The document discusses using social media and blogging to teach digital citizenship to teens. It notes that teens are already active users of social media and that it can be used to extend learning and meet students where they are. However, it also notes the importance of teaching digital responsibility given the permanence and openness of content online. The document outlines benefits of social media in education like engagement and authentic content creation. It also discusses considerations for teaching digital citizenship to teens, like their developing brains and need for examples and feedback from adults.

1. Teens and Digital Footprints Learning about Responsible Digital Citizenship through Blogging a presentation by Shauna Pollock and Gill Crosbie

2. Social Media What do you use? What do your students use? Why is social media so appealing? How do you use social media? How can you maximize social media use in education? Who is already doing this? (twitter, facebook, blogger, edublogs, PLNs...)

3. Social Media (continued) Meet students where they are Extend learning Authenticity Digital responsibility

4. Digital Citizenship You are responsible for your actions on the Internet. Do our students realize this? Vastness, permanence and openness of Internet Cyber bullying

5. What are we, as educators, afraid of? Explore our fears from the intro activity How can we prevent our fears from coming true?

6. What are the benefits to using social media? meet the students where they are engagement, motivation ownership, pride, creating authentic content for a real audience multi-tasking explicitly teaching responsibilty

7. The Three Cs Communicate Create Collaborate

8. The Teen Brain potential to learn things: neural networks enlarging, synapses develop with stimulation makes changes depending on demands of environment: can master new technology inability to make snap judgements, need for adult examples and feedback, need to be reminded of potential consequences interested in interactions with others, developing a sense of self, identity formation

9. You’re interested? How to blog with 25 teens access to computers! collaborate with your peers (within your school, in other schools, cities, provinces, countries - the sky’s the limit!) create authentic tasks allow for yourself, as a teacher, to learn from your students provide feedback share successes