital
participation helps build a more democratic, more diverse culture.
Howard Rheingold
Educating Effective and Responsible Mike Gwaltney
Digital Contributors and Creators Jonathan Martin
OESIS January 2013

2. Discuss in Small Groups: How do you understand
Citizenship? What are its exemplars?

3. Follow-up Discussion:
How does Digital
Citizenship Differ from
Citizenship?

4. The obligations of citizenship were deeply connected with everyday
life. Citizens of the polis saw obligations to the community as a source
of honor and respect. From Wikipedia
Full-Room Discussion

5. From Will Richardson, Embracing Innovation

6. HOW POWERFUL [IS] THE INSTINCT TO WORRY.
BUT IT WILL BE OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO KEEP THAT INSTINCT IN
CHECK AND TO RECOGNIZE THAT THEIR INCREASINGLY PUBLIC
EXISTENCE BRINGS MORE PROMISE THAN PERIL.
WE HAVE TO LEARN HOW TO BREAK WITH THAT MOST
ELEMENTAL OF PARENTAL COMMANDMENTS: DON'T TALK TO
STRANGERS. IT TURNS OUT THAT STRANGERS HAVE A LOT TO
GIVE US THAT'S WORTHWHILE, AND WE TO THEM."
--STEVEN JOHNSON
"WEB PRIVACY: IN PRAISE OF OVERSHARING"
TIME MAGAZINE, MAY 20, 2010
HTTP://BIT.LY/ABBBYL
From Will Richardson, Embracing Innovation

7. No one is teaching kids to do this well.
From Will Richardson, Embracing Innovation

8. If it was just about learning,* shouldn't we be teaching
them to talk to strangers?
From Will Richardson, Embracing Innovation *Which it isn't...

9. DISCUSS

13. On Note Cards
Write and Post
your 3-4 key elements
of a
Digital Citizenship Bill of
Rights.
We’ll collect and post.

14. Discuss: How would you develop and use
such a Bill of Rights in your school?

15. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence,
then, is not an act but a habit.
For the things we have to learn before we
can do them, we learn by doing them.

17. Knowledge,
power, advantage,
companionship,
and influence lie
with those who
know how to
participate, not
just passively
consume culture.

18. 5 Literacies :
–attention,
–participation,
–collaboration,
–“crap detection,”
–network smarts.

19. • We know a whole world
of pressing social
problems can be
improved by peer
networks, digital or
analog, local or global,
animated by those core
values of participation,
equality and diversity.
• That is a future worth
looking forward
to. Now is the time to
invent it.

20. Now we will just
assume that media
includes the
possibilities of
consuming,
producing, and
sharing side by side,
and that those
possibilities are open
to everyone. How
else would you do it?

24. http://ageofex.wordpr
ess.com/2012/10/08/d-e-
s-i-g-n-your-words/

25. http://vimeo.com/9828745

26. George Couros

27. http://youtu.be/2InkWRc1zww

28. You and I, as citizens,
have the obligation to
shape the debates of
our time – not only
with the votes we cast,
but with the voices we
lift.

29. http://ageofex.wordpress.
com/2012/01/10/homework
-how-much-is-too-much/

30. NOW WHAT Small Group Discussion :
What are you doing to
cultivate digital
citizenship?
Open Share

32. Stop “Manning The Firewalls”
• Provide P.D. for
teachers
• Partner with
students to develop
and enforce
“Blanket bans are appropriate
preventing us from boundaries
• Teach media literacy
becoming dynamic
• Be role models and
21st century learning mentors
institutions.”
http://plpnetwork.com/2013/01/04/open-letter-leaders-
manning-firewalls/

35. Cyberbullying is not a discrete practice. It should not be
addressed separately.
Cyberbullying is more visible, but not more common.
There are no silver-bullet solutions. To combat
bullying, we need
everyone to be engaged.
We must help encourage youth to be courageous
and loving, respectful, and tolerant. This is hard,
but it starts with each of us.

37. “We look at artists each day
in class, be it photographers,
writers, graffiti artists,
poets, sculptors, etc.. With
the help of social media, we
are more in touch with the
art world than ever before,
and I’ve witnessed this
inspiration set forth ideas in
my students that they
successfully translate into
their photographic work.”
Shannon Smith, Teacher

38. Open Computer Testing
What matters is no longer what one
knows, but what one can do with
what one knows and with information
one can access, evaluate, and apply

39. • Will Richardson Embracing Innovation:
http://www.pdscompasspoint.com/learning-in-a-networked-
REFERENCES world-with-will-richardson
AND
• David Wees on Filters:
RESOURCES
http://davidwees.com/content/internet-filters-should-be-
our-students-heads
• Stephen Johnson Future Perfect
– Post about: http://wp.me/poMQP-1sG
• Howard Rheingold Net Smart
– Post about http://wp.me/poMQP-1nb
• Digital Citizenship boot Camp St. Gregory
http://wp.me/PoMQP-14B
• EdSurge Bill of Rights: https://www.edsurge.com/n/2013-01-
23-a-bill-of-rights-and-principles-for-learning-in-the-digital-
age
• Open Computer Testing: www. 21k12blog.net/oct
• Berkman Center Cyberbullying report:
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/publications/2012/kbw_what_y
ou_must_know
• Alan November, Who Owns the Learning
• Clay Shirky, Cognitive Surplus

40. • Mike Gwaltney:
FIND THE
SLIDES, – @MikeGwaltney
VIDEOS, – Mikegwaltney.net
& MORE – Mike@mikegwaltney.net
AT
21K12BLOG.NET
• Jonathan E. Martin
– @JonathanEMartin
– 21k12blog.net
– jonathanemartin@gmail.com