A look at Digital Citizenship as it is connected to one of the constants in teaching, the Key Competencies. Early conversations, entry points from Takapuna Intermediate school.

1. Digital Citizenship Classroom connections

2. Citizenship
• A confident and capable user of ICT
• Uses technologies to participate in educational,
cultural, and economic activities.
• Uses and develops critical thinking skills online.
• Is literate in the language, symbols and texts of digital
technologies.
• Is aware of ICT challenges and manages them
effectively.

3. Digital Citizenship
• Uses ICTs to relate to others in positive,
meaningful ways.
• Demonstrates honesty, integrity and ethical
behaviour in their use of ICT.
• Respects the concepts of privacy and freedom
of speech in a digital world.
• Contributes and actively promotes the values of
digital citizenship.

4. New Zealand Curriculum - Key
competencies
-thinking,
- using language, symbols,
and texts
-managing self
-relating to others
-participating and contributing

5. Values shared
• Survey on home behaviour
• School values discussed with
common language.
• Distilled into Classroom
constitution and agreements.
• WHAT does behaviour look and
sound like
• Signing Responsible User
Agreement online and offline.

6. Digital Citizenship
• DEVICES
• CYBERSAFETY
• 'Hook-line' INFORMATION
• Personal Currency

7. • DEVICES: How we care for and maintain both our
personal and shared devices.
Charged at
home
Labelled
Cleaned
Time
managed
Password
protected

8. My behaviour online should reflect the
values and expectations of my behaviour
offline.
Write it
and stand
by it as
you
would if it
was face
to face.

9. 'Hook-line'
information
• Online and offline information
• The ability to distinguish between fact and opinion
• Triangulate resources
• Don't overlook print
• Expert testimony

10. PERSONAL CURRENCY
• Your personal information is like $ online.
• Your sharing of information gives you access to your
'free' trial but at a cost to your privacy.
• Your ability to create and consume media in a
responsible way.
• What is the state of your digital dossier?

12. FIRST PERSON ACCOUNTS
• Responding to reflections from students (in an
LMS or website) in their own space demonstrates
value of their own accounts and encourages
dialogue.

13. Module subheadings
• LEARN
• RECALL
• THINK
• ACT
• EXTEND
• CONTRIBUTE

14. The Importance of FACE to
FACE
• Body language and facial expression are nuances we
cannot easily replicate online
• Tone of voice can affect the message as much as or
more than the meaning of the words themselves.
• Distance can enable indifference. Cause and effect
relationship cannot always be seen.

15. ACTIVITY MIRROR DESIGN
To demonstrate the importance of body
language and facial expressions in
communicating.1) In pairs, share between 8-10 Popsicle sticks of
different colour.
2)Each person should have the same number and
assortment of colour as their partner.
3)Decide who will be A and who will be B. Sitting
back to back,'A' creates a design on the floor with
their Popsicle sticks.
4)'A' then verbally, but while also remaining back to
back, instructs 'B' on how to create a mirror
design.
5)'B' attempts to create their Popsicle design exactly
as 'A' has instructed.
6)After the instruction, A and B step away from their

16. QUESTIONS that surprised us along the
way:
• At what point do students own their data?
• What should that data look like by the end of Year 2,
6, 8, 13?
• My parents are asking for FB to be used to share
school notices. If we do this, what are the
implications?
• What happens to resources created by teachers
when they leave a school for another? Who owns it?
• Parents and students taking photos and video at

18. Citizenship and some video snippets from
Takapuna Normal Intermediate
Takapuna Normal Intermediate
Takapuna Normal Intermediate
• BYOD @ TNIS - Phase 1
• http://vimeo.com/37571467
• Taka tidbits on Cell phone safety
• http://vimeo.com/44357379
• Taka tidbits on Distracted drivers &
devices
• http://vimeo.com/53616105

19. Digital Citizenship project
http://bit.ly/digitalcitizenshipnz
http://bit.ly/digitalcitizenshipnz
• Defining digital citizenship
• Basic ICT skills
• Online safety, privacy, and sharing
• Copyright, copyleft, plagiarism
• Online relationships
• Online research
• Critical thinking
Some contributors of Digital
Citizenship group at National Library, Term 3 2012
MODULES:

20. BYOD
Declare it!
Sign and submit
Device Agreement
Label it!
Prove it!*
Care for it!