digital citizenship and social media
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Digital Citizenship
Karen Blumberg @SpecialKRBhttp://KarenBlumberg.com
● Independent K - 8● 1:1 = iPads in K-2, laptops in 3 - 8● Designated Technology Integrators● Diverse population of students● 50% Columbia, 50% Community ● Integrated, differentiated, progressive
curriculum
The School at Columbia University
Our classrooms
Our classrooms
● 3rd grader deleted all the editors to the Newspaper's shared Google Site.
● 8th graders teasing each other by changing fonts on a shared Google Doc.
● 6th graders friending each other on our in-house social network.
● 5th graders cleaning up their lunch table.
Recent teachable moments
● Gangs in Anne Arundel use social media to recruit and intimidate
● Promote digital citizenship...10 ideas for rich academic student discussions on the internet
● 10 social media commandments for kids and parents
● Tweens on Facebook and Emoticons Overload
Relevant articles:
●Google Apps ●The Gallery (photos) ●The Tube (videos)
●The Social Network
Our walled garden includes...
Collaboration, Media, Literacy
How is this any different?
ISTE's NETS for Students
ISTE's NETS for Teachers
ISTE's NETS for Administrators
Henry Jenkins and the New Media Literacies
@HenryJenkins
The new media literacies: a set of cultural competencies and social skills that young people need in the new media landscape. Participatory culture shifts the focus of literacy from one of individual expression to community involvement.
Henry Jenkins, et al.
Multi-tasking
Distributed Cognition
Collective Intelligence
Transmedia Navigation
Example of Appropriation 6th Art Renaissance Photoshop Students discussed copyright, ownership, fair use, media literacy, and image maniupaltion throughout history while using Photoshop to edit a Renaissance painting.
Example of Performance6th English Misfits digital profiles
Students created faux profiles for characters from The Misfits.
Example of Visualization7th Math/Science Gapminder World
Students discussed, analyzed, represented, and defined Big Data.
Collective IntelligenceIndependent Reading Site
Students in grades 4-8 collaborated on a shared Google Site to keep track of their independent reading, share book reviews, and social network about literacy.
Book Ring Cards (pre-IRS)
The Independent Reading Site
link to IRS Google site
link to IRS Google site
Using the IRS
link to IRS Google site
Key Features of the IRS
● Search ● Share● Revision history● Comment
1. Everything you put online is public, permanent, traceable.
2. Use our technology academically, respectfully, responsibly.
3. Make wise choices.4. We are a community.5. There's no such thing as privacy
online. It's public versus less public.6. The only thing worse than kids
behaving badly are adults behaving badly.
Crafting character