Digital Citizenship Week is coming!
Next week is a time set apart to promote Digital Citizenship -- kind of a big deal in Indiana! (http://www.doe.in.gov/elearning/digital-citizenship/digital-citizenship-week)
So how do you know when digital citizenship education has worked? When you have successfully educated good digital citizens? What is the measure for "good" digital citizenship?
Good to know that I am timely and in good company with my quest -- In July of this year, Patrick Cole explored available assessments for evaluating Digital Literacy (of which Digital Citizenship is a key component)in this blog from the Emerging Ed Tech: http://www.emergingedtech.com/2016/07/assessing-digital-literacy-standards-tools-techniques/
His conclusions:
Let me take a step back at this point and ask all those initial questions again...
So how do you know when citizenship education has worked? When you have successfully educated good citizens? What is the measure for "good" citizenship? ... but this time take out the word "digital".
I think I know what I want for my own children when I think about them being good citizens, something like doing their "civic duty", being responsible, kind, patriotic, helpful. But can you be a good citizen and not be particularly patriotic or a kind person? (rhetorical question there)
Easier for me to understand why it is so very difficult to quantify a measure of digital citizenship when I try to quantify a measure for "citizenship". And why even ask the questions this way? Our world is becoming so integrated with, reliant on, and infused with digital technology that very soon there won't be a viable distinction between "citizenship" and "digital citizenship" at all.
Maybe it isn't the end measure that is really the point... maybe the key is just the continual and unrelenting efforts to help each and every one of our students make responsible, kind choices, digital and otherwise.
Need some ideas for Digital Citizenship week?
http://www.doe.in.gov/elearning/digital-citizenship/plan-digcit-week
So how do you know when digital citizenship education has worked? When you have successfully educated good digital citizens? What is the measure for "good" digital citizenship?
- I knew about the leveled assessments through Common Sense Education that overview the units of study as part of their Digital Citizenship curriculum: (http://assessments.commonsensemedia.org/). These are a good resource, with the primary outcome being a great opportunity for students to reflect on information gleaned during the curriculum study.
- In a search for other measures, I found this site:
- http://digital-id.wikispaces.com/Teacher+Tech+Tools, which offers a Digital ID Survey.
- And then these two with other great resources for developing good digital citizens (but not necessarily assessments).
- But none of this was quite what I had in mind....
Good to know that I am timely and in good company with my quest -- In July of this year, Patrick Cole explored available assessments for evaluating Digital Literacy (of which Digital Citizenship is a key component)in this blog from the Emerging Ed Tech: http://www.emergingedtech.com/2016/07/assessing-digital-literacy-standards-tools-techniques/
His conclusions:
- Assessing student digital literacy skills is increasingly necessary.
- Standards addressing these skills have been under development for years and by a variety of authoring organizations, with ISTE's recently-released student standards perhaps the most comprehensive and widely-used.
- Standardized assessments based on ISTE's standards or other Digital Literacy tools are not available at the K-12 level.
- For now, teachers are the best hope to developing and deploying pre-, formative, self-, benchmark, and summative assessments.
Let me take a step back at this point and ask all those initial questions again...
So how do you know when citizenship education has worked? When you have successfully educated good citizens? What is the measure for "good" citizenship? ... but this time take out the word "digital".
I think I know what I want for my own children when I think about them being good citizens, something like doing their "civic duty", being responsible, kind, patriotic, helpful. But can you be a good citizen and not be particularly patriotic or a kind person? (rhetorical question there)
Easier for me to understand why it is so very difficult to quantify a measure of digital citizenship when I try to quantify a measure for "citizenship". And why even ask the questions this way? Our world is becoming so integrated with, reliant on, and infused with digital technology that very soon there won't be a viable distinction between "citizenship" and "digital citizenship" at all.
Maybe it isn't the end measure that is really the point... maybe the key is just the continual and unrelenting efforts to help each and every one of our students make responsible, kind choices, digital and otherwise.
Need some ideas for Digital Citizenship week?
http://www.doe.in.gov/elearning/digital-citizenship/plan-digcit-week