What is digital citizenship? Why should educators, students, and parents care?
Today, billions of people all over the planet interact using various technologies. This interaction has created a digital society that affords its members opportunities for education, employment, entertainment, and social interaction. As in any society, it is expected that digital citizens act in a certain way according to accepted norms, rules, and laws. Most of today's students are entirely comfortable with technology, but are they using it appropriately? Do they understand their roles and responsibilities in digital society? How can teachers help students become responsible digital citizens?
Digital Citizenship in Schools is an essential introduction to digital citizenship. Starting with a basic definition of the concept and an explanation of its relevance and importance, the authors go on to explore the nine elements of digital citizenship. They provide a useful audit and professional development activities to help educators determine how to go about integrating digital citizenship concepts into the classroom. Activity ideas and lesson plans round out this timely book.
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What Works in K-12 Online Learning - ISBN 1564842363About the AuthorMike Ribble has served as a classroom biology teacher, a secondary school administrator, a network manager for a community college, and a university instructor. He received a doctorate in educational leadership from Kansas State University.Gerald D. Bailey is a professor of educational administration and leadership in the College of Education at Kansas State University. He received his doctorate from the University of Nebraska in 1972. Before earning his doctorate he was a teacher, lead teacher, and supervisor for Lincoln Public Schools in Lincoln, Nebraska.
He provides a useful audit and professional development activities to help educators determine how to go about integrating digital citizenship concepts into the classroom. Activity ideas and lesson plans round out this timely book.
Explains the relevance and importance of digital citizenship and explores its elements.
He provides a useful audit and professional development activities to help educators determine how to go about integrating digital citizenship concepts into the classroom. Activity ideas and lesson plans round out this timely book.
This book provides education leaders a strategic road map that demonstrates how to incorporate these concepts into the curriculum so that digital citizenship isn’t just “one more thing,” but is threaded into the DNA of how educators ...
This is surprising given how digital technologies are part and parcel of most young people’s lives today and will continue to be so in the future.
Make responsible digital citizenship part of your school’s culture! Use this book’s community-based approach to building digital citizenship to teach, learn, and thrive in today’s digital environment.
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The Digital citizenship education handbook is consistent with the Council of Europe’s Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture and compatible for use with the Internet literacy handbook.
This readable guide includes sample lesson plans, worksheets, suggestions of teaching models, assessment tools and more. With this book, any educator can help bring digital citizenship to their students, colleagues and organization.
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