This document proposes a new progressive model for digital citizenship called ABLE (Attendant, Balanced, Lifelong Learner, Empathetic). It consists of 5 components: being self-aware and other-aware online, balancing technology use in a healthy, moderate way, becoming a lifelong learner of digital skills, and showing empathy and care for others. The model is intended to teach digital citizenship skills to students through strategies like encouraging present moment awareness, moderate tech use, validating information, and developing compassion. It aims to intersect with other areas of teaching to promote well-being, self-expression and academic development through digital tools and relationships.

1. New Century Learning
A Progressive Model
of
Digital Citizenship
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3. Overview…
• Purpose-Story-Metaphor-
• Resources
• Digital Citizenship
• Definitions Old & New
• ABLE Model
• Intersects & Connecting Points?
• Promethean?
• Coherence

4. citizenship
ˈsɪtɪzənˌʃɪp/
Origin late Latin root “Civitatem”
1. citizenship, condition of membership in the
community and holding rights of a citizen.
2. the character of an individual viewed as a
member of society; behavior in terms of the
duties, obligations, and functions of a citizen:
e.g., “an award for good citizenship.”

5. So what then, is Digital Citizenship?
Please Have your say…
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6. Digital Citizenship models -past
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7. A (digital) Citizenship model
for the present:

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9. • attendant
• self-aware
• other aware
• reflective
of
 context
 cause & effect
 virtual vs. actual
 permanence
 consequences
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10. Strategies:
• Slow down, slow it down
• Advise students (and teachers) to log-into your self
before your devices or “grid”
• Encourage the practice of present moment
awareness
• How are you feeling physically?
• How is the weather outside?
• Promote mono-tasking, as opposed to multi-tasking
• Facilitate students looking, listening, and reflecting
with one another in person and their environment

11. • healthy
• moderate
• discerning
• dynamic
• flexible
• self-regulating
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12. Strategies:
-Slow down –slow them down
-Take frequent (tech) breaks, get them stretching, moving, physically
-Foster not just active but interactive, face to face work
-Promote the art of conversation via cooperative learning
-Suggest time out to get and be outdoors -set-up have buddy call
systems to encourage this
-Introduce timers or built in apps or programs that help self regulate
-Propose measuring the amount of time spent on devices daily
phone by looking at stats
-Offer different kinds of activities which are not strictly digitally
related like Maker Clubs, Debate, or MUN
-Mentor C&S projects that focus on these sorts of activities

13. • lifelong learning skills
• seek and research
• information validation
• attribution & citation
• appropriate use
• personal data management
• security & privacy
• digital literacy, fluency skills
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14. Strategies:
• address knowledge & skill acquisition proactively
• co-create a “(digital) Learning Agreement with the
community as a social compact for use of tech in school
• build a digital literacy program for the knowledge
economy that aims towards fluency, not just literacy
• have different milestones for emerging digital literacy
such as the passport digital licenses and passports
• engage peer learning with older students where older,
more learned students help teach those younger

15. • Sensitive
• Sympathetic
• Compassionate
• Supportive
• Caring
• Kind
&
 Communing
 embracing
 empowering
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16. Strategies:
• model: be sensitive to student’s needs
• promote caring and compassion
• encourage being supportive and other centered
• expose to students to such well know concepts “Paying Forward”
• empower through Agency focused projects e.g., social entrepreneurship,
philanthropy
• remind students to be a friend to themselves and others and capitalize on
opportunities through partner, and peer leanirng activities
• work to intersect other subject fields of curriculum areas e.g., ATL,
Pastoral, CA&S, to ensure that the connecting points
• use research based data to support understanding of the between the
relationship between things such as social emotional well-being, self
expression and development of academic skills

17. Intersects
&
Connecting Points
Academic Pastoral Community
(all stakeholders)
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18. Relative Quotes
“In kindergarten, you can learn how to be a citizen of the world”
–Jill Lapore
“Everyone has an internal compass, but adults need to teach children how to find and
use it.”
–Mike Ribble
“If one be gracious and courteous to strangers it show’s they are citizens of the world”
–Francis Bacon
“We’ve learned many ways how to teach our kids but where will they learn wisdom?”
–Pilar Quezzaire
“If you need information go to Google, if you need wisdom come to me”
–Sugatra Mitra to his children.
“As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of
your life.”
–Gautama Buddha

19. Resources
https://sites.google.com/site/newcentdigitalcitzenship/
Additional materials and information supporting and
related to this model and the general subject of Digital
Citizenship can be found at the site below:
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20. In Closing…
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Please leave with a smile after watching this: https://youtu.be/jyn526lSTcQ
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