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toc This Wiki explores ** Digital Citizenship ** and offers resources for students, parents, and teachers.

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This Wiki explores three elements of Digital Citizenship:
 * @Digital Literacy
 * @Digital Communication
 * @Digital Etiquette
 * The Other Six Elements: a sharing space

 Each element includes activities and resources suitable to:
 *  P Primary
 *  M Middle
 *  S Secondary education levels.

Included in each element is a section on:
 * student activities
 * teacher resources
 * resources for parents

At the end of each page is an opportunity for you to review the resources and leave useful comments.

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">__**Wiki Aim and Purpose**__
<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">One of the global educational challenges today is to define and nurture what it means to be an active citizen and community member in the digital age (Anderson, Brown, & Murray, 2008). Children and teenagers today are living in a media saturated world and have instant access to communication with people from different cultures and walks of life. They are exposed to more information, more views to balance, and more people that they are directly in contact with than ever before. Our society is now multicultural, multidimensional and multi-layered. (Bovair and Griffith, 2003). How can students, teachers and parents meet this challenge and be active and productive citizens in the digital age?

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The purpose of this wiki is to examine how e-learning addresses elements of global digital citizenship and identify ways to scaffold e-learning in primary, middle and secondary years of schooling to promote digital citizesnhip. It looks to offer teachers at these levels practical ideas which are easily accessible, relevant, and easy to use. It also provides resources and references useful to teachers and parents to better understand digital citizenship in our global community.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Bailey and Ribble (2007) defined nine elements which outline the the norms and responsible behaviour with regards to technology use in our global community. These nine elements emphasize the need to respect, educate, and protect oneself and others. These elements of Digital Citizenship include the following. The three highlighted elements are included at present in this wiki. <span style="background-color: initial; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Digital Citizenship
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">1. Digital Access: full electronic participation in global society
 * <span style="background-color: #008000; color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">2. Digital Literacy: the process of teaching and learning about technology and the use of technology
 * <span style="background-color: #008000; color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">3. Digital Communication: electronic exchange of information
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">4. Digital Security and Safety: electronic precautions to guarantee safety/physical well-being in a digital technology world.
 * <span style="background-color: #008000; color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">5. Digital Etiquette: electronic standards of conduct or procedure
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">6. Digital Rights and Responsibilities: those freedoms extended to everyone in a digital world
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">7. Digital Commerce: electronic buying and selling of goods
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">8. Digital Health and Wellness: physical and psychological well being
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">9. Digital Law: rights and restrictions

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> S An excellent introductory video on the 9 elements of Digital Citizenship.

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__**<span style="color: #008000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Excellent Videos **__
<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">This video emphasizes the need to research and search out key issues on digital citizenship. It reinforces the idea that teachers need to help students think 'creatically' (Glassner & Schwarz, 2006), blending critical thinking and creative thinking in the development of students own unique perspectives.

media type="youtube" key="5tbzriH6kso" height="349" width="425" (juliecarle1, 2010) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> M S The Digital Citizenship and Safety project funded by UNICEF aims at empowering children, adolescents and young people in using Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) optimally and safely. This video highlights that 'when you post online, you post to the world' which is a necessary message to begin exploring digital citizenship.

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<span style="color: #008000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">__**Discussions and Interviews**__
<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Stephen Balkam chats with Robert Traynham of Comcast Newsmakers about the concept of digital citizenship. We all have the responsibility to protect ourselves and encourage others to be responsible. They address the issue that although the world is made up of many cultures and peoples, there are basic human expectations of behaviour that can form the basis for developing global digital citizenship guidelines. media type="youtube" key="i8c9EAqNFC4" height="349" width="425" <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">(fosi, 2010)

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em;">**__Online Resources and Links for Digital Citizenship__**

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">This video describes a Second Life virtual learning environment that has been created to allow people to become familiar with other cultures. It is created by SIETAR (The Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research, India) through the bluepill GROUP in collaboration with DIVERSOPHY.COM.

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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0000ee; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**ConnectSafely** editor Anne Bubenik. This site is a frequently updated directory which provides easy access to hundreds of resources that have been developed worldwide. Among the developers are educational institutions, advocacy organizations, law enforcement agencies, and governments from local to national levels. In response to numerous classroom requests for bilingual information, Spanish resources are also described. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Anne has personally cataloged and annotated more than 2,000 items of interest in this area and has combined them into helpful lists on dozens of [|digital citizenship topics].

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Ad4dcss/ Digital Citizenship** is a Diigo Group that supports digtial citizenship, safety and success. They advocate wise, balanced, researched based actions in the offline world to promote online citizenship, safety, and success.

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