What makes a successful digital

citizen?Allison Allen

Director, Outstream ConsultingTrustee, Naace Board of Management

Towards tomorrow's successful digital citizens: A policy think tank

London Knowledge LabFebruary 2015

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Digital Citizen - A Definition?

Source: George Couros via Pinterest

“It’s about E-Safety” [Teacher]

“Trying to be kind and help”

English secondary phase teacher

English computing curriculum; No Digital Citizenship, some Digital

Literacy / e-safety

KS4 – “understand how changes in technology affect safety, including new ways to protect their online privacy and identity, and how to

report a range of concerns”

English computing curriculum; No Digital Citizenship, some Digital

Literacy / e-safety

KS4 – “understand how changes in technology affect safety, including new ways to protect their online privacy and identity, and how to

report a range of concerns”

“Digital citizenship begins the first time

any child participates in any electronic

function.” (American School)

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Consulting3

Control v agency? Control in a user-driven, mobile media

environment?

Inconsequential use -> feeling of powerlessness ->

hopelessness ->greater risk [Dr. Ian Rivers, Brunel University]

Agency, stakeholder, citizenship -> empowerment

-> greater safety [Harvard]

Citizenship suggests active, ethical engagement[Adapted from Anne Collier Co-director, ConnectSafely.org]

This is the Internet now

cannibaliczombie.deviantart.com

Digital Citizenship ‘Norms’1. Student Learning

and Academic Performance

1. Student Learning and Academic Performance

2. Student Environment and

Behaviour

2. Student Environment and

Behaviour

3. Student Life Outside School3. Student Life Outside School

Digital Access

Digital Literacy

Digital Communicatio

n

Digital Security &

Safety Digital Law

Digital Access

Digital Commerce

Adapted from: Digital Citizenship in Schools: Mike Ribble & Gerald Bailey

Digital Rights &

Responsibilities

Digital Etiquette

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Digital rights?

Reflection

“The central task of citizenship

is learning how to be good to one another.”

[A.J. Patrick Liszkiewicz]

Personal responsibility?

Global citizenship?

Digital citizenship?

Altruistic service?

Environmental stewardship?

No citizenship without the citizens

“If the notion of digital citizenship in policy discourse is to have traction with its

constituents and prove effective, it is vital that our understanding and use of the term be

directly informed by young people’s values and insights.”

[Third & Strider, Univ. of Western Sydney]

Net neutrality?