Digital Citizenship is a complex issue. The future of the digital world is not written. This non-linear Keynote presentation attempts to show the issues and how educators, parents, students, and business must work together to determine the digital landscape of the future.

1. Digital Citizenship

2. In the mid-1990s educators in the United
Kingdom began working toward
establishing protocols for good digital
citizenship. The concept of digital
citizenship began with the belief that it is
the responsibility of all online users to
interact with each other with dignity and
respect.
With the advent of Web 2.0 the concept of
digital citizenship evolved to encompass
more than just the responsibility of all
online users to interact with each other
with dignity and respect.
Today’s digital natives are engaged in the
online world in ways never dreamed of
before. The future of this online world
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harness and use its potential.
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4. The Internet Has Changed!
Web 1.0 Web 2.0
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5. Web 1.0 Was Static
• It was a one-way information highway.
• It was a one-way flow of information through websites
which contained 'read-only' material.
• There was widespread computer illiteracy.
• It involved slow Internet connections which added to the
restrictions of the Internet.
• It was application-based and applications needed to be
purchased.
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•It was single creator content, meaning one person created
the content and posted it.
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6. Web 2.0 is different.
It is a new frontier.
• It allows software developers and users
to use the Web in a participatory way.
• It has moved from personal websites to
blogs, from publishing to participation.
• It is collaborative, many times involving
multiple collaborators.
• It is increasingly free with less need to
purchase applications.
• It allows for creating and sharing content.
•It is faster.
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7. Web 2.0 is different.
It is a new frontier.
• It allows software developers and users
to use the Web in a participatory way.
• It has moved from personal websites to
blogs, from publishing to participation.
• It is collaborative, many times involving
multiple collaborators.
• It is increasingly free with less need to
purchase applications.
• It allows for creating and sharing content.
•It is faster.
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8. Digital Natives? Who are they?
• Born after 1980, digital natives are
those who access and use
technology.
• They study, work, write, and
interact with each other in ways that
are very different than any other
generation.
• Digital natives have always known
a digital life; it is a part of their lives.
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Cultures are being created
Digital natives are not only in the physical
actively engaged in the world but the digital, virtual
Web 2.0 participatory world.
culture. They are
growing up in a culture Digital natives need to
which is global in scope understand the possibilities
and nature. their global culture brings
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10. Identity
Digital Natives are living a life online. From chats on AIM to comments on MySpace to vlogs
on YouTube they are presenting themselves, interacting with others, and publishing their
thoughts, desires, and experiences on the Internet for others to see. They are experimenting
with identity. Howard Gardner, the founder of multiple-intelligences theory shares the
Privacy research from the last 15 years of The Good Play Project about the ethical sense of young
people and their sense of identity.
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11. Privacy
Living online 24 / 7 digital natives are recording many details of their lives. The
norms for privacy of shifting. The digital dossiers digital natives are compiling
Identity may include some digital tatoos they wish they could remove. Yet, it is not the
digital native alone helping to create these digital dossiers. For many digital
natives the ability to control the information that proliferates about them on the
Web will decline with each passing year of their lives.
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12. Safety
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90% of tweens have used the Internet by the time
they're 9 years old. Online safety concerns are not new.
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in the offline context that predates the Internet.
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Nonprofit organizations such as CommonSense Media can
help parents support good decision making online.
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13. Information Overload
Identity Separating inaccurate information from the truth is a process as old as civilization.
The rate at which new information is added to the Internet often creates an
increasingly frequent state of having too much information to make a decision or
remain informed about a topic. For digital natives this slows down their work
production as they struggle to differentiate good information from bad. Learning skills
to manage information will be important for digital natives.
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14. Intellectual Property
Digital natives are engaged in creating and sharing work. The Internet provides
digital natives with endless opportunities to access content, new ways to create
Identity content with it, and audiences to appreciate it. Some, but not all of this
production uses others’ intellectual property. This movement toward digital
creations and online creativity is about sharing. It is social and collaborative.
This new growing participatory culture will have an impact on intellectual
property law.
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Through the use of new technologies young people can have an impact on the
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political, economical, social, and cultural process. Chinese youth used online bulletin
boards to organize across geographic boundaries to protest, while young Iranians use
microblogs to make their voice heard when the state was shutting down media
outlet.
Safety With all this international participation questions arise such as how do responsible
young people (and adults too) participate in a two-way conversation with the news
gatherers and pundits? How can well-informed readers of all ages evolve into
trustworthy citizen journalists and writers, upholding lasting principles of “good
journalism?” These questions and others will have to be studied to ensure that the
Internet has a positive impact, not a negative one, on political, social, economical, and
cultural process.
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17. Parents can make a difference.
Parents need to become informed to be credible
and knowledgeable about the digital world.
Parents need to have conversations with their
children about the issues that present challenges
for digital natives.
Parents need to share in their children’s online
experience to learning from their children what
they are doing online.
Parents need to set limits on Internet use and
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mature.
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18. Businesses Can Help
Businesses can help by providing security
features and privacy features that protect
individuals.
Businesses can help by taking action to
contact law enforcement agencies when
they encounter issues that threaten their
consumers’ rights to privacy and security.
Consumers of these online businesses can
pshab help by lobbying businesses to develop
safe, appropriate online environments.
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19. Educators can help.
Educators must understand how digital
natives interact in the online world.
Educators must engage students in
using online tools and learning
environments to provide opportunities for
discussions about appropriate, safe use
of online tools and learning
environments.
Educators must work with students to
teach them skills they will need to
manage information.
Educators can address the issue of
intellectual property as they work with
students who are creating new content.
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20. LAW
There are many positive aspects of Internet however
with these positive aspects come risks to safety,
including the dangers of sexual solicitation, online
harassment, and bullying, and exposure to problematic
and illegal content.
Work recently completed by the Multi-State Working
Group on Social Networking, comprising 50 state
Attorneys General, to determine the extent to which
today’s technologies could help to address these
online safety risks, in the United States. This work is
one of many steps in the right direction toward
protecting our youth in the digital world. More work
Stéfan like this will need to be done. Sharing the research,
data, and insights from this work with parents,
businesses, and educators will be valuable in helping
all partners provide digital natives with support and
guidance as they navigate the online world.
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21. Sources
Digital Dossier. Dir. Kanupriya Tewari. Perf. Andy. YouTube. YouTube, 13 Aug. 2008. Web. 13 Aug. 2009. <http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=79IYZVYIVLA>.
Digital Youth Portrait: Cameron. Dir. Ken Ellis. Perf. Cameron. Edutopia: What works in Education. Edutopia, 27 May 2009. Web. 17
Aug. 2009. <http://www.edutopia.org/digital-generation-profile-cameron-video>.
IDC Information Overload Chart. 2008. Photograph. Adam_Thierer Photo Stream/Flickr. Flickr-IDC Information Overload Chart.
Adam Thierer, 14 Mar. 2008. Web. 08 Aug. 2009. <http://www.flickr.com/photos/adam_thierer/2333232442/>.
Palfrey, John, and Urs Gasser. Born Digital. New York: Basic Books, 2008. Print.
All other photographs in this presentation were licensed under CreativeCommons and were obtained from www.flickr.com.
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