Making digital citizenship personal, making it applicable for students is important, and also inhibited by the lack of consequential thinking experienced by High School students. I would focus on a few key areas around relationship and communication: managing your digital footprint, developing empathy in spite of passive aggressive tendencies, and mindfulness around the illusion of zero consequences. In managing their own digital footprints, I would focus on their dreams, what they hope to accomplish and how they reflect that in their real life communication and persona. This would be contrasted with the myth in digital communication that there are no consequence. Students would be asked to note that they have different personas they operate in the real work and online. The goal is to recognize these difference, why they arise, and what the effect would be if their online actions where done in real life. The learning gap here is to notice that passive aggressive communication online exasperates the teenage tendency to not recognize consequences. Evoking critical thought around the topic may allow students to access more agency for themselves. This would also be connected to creating a digital footprint that benefits your college and career goals; more colleges are reviewing digital footprints to see if students have the maturity to contribute to a positive campus culture making it relevant. For teens there is an inability to see consequences for actions, this is due to immaturity of frontal cortex development, but this void can be bridged in many ways. Promoting empathy in real life and digitally, may help make connections to cause and effect. Basically, revealing that actions taken online, can have a long lasting, and impactful effects, students could be asked to reflect on situations where they were the actor and receiver in negative digital citizenship. Finally, I would focus on mindfulness around the illusion of zero consequences to digital citizenship. Accessing the Rings of Responsibility may help to see how actions online can affect real life. I would begin with a case study, then move to a real world example that the students have experienced. Specifically, examples they have experienced within digital communication that they can recognize a failures, and have a chance to self-reflect on better/different strategies. This would also allow for a component of Social Emotional Learning (SEL) to emerge. Digital citizenship is rooted in SEL, with the goals of awareness around action, responsibility and nonviolent/effective communication. This is an important SEL growth area, as digital citizenship has the potential to be the primary persona experienced in the current, and certainly future generations. Link to Digital Citizenship Lesson Plan: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4SSJsllVWmhZE9UVDEwLXdvZ1U/view?usp=sharing
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todd
2/13/2017 08:13:01 pm
Wow, once again Zachary, you have delved deeply into your subject and how it can best be presented to your clientele. Specifically, I found, "In managing their own digital footprints, I would focus on their dreams, what they hope to accomplish and how they reflect that in their real life communication and persona" to be perfect.
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