Technology coaches model and promote digital citizenship (ISTE 2011).
As a computer science instructor, I feel a special need to educate my students about what it means to be a responsible digital citizenship. This includes modeling and promoting behaviors and skills that represent best practices for digital citizenship for all Internet users.
During the SPU DEL program, we had the opportunity to read an excellent book by Howard Rheingold titled Net Smart: How to Thrive Online (The MIT Press, 2012). I posted a book review summarizing what I thought are the highlights of the book. One of these highlights is the author’s list of the five [digital] literacies:
- Attention – your attention can be trained, but you have to keep a strong hold on your intentions to be successful.
- Crap Detection – ability to filter the good content from the bad content, checking sources, and ‘acting like a detective’.
- Participation – lightweight activities are tagging, liking, bookmarking, and wiki editing; higher engagement is curation, commenting, blogging and community organizing.
- Collaboration – you need coordination to dance by yourself, cooperation to act in concert toward shared interests, and collaboration to achieve shared goals.
- Network Smarts – networks influence the way individuals and groups behave; networks that enable many-to-many communication grow in value more rapidly than broadcast networks.
I have found this to be a great list for all students and educators to use in becoming better digital citizens. My additional experiences with the ISTE digital citizenship standard are captured with the following performance indicators:
5A. Promote equitable access
5B. Facilitate safe, healthy, legal, and ethical use
5C. Promote diversity, cultural understanding and global awareness
References
- International Society for Technology in Education. (ISTE; 2011). Standards for Coaches. https://id.iste.org/docs/pdfs/20-14_ISTE_Standards-C_PDF.pdf.
- Rheingold, H. (2012). Net smart: How to thrive online. The MIT Press.
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