JSCHS / Digital Citizenship Discussion

Digital Citizenship

Survey

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Online Risks

• Inappropriate Content• Inappropriate Conduct• Inappropriate Contact

NYTimes Article on Formspring

CNN article on 4chan

CNN Article on ChatRoulette H9

Anonymous

A broad audience

Photoshop

Can’t take it back

Wild Wild West

Ethical Fault Lines• Identity• Privacy• Authorship & Ownership• Participation

“Meeting of Minds: Cross-Generational Dialogue on the Ethics of Digital Life” GoodPlay Project at Harvard University’s Project Zero, Global Kids Inc., and Common Sense Media (October 2009)

IDENTITY

Teen Thinking - Identity Why be yourself when you can turn yourself into someone you would rather be?

Have freedom to be who we want others to believe we are.

Online provides place for experimentation and feedback.

Be Cool. Fit In.

Concerned more about personal consequences than effects of their behavior on others.

Privacy

False sense of privacy + anonymity + lack of social responsibility = ????

Rutgers University

“… some students don’t have the basic discretion to know what’s appropriate.”

Project Civility

Spammers, hackers, “trolls”, strangers

College admissions, employers, intern programs, summer camps, parents

Searchable & not easily deleted

Unintended Audiences

Willing to share with peers not adults

Few youth spoke of risks & potential harms of sharing

Transparency

Police??

connections H 14

Teen Voice vs. Adult Voice

• “..once you realize exactly the scope of the website, it’s easy to use it … with minimal risk.”

• “…... Paranoid…...”

• “… privacy means … wanting … those FEW with whom I decide to share, to know.”

Univ. of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, University Marketing Study, 2009

Do you research potential students via search engines and/or social networking sites? (% Yes)

16% 17%26%

21%23%

17%

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Search Engines Social Networking Sites

2007

2008

2009

For scholarships & high-demand programs

To avoid embarrassment to School

Participation:Being a Responsible Citizen Online

Positive• Communal & participatory• Community rules• Empowerment• Mentorship• Camaraderie• Activism• Participate when they

choose• Contributions valued

Negative• Hate speech• Language• Sexual behavior• Intimidation• Depersonalization• Token activism• Cheating in games

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Authorship & OwnershipMedia Creation & Knowledge Sharing

Intellectual Property

Ilegal downloading & pirating

Giving credit for use or remix

Why they download: Easy Lack of money It’s available

“Get in trouble”

Java-loopholes-exe files

A “want to”; A break; A reward; A distraction*Your grades on FacebookImpact of FacebookOpen GraphHackers Use AppsStrangers as Friends

17-2525-34*

*GWU Study 2009

H 21

Realities of

• Pictures can be copied• >18 is google-able• Public pages• Fake fan pages• Don’t own content• Risky apps – 1,000s of scams target teens• Hackable / Phishable• Money maker

H 23

CyberbullyingLaw:S. 1492:

Broadband Data Improvement Act (signed by President Bush Oct. 10, 2008. Public law No. 110-385)

--requires schools to educate (NetCetera)

AB 86 (CA) amended CA Ed Code Sec. 48900-48927

--can suspend or expel

A Fine Line – harassment or free speech (ACLU)

Spills onto campuses: avoid class, failing grades, contemplate suicide

Schools set clear expectations for students and educators

H 23 - Books

Harvard Findings Oct 2009

• Most prevalent:“I do online what I want to do online. I don’t feel

it is anyone’s business to tell me what I shouldn’t do. I don’t feel responsible to people online. I feel it’s more for me; not for anybody else.”

Scarcity of Ethical Thinking• Ability to think about

the impact of online choices for one’s groups, communities, nation and world

• Rarest way of thinking found in teens

Harvard Findings• Have no control so laugh and move on• Internet is for fun• Feel powerless– Individualistic thinking– – Consequence thinking

Socialization F2F

What will your footprint cost you

My Footprints.org

The Future of Reputation

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Absence of Supports

• Adult mentors

• Adults are virtually absent

• Adults emphasize Internet safety over ethics and citizenship

• Adults bring: Traditions, knowledge, experience

Discussion & Presence

• Initiate conversations • Ask the right questions• Model – Engage• Teach morals and ethics• Find a meeting of the minds NO

YES

Advocacy / Social Good

Challenge them to see themselves as citizens of online communities

Consequential

Meaningful

Powerful

New Media is beneficial-- We should not lock it out.

Suggested Curriculum

• Mon.: Identity, Privacy & Social networks• Tues.: Online Safety• Wed.: Piracy, Copyright & Plagiarism• Thurs.: Acceptable Use & Cyberbullying• Fri.: Check for Understanding

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Resources

• NetCetera: Link• Natl School Boards Assn: “Creating & Connecting”• The Good Work Project: Link• CA Coalition on Children’s Internet Safety & CA

Office of Privacy Protection: Link• The Future of Reputation: Daniel Solove• Born Digital: Link

More Resources

• Cyberbullying: School Bullies article• OCDE CyberSafe Videos: Link• Cyberbullying: Wash Post article• Project Civility – Rutgers University – articles

and talking points: Civility• Cybercitizenship.org: Instruction• Alexa.com – Web Information website

More Resources

• CyberSmartCurriculum.org: More Instruction• CyberBullying Research Center• Article from Education Leadership: Footprints

in the Digital Age (be googled well)• Henry Jenkins, USC, video: Raising the Digital

Generation• Pew Internet & American Life Project: Link

People to Follow

• danah boyd: Link• Peter Cashmore: Mashable• Henry Jenkins: Link• New Media Literacies Project, USC Annenberg

School of Communications & Journalism: Link