Digital Citizenship

A part of the 'Teaching and Learning' dimension of the eLearning Planning Framework is Digital Citizenship'.    I have been developing my understandings around this and how to increase the understandings of the teachers and students I work with.

As with the other dimensions, this is developed through 4 phases (emerging, engaging, extending and empowering). As with all aspects of teaching and learning there are many things which contribute to overall success - no one thing can be developed as a stand-alone focus.  For many teachers  'digital citizenship' is a new concept.  As is the idea of educating rather than rule-making. Schools I work with are spread between the 3 phases.   First of all I developed a digital citizenship page on my wiki (Lyn Ross edDesign) with information, links and videos.  This helped to develop my own understandings and to decide on the things I think are most important.  To develop teacher understandings I begin with a staff meeting and share resources - including the wiki page.    I then work with school leaders to develop a programme or guidelines for their school.  This can be done as a continuum which shows the foci for each level of the school.

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