Digital citizenship education and issues are difficult to "teach" children because of the transitory, emerging nature of many of the issues. Explore the tools and strategies used in a global collaborative project, Digiteen (www.digiteen.net), used to teach digital citizenship to middle and early high school students. Additionally, learn how these students are empowered to develop and deliver compelling digital citizenship education to elementary and middle grade students in a compelling, hands-on digital citizenship action project.

Participants will explore the project, join a Diigo group for Digital Citizenship (http://groups.diigo.com/groups/Ad4dcss), harness the power of a digital RSS reader, learn how to share and locate digital citizenship educational tools (http://www.netvibes.com/coolcatteacher#Ad4dcss) and create digital portals of information for parents, teachers, and others.

Outline (for BYOL)

I. Backchannel and Introduction - (We will maintain a backchannel for this session to answer questions and facilitate discussion among those who are more advanced as introductory material is covered.)

II. Digital Citizenship Education.
A. Overview of tools and projects in use
B. Grassroots Movement of Teachers to connect and how to connect with others (http://www.netvibes.com/coolcatteacher#Ad4dcss)
C. Staying current (important resources to add to your RSS reader)
D. Diigo bookmark sharing group

III. Digiteen
A. Project Overview and Links
i. Digiteen Ning (http://ning.digiteen.net)
ii. Digiteen Wiki (http://wiki.digiteen.net)
iii.Digiteen Bookmarking Group (http://diigo.digiteen.net)
B. Strategies and Tools for Facilitating Student-led mentorship and education programs.
C. Case studies and methods

IV. Digital Citizenship Best Practice
A. Overview of 9 aspects of Digital Citizenship and issues for each along with resources.
B. Examples of digital citizenship education courses.

Supporting Research

The work in Digiteen has been based upon the ISTE book by Mike Ribble and Gerald Bailey, Digital Citizenship in schools. Additionally, ISTE nets standards require that digital citizenship is an essential aspect of student awareness, practice, and learning as it relates to technology.

Digital Citizenship is an issue that is vitally important as educators work with Acceptable Use Policies as discussed in Edutopia's recent article on appropriate behaviors - http://www.edutopia.org/netiquette-guidelines.
Additionally, as character education programs become updated for the digital age, many schools are seeing and predicting a renewed effort to help children understand appropriate online behaviors (see Edutopia's recent article on Character Education - http://www.edutopia.org/whats-next-2008-character-education).

Many online safety programs such as iSafe are creating student mentorship programs to facilitate effective teaching of younger students about online safety. See (http://www.isafe.org/channels/sub.php?ch=op&sub_id=3).

Peer mentorship, global collaboration, and participative projects that focus on digital citizenship bring together many of the trends in education include bringing character education online. TEachers need practical ways in order to do this.

Vicki Davis and Julie Lindsay are co-creators of the Digiteen project (http://www.digiteen.net) and other award winning global collaborative projects and considered leaders in project based learning due to their extensive citations in Reinventing Project Based Learning by Suzie Boss and Jane Krauss, published by ISTE. This is their project based approach to teaching digital citizenship. Anne Bubnic is part of the team that created the award-winning CTAP IV Cybersafety Project and the CTAP IV Middle School Math Project. All three presenters are co-founders and administrators of the grassroots effort of teachers, Advocates for Digital Citizenship, Safety and Success (http://ad4dcss.wikispaces.com.)

Presenter Background

Vicki Davis - Teacher and IT Director - Westwood Schools, Camilla Georgia; co-winner SIGTEL's Online Learning Award 2007; Taking IT Global Best Online Learning Project 2006; Edublog Award for best Wiki 2006; Wikispaces Wiki of the Month December 2005; Edublog Finalist for Best Teacher Blog 2006; Finalist Edutopia's Totally Wired teacher Award 2007; Contributor to Wikis in Education by Stewart Mader, Brown University; Authored articles for Cable in the Classroom magazine, Leading and Learning, Technology and Learning; Bi-weekly blogger at Techlearning.com; Author of the popular Teacher Blog Cool Cat Teacher; presenter at NECC 2007, 2008; presenter at the Future of Education Conference, K12 Online 2006, 2007, 2008; Maine Technology Conference 2007; Illinois technology Conference 2008; Tech Forum - Chicago 2007; Georgia Educators Technology Conference 2006, 2007; Keynote Presenter at the Center for Quality Teaching and Learning at Columbus State University Columbus, Georgia; Keynote 2009 - North Carolina Technology in the Classroom Organization; Google Certified Teacher; Computer Using Educators 2009 and other conferences.

Anne Bubnic is a county specialist in the Region IV office of the California Technology Assistance Project (CTAP), a state-funded agency that provides technology leadership support to over 100 school districts in the San Francisco Bay Area. She was formerly the technology specialist for a K-5 school and in that capacity worked with classroom teachers and over 500 students a week on integrating technology into their curriculum. She also worked as a classroom coach for over five years, as head of a countywide project that brought mobile labs into schools on a rotating basis. Anne’s earliest experiences with parent, child & teen technology issues were as the children’s software expert for a nationally syndicated radio show, On Computers. She is part of the team that created the award-winning CTAP IV Cybersafety Project and the CTAP IV Middle School Math Project. Anne has been a speaker at local, State and National Conferences, including NECC, CUE, the California Math Council Conference and California League of Middle School Conference.

Julie Lindsay
Brief Bio:
* Education highlights: MA Music from La Trobe University, MA Educational Technology Leadership from George Washington University in Washington, DC.; IBO MYP and DP training
* International Educator, currently Head of Information Technology and E-Learning at Qatar Academy, Doha, State of Qatar
* An enthusiastic, global-minded education leader and innovator. Originally from Melbourne, Australia over the past 10 years have been teaching and leading the use of technology in schools in Zambia, Kuwait, Bangladesh and Qatar.
* Co-founder of the Flat Classroom Project and Co-winner ISTE's SIGTEL's Online Learning Award 2007 and Taking IT Global Best Online Learning Project 2007 for the Flat Classroom Project
* Member of ISTE International Committee and contributor to ISTE's Learning and Leading magazine as ICT specialist
* Recognized worldwide for her innovative programs using a wide array of Web 2.0 tools and ubiquitous mobile technology programs to transform learning for the emerging digital, "world-is-flat" educational landscape.
* A frequent presenter on the world stage, including NECC 2006, 2007, 2008, Learning 2.008, ECIS 2007, GETEX Dubai 2008 and others See http://julielindsaylinks.pbwiki.com
* A tireless volunteer leader for professional associations, and an inspiration to colleagues and collaborators demonstrating just how different world-class education will be in this 21st Century.
Digital Portfolio: http://julielindsay.wikispaces.com/
Blog: http://123elearning.blogspot.com