Digital Community, Digital Citizen

Jason B. Ohler - Educator, Innovator, and Digital Humanist

Other Titles in:
Classroom Applications of Technology | Leadership | Leadership in Educational Technology

January 2011 | 256 pages | Corwin

A new perspective of citizenship has entered the public narrative: Digital Citizenship-a term that arises from the need to reconsider who we are in light of the globally connected infosphere in which we find ourselves. This book, for educators, parents, and anyone with an interest in the future of primary and secondary education in a digitally deluged world, addresses the role that schools and teachers can play in exploring, understanding and promoting digital citizenship within their profession as well as their classrooms.

Organized around and aligned to the common areas of interest about digital citizenship from the various standards groups, including ISTE and the 21st Century Skills, it addresses how to manage learning in the digital domain so that we can help students become life long learners who develop perceptions, perspectives and habits of mind that will allow them to navigate the digital age creatively and critically.

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Introduction - Remembering My High School Library

Preamble: Our Choice for Our Children: Two Lives or One?

Part I. The Call to Digital Citizenship

1. Becoming Digital: The Road to Digital Citizenship

A Short History of Educational Technology

A Short History of ISTE Standards

2. Perspectives on Citizenship and Community

Listening to the Ancient Human

An Extremely Short History of Citizenship

The Evolutuion of Community: From Farmland to Facebook

Three Levels of Community in ISTE Standards

You: Where Local, Global, and Digital Communities Intersect

3. Gathering Digitally

Changing Minds: The Altered Self

Perspectives on Organizational Communication in Digital Community

Edward T. Hall and the Proxemics of Virtual Space

Guidlines for Virtual Behavior

Guidelines for Creative Online Learning Communities

Some Closing Notes on Reorganizing Ourselves

Part II. Seeing Technology

4. What Bothers Us About Technology

Fear Is the Mind Killer

Facing Our Fears

Ubiquity

Invasiveness

Vulnerability

Amplification

Reducation

Misreality

Ephemeralness

Permanence

Indisconnectability

Overwhelment

Resocialization

Sovereignty

Dehumanization

Obsolescence

5. Seeing Technology: A Primer

Noticing Technology

Seeing Exercises

Seeing by Getting Philosophical

What's Your Technology Mantra?

What's Your School's Philosophy?

6. Becoming a "De-Tech-Tive": Helping Students Understand Technology's Impacts

A Matter of Balance

Becoming De-Tech-Tives

Technology Connects and Disconnects

Essential Questions of the De-Tec-Tive Process

The De-Tech-Tive Process

A Case Study of Conditional Acceptance: The Case of Digitally Retouching Photos

Issues Are Everywhere

A Favorite Project: The Energy Self-Study

Using Stories

McLuhan's Tetrad

Part III. Character Education in the Digital Age

7. Imagining the Ideal School Board

Party-Cipation: Setting the Stage

What Concerns Us: The Extreme Edge of Freedom

From Issues to Programs

Lessons From the Past

The Ideal School Board

Background Materials for Creating an Agenda

The Ideal School Board's First Agenda

8. Agenda Item 1: Helping Teachers Understand Their Own Ethical Framework

What Is Your Ethical Core?

Consider an Infosphere Issue

Stirring the Muddy Waters

An Ethical Framework: Categorical vs. Consequentialist

Discussing Ethical Issues With Students

9. Agenda Item 2: A Crash Course About Kids

Agenda Item 2, Topic A: What’s Different About Digital Community

Agenda Item 2, Topic B: Moral Development in Kids

Agenda Item 2, Topic C: Brain Development, Kids, and Moral Thinking

The Future of Neuro-Morality Research

Helping Students Develop Character

10. Agenda Item 3: Character Education for the Digital Age

Connecting Digital Citizenship And Character Education

The Essence Of Character Education

A Short History Of Character Education

Character Education Begins With Values

Character Education Standards and Evaluation

11. Agenda Item 4: Literacy in the Digital Age

Shift From Text-Centrism To Media Collage

Value Writing, Now More Than Ever

Adopt Art as the Next R

Blend Traditional And Emerging Literacies: Practice the DAOW

Harness Both Report and Story

Practice Private and Participatory Social Literacy

Develop Literacy Not Just With Digital Tools, but Also About Digital Tools

Pursue Fluency Rather Than Just Literacy

12. Agenda Item 5: What Role for IT?

Retuning Your IT Department

Taking the Next Step

ISTE Standards for IT Personnel?

Epilogue: Advice? Of Course!

References

Index

"The rationale for the importance of developing critical thinkers with a conscience for the rights of others was evident throughout the text. This book could easily become a field guide for administrators, school boards, and technology educators."

Roxie R. Ahlbrecht, Second Grade Math Teacher Leader

Robert Frost Elementary, Sioux Falls Public Schools 49-5, SD

"This timely and highly relevant title examines the impact technology has in the life of educators and their students. The book includes practical examples infused with infectious wit, helps educators appreciate the impact of technology in the world and the classroom."

Jamie Campbell

Library Media Connection magazine, March/April 2011 (Vol. 29, No. 5)