1. Learning to participate effectively online is a matter of mindset and
practice– and the payoff can be big… Done mindfully, digital participation
helps build a more democratic, more diverse culture. Howard Rheingold
Fighting Fire with Fire:
Building Strong Digital Citizenship
Jonathan E. Martin
21k12blog.net
@jonathanemartin
MVCS August 2013
2. The obligations of citizenship were deeply connected with everyday life.
Citizens of the polis saw obligations to the community as a source of
honor and respect. From Wikipedia
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15. Idiot as a word derived from the Greek ἰδιώτης, idiōtēs ("person
lacking professional skill", "a private citizen", "individual"),
from ἴδιος, idios ("private", "one's own")
16. People who think of
themselves as capable of
creating as well as
consuming are different
kinds of citizens, and our
collective actions add up to
a different kind of society.
Knowledge, power,
advantage, companionship,
and influence lie with those
who know how to
participate, not just
passively consume culture.
17. The Best Opposition to Poor Citizenship is Good
Citizenship
The Best Way to Develop Good Citizenship is by
Practicing Good Citizenship
Digital Natives will Respond to our Lead Far
Better when we Model And Advocate Positive
Citizenship than when we Frown at their Digital
Lives.
32. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence,
then, is not an act but a habit.
For the things we have to learn before we
can do them, we learn by doing them.
34. When it comes to interacting with
the world of always-on information,
the fundamental skill, on which
other essential skills depend, is the
ability to deal with distraction
without filtering out opportunity.
Howard Rheingold, Net Smart
35. An antidote to our
epidemic distraction lies
in a set of astonishing
discoveries: attention can
be understood,
strengthened, and taught.
If focus skills can be
groomed, the important
next question is whether,
and how, attention should
be integrated into
education.
36. Instead of complaining about the problem of
distraction, we need to teach the skills and
habit of attention.
Meditation, prayer, walk in the woods
Sustained silent reading, (art or writing)
Goal-setting, (SMART goals)
Study Skills, prioritizing, calendaring
47. “The heuristic for crap detection is to make skepticism
your default. Don’t refuse to believe; refuse to start out
believing.” Howard Rheingold
48. We use social media in
the classroom not because
our students use it, but
because we are afraid that
social media might be
using them– that they are
using social media
blindly, without
recognition of the new
challenges and
opportunities they might
create. Michael Wesch
49. One of the side effects
or what we call
collateral learning for
kids who do engage in
geeked out, interest
driven activities is that
when start engaging in
knowledge or media
production, you tend to
develop a much more
sophisticated
understanding of how
knowledge and media is
produced more
generally.
Mimi Ito quoted in
Rheingold
51. That is why we are
optimistic: because we
know it can be done.
We know a whole
world of pressing social
problems can be
improved by peer
networks, digital or
analog, local or global,
animated by those core
values of participation,
equality and diversity.
That is a future worth
looking forward
to. Now is the time to
invent it.
