Digital Citizenship and the Balanced Approach to

Teaching

Welcome and PrayerHeavenly Father, we come to you today asking for your guidance, wisdom, and support as we begin this meeting. Help us to engage in meaningful discussion; allow us to grow closer as a group and nurture the bonds of community. Fill us with your grace, Lord God, as we learn new things, challenge one another, and make plans for our school communities.Continue to remind us that all that we do here today, all that we accomplish, is for the pursuit of truth for the greater glory of You, and for the service of humanity. We ask these things in your name. Amen

AgendaDigital Citizenship and the Essential Skills of 21st Century LearningExamining the Digital Citizenship ContinuumCollaboration: Integrating Digital Citizenship into lesson developmentDay of Pink in RCSD LUNCH

Examining the 7C’s and the integration of digital tools and apps in multiple subject areas

What is the Role of Digital Technologies in Education?

What does modern learning really look like at the level of a student’s desk?

What are the Essential Skills for 21st Century Learning?

21st Century Fluencies are the transferable essential skills that students need today and in their future. They are the fundamental elements of learning that are driven by pedagogy and help to leverage curriculum.

Check out our Digital Book on theEssential Skills of 21st Century Learning

Photo Source: Teach Thought

The 3 Digital Citizenship “REPs”

Source: Dr. Mike Ribble http:digitalcitizenship.net

Digital Citizenship Continuum Overview

3 Pillars of Digital Citizenship

RespectEducateProtect

The 9 Elements are under the 3 Pillars

What is the Digital Citizenship Continuum

Based On?

Work of Dr. Mike Ribble and the Nine Elements of Digital CitizenshipImage Source: Sylvia Duckworth

Respect Essential Questions:Etiquette: Are students aware of others when they use technology? Do students realize how their use of technology affects others? Access: Does everyone in school have equal access to technology? Do all students need to engage in a digital society?Law: Are students using technology the way it was intended? Are there rights infringed upon? Why should students using digital technologies be accountable for how they are used?

Source: Dr. Mike Ribble http:digitalcitizenship.net

EducateEssential Questions:Communication: Do I use email, cell phone and instant messaging technologies appropriately when communicating with others? What rules, options and etiquette do students need to be aware of when communicating with technology? Literacy: Does everyone in school have equal access to technology? Do all students need to engage in a digital society?Commerce: Are students using technology the way it was intended? Are there rights infringed upon? Why should students using digital technologies be accountable for how they are used?

Source: Dr. Mike Ribble http:digitalcitizenship.net

ProtectEssential Questions:Rights & Responsibilities: What rights and responsibilities do students have in a digital society? How do we make students more aware of their rights and responsibilities when using technologies?Safety & Security: How do students protect their technology in a digital society? How can students be taught to protect themselves and their equipment from harm?Health & Welfare: How can students be physically affected by technology? Are students aware of the physical dangers that can accompany the use of digital technology?

Source: Dr. Mike Ribble http:digitalcitizenship.net

• Integrate authentically

• Connect Digital Citizenship lessons to Curriculum to make learning stick!

• Lessons can go beyond just stand alone lessons, but connect to curriculum.

How Does Digital Citizenship Connect to Curriculum?

Source: National Canadian Common Curriculum Framework for Digital Citizenship in schools

Lesson FrameworkGoal: Take a current lesson you have, then restructure with the Essential Skills of 21st Century Learning or 7C’s with a Digital Citizenship focus

Use: Lesson framework for integrating 21st Century Learning Skills

Share: Please send or share a copy of your lesson with Jennifer Stewart-Mitchell

21st Century Skills Lesson Framework

• The Lesson Framework is a template that incorporates Digital Citizenship and Digital Fluency Integration into teaching• Framework Template – Click on the

link, go to Office365.• Exemplar Lesson –

Digital Citizenship and Politics • Download and save the template

for ideas in building lessons integrating the Essential Skills of 21st Century Learning

Digital Citizenship Continuum Exploration

Include in your Lesson:• Curriculum Areas: • Curricular Outcome(s): • Resources /Materials:• Websites and Digital Resources:• 21st Century Essential Skills:

• Digital Citizenship Concepts and Skills: RESPECT, EDUCATE, PROTECT • Digital Citizenship Essential Questions  • Essential Knowledge - See Digital Fluency Continuum• Knowledge: What will students understand? • Skills: What will students be able to do?

Resources for Building Lessons • Ministry of Education I am Stronger Resources for Educators

• RCSD Digital Citizenship Resources

Other resources not listed:• Edutopia “ Digital Citizenship Week, 6

Resources for Educators” http://www.edutopia.org/blog/digital-citizenship-resources-matt-davis

• Inctrl http://www.teachinctrl.org

When You Plan, Consider…

Think About Pedagogy• What’s best for learning

and your students?• What are the learning

needs of all your students? How do you differentiate?• How can you connect

students to peers to allow for further learning collaboration?

When You Plan, Consider…

Think About 21st Century Skills• What Essential Skill or Skills

do you want to explore?• How can these skills and

the use of digital technology leverage learning?

Check out our Digital Book on the Essential Skills of 21st Century Learning

Considering the Integration of Digital Tools

When You Plan, Consider…

Think About Curriculum•What outcomes and indicators do you want to achieve? •What Skills? Knowledge?

Empower High School Students to Act and Become Digital Upstanders

David Shepherd, Travis Price and their teenage friends organized a high-school protest to wear pink in sympathy with a Grade 9 boy who was being bullied, for wearing a pink shirt… They took a stand against bullying when they protested against the harassment of a new Grade 9 student by distributing pink T-shirts to all the boys in their school. ‘I learned that two people can come up with an idea, run with it, and it can do wonders,’ says Mr. Price, 17, who organized the pink protest. ‘Finally, someone stood up for a weaker kid.’

How Can Our Students Get Involved?

Pink Shirt Day Canada February 24, 2016

Promote and take partStart Artefacts for Promoting Digital Citizenship

International Day of Pink April 13, 2016

Take part and Share Artefacts with RCSD

What do you think? How can we make this work in our high schools? Day of Pink RCSD Click on the link and share ideas.

Integrating Digital Tools to Leverage Learning

What Does It Mean to be Literate?

What Does It Mean to be Literate?Literacy has always been defined by technology… we just haven’t always looked at it that way.

Forms of Literacy

Basic Data Global

Media Digital Citizenship Networked

What literacies are we connecting with in learning?

Looking at 21st Century LiteracyKey Question: How do we provide our students with an education for their future?

How can digital tools be meaningfully integrated into learning?

What apps or software have you used for teaching? Discuss and share on our Padlet discussion board.

How Do We Manage Information?

Information Hydrant, by Will Lion

Click on this Media Counter which shows the activity of Social Media and Mobile and Game Industry

CurateCollect and combine content and context through the use of digital tools by creating spaces where knowledge can be explored, categorized, contextualized, authenticated, connected, and created. Curators go beyond algorithms and passive consumption of massive amounts of information by actively gathering and categorizing information for relevancy, then sharing their collected content to assist others in the collective learning community.

Digital Skills: • plan strategies to guide inquiry• locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and ethically use

information from a variety of sources and media• evaluate and select information sources and digital tools based on the

appropriateness to specific tasks.• process data and report results

Tools to Support: RCSD databases, OneNote, Pearltrees, Diigo, Livebinder, Padlet, Bubbl.us, Yokto, Mindomo, Noodletools, EasyBib

Teacher Curating Pearl Trees

Benefits: • Free• Easy to use

Integration into Learning:• Curate and organize sites

Symbaloo

Benefits: • Free• Teacher's can curate their own sites

and gather them into one place.

Integration into Learning: • Allows for collaboration with other

education professionals for pooling information.

Teacher CuratingOther Teacher Curating Tools… Twitter!

• Cybraryman has a list of Twitter chat hashtags to get started. • Chats are useful places to discover

resources being used by other educators.

Student CuratingNoodle Tools and Easy BibBenefits:• Easy to set up student accounts• Free versions available

Integration into Learning: • Organize notes, summarize• Monitor and give feedback on research• Very powerful tools for collaboration and formative assessment in paid

subscriptions.• Citations

- Ethical use of information. - Bibliography tool

Easy Bib Research and OrganizationNote cards: recipe-like cards

• Link ideas to citation information, tagging • Useful for teaching paraphrasing and students

to record their own connections. • Teachers check student notes to see if they are

on right track.• Teachers provide formative assessment via self-

generated or pre-generated comments.• Aids in outline creation and the organization of

ideas.• Printable and accessible for teachers to check

student research while students are engaged in the process

Curating Tips for Students• Current - what is the publication date? Does currency

matter to this topic?• Reliable - Is the information trustworthy? Triangulate

sources - find the same information in multiple sources.• Authentic - Is there an author? What are his/her

credentials? If there is no author, is there a publisher? Who is taking credit for this information?• Purpose - Why is this information being published? Is

there a significant bias to consider? Have I found information to present a counter point-of-view?

How do We Communicate?

CommunicateSharing thoughts, questions, ideas and solutions. Communicating effectively orally and in writing with a variety of digital tools and styles as well as listening skills, tailored to a range of audiences. • Digital Skills:

• Create documents for communicating learning• Share ideas in multiple ways for a variety of purposes

and audiences• communicate information and ideas effectively to

multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats• Tools to Support: Office 365, OneDrive,

O365Groups, Word, Office Mix, student webpages, blogging, wikis, podcasts, email, social media

Communication is continuing to evolve in the 21st Century. It is critical that we support students’ ability to communicate not only face-to-face, but in digitally-enabled ways as well.

Communicate

Communicate and Share Learning

Students can communicate their summative learning using tools such as: Explain Everything Office MixSwayMoviemakerPowerPointThingLinkBlogging tools (Weebly Edu, Kid Blog)What works for you? Add to our Padlet discussion

Formative AssessmentFormative AssessmentUse Office 365 Groups, blogs, OneNote or even Excel forms to reflect on learning. Provide framework questions to help students reflect and self assess, as well as comment on the work of each other. Students can communicate their learning using Formative Assessment ToolsDigital Exit Slips: Excel Forms, Kahoot, Quizziz, Plickers, Formative, EdPuzzle, Zaption

How Can We Connect Learners with Technology?

Do students understand the power and benefits of connections in the globally-connected 21st century? Can students create meaningful networks using various digital tools and social platforms?

Do students make meaningful connections between their classroom learning, their personal lives, and the world around them?

Who is teaching our students to connect safely and effectively with their world?

Who is teaching our students to connect safely and effectively with their world?

ConnectExploring relationships between ideas and people from peers to members of community. Forming a networked literacy where one is able to find answers through shared purpose, and open networks. • Digital Skills:

• Contribute share & give feedback F2F or in web-based communities and digital platforms

• Explore best ways for communicating and sharing learning cross-generationally

• Tools to Support: Office 365 Groups, student websites and blogs, Skype, social media

Connecting is about bringing students together to explore ideas. Explore opinions and perspectives. Connecting ideas and concepts.

How can we connect learners and learning?

How can we use digital tools to forge connections? Are there projects that help to leverage connecting?

Connect

How Can Technology Amplify Collaboration?

Are students able to work together to reach a goal, drawing from the talents and expertise within the group?

Do students demonstrate proficiency in working collaboratively both offline & online? Can they transfer their interpersonal skills from face-to-face to virtual environments?

Do students work together to construct knowledge or solve problems better than what could be accomplished individually?

Collaborate

Working together to reach a goal. Putting talent and expertise to learn from and contribute to the learning of others.• Digital Skills: • Sharing projects and assignments, discussing ideas• collaborate, and publish with peers or experts using a variety

of digital platforms and media• contribute to project teams to produce original works or

solve problems.

• Tools to Support: Office 365 Groups, OneDrive, OneNote, Skype, blogs, Sway

CollaborateCollaborating is understanding how to work with others in multiple ways from face to face to online. Are students able to critically assess and reflect on their roles, responsibilities and collaborative process face to face and online? Are students able to understand the creative process through collaboration?

How can we use digital tools to assist with students collaborating face to face, synchronously and asynchronously?Possible tools: Padlet, TodaysMeet

Critical ThinkingUsing creativity to look at problems in a new way, linking learning across subjects. Plan, define problems, conduct research, design solutions and evaluate the process and outcomes.• Digital Skills:

• Plan and manage activities to develop a solution or complete a project

• Collect and analyze data to identify solutions and make informed decisions

• Research, track information, graph data, create timelines, graphic organizers, storyboards.

• Tools to Support: RCSD Databases, Excel, OneNote, Camera app, Word for graphic organizers

Critical ThinkingDo students use inquiry when approaching learning opportunities?

Are students critical consumers of multimedia?

Do students exercise media literacy skills that include critical analysis of a variety of information from a variety of sources ? Do students give careful consideration to both the message and the medium when considering the validity and value of information?

Critical Thinking

How Can 21st Century Skills Prepare Students for Lifelong

Learning?

CreateCreativity allows students to actively construct knowledge, pursue new ideas and create meaning through design, art, remixing and storytelling. • Digital Skills:

• apply existing knowledge to generate innovative ideas, products, or processes• create original works as a means of personal or group expression• use models and simulations to explore complex systems and issues• Remix ideas or software in creating new products or processes using

technology

• Tools to Support: • Apps like Comics Head, Explain Everything, Pixie, Videopad, Lightbot, Tynker,

Minecraft, camera – Try “smashing” or combining apps• Moviemaker, iMovie, Word, Photoshop, on-line platforms like Thinglink, Sway,

Vocaroo, Flipsnack

Integrating Digital Tools to Leverage

LearningHow can we provide

opportunities and inspire students to create their own

understanding?

Create

What Does it Mean to Create?

How can creating provide a space for voice? Creativity? How Can Classrooms Support Creativity with Remixing?What is the connection to digital fluency and digital citizenship?- Explain Everything- Comics Head- Infopics and Infographs- QR Droid- MindomoHow can students app smash?

Support CreativityActive Learning is CreatingStudents can support their learning through other tasks to support critical thinking, communication and creativity. Students my want to try making an InfoPic or Infograph – combines pictures with text layered on top to communicate a message.Infographs App to try:Explain EverythingComics Head Camera App on the device

Online resources to try: PowerPoint onlineSway InfoPic Example

Provide creative choice of tools and opportunities to

app-smash and remix

CitizenshipCitizenship is knowledge or sensitivity to show respect for other cultures and active involvement in addressing global issues. As well as understand human, cultural and societal issues related to technology and practice legal and ethical behavior. • Digital Skills:

• advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information and technology.

• exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that supports collaboration, learning, and productivity.

• demonstrate personal responsibility for lifelong learning.• exhibit leadership for digital citizenship.

• Tools to Support: Digital Citizenship Continuum, platforms for discussion and reflection like blogs and social media