Raw notes on John Mikton’s workshop on Digital Citizenship.

Go from global issue to local/individual issue. Twitter and blogs helped arabic-spring youngsters telling outer world what was going on in their countries. Shift in the balance of power. Autocratic countries are defeated even when cutting down the internet as citizen can use mobile phones to route their msg through phone operators (own for the most part by the same autocratic states). Death threats on Alexandra Wallace at UCLA to serve as example on who has ownership on digital content! TED talks as exemple of positive way of using technology in schools. Kiva website to show how to leverage socnet to improve people’s lives. The concept of ownership started changing from kids perspective. Downloading music illegally for example isn’t considered thieving, despite it being strictly it. Digital basket concept during sleepovers to be dug in and further explained. Sending nasty comments from behind a screen: the senderfeels nothing, the recipient is hurted twice as much!
Setup socnet (facebook, blogs) that serve academic purposes. Look for Jack Black video on youtube. Intellectual property for little ones, try to impersonate kids drawings. Think before you post! (look for video). Autumn Edows video. ISP provides 6 workshops a year for parents (3 mornings 3 evenings) on Facebook access settings, privacy, copyrights, information overload. Involve PFA as of January! Re-read Byron review, plus ITSE docs on Digital Citizenship.
Critical aspect is to find ‘air time’ to get e-safety and DC to be delivered and cultivated throughout school.
Creative comments plugin for Firefox to teach kids copyright. Directly links pics found on Google Images to their source in Flickr. Impressive. Make sure everyone does that.
Heading to closure conference.

Bonne soiree a tous 🙂