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Digital Citizenship: Student Tools to Establish a Positive Digital Citizenship Employers, colleges, and scholarship organizations are scouring the internet to get a sense of our students--what will they find? As educators we have a moral imperative to educate, initiate, and establish the positive web presence of our students. Primarily for the teachers who are not as tech savvy as they wish they were, you will be ready to begin the process next week and have students develop their positive web citizenship by the end of the month.
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“I Googled You”Student Tools
to Establish a Positive Digital
Citizenship
David F. Cain—Secondary Curriculum Coach, [email protected]
I don’t remember that, but it must be
true...
Have you ever googled yourself?
In 2013, 48% of employers performed
internet searches on all applicants.
Career Builder Survey, 2013
What do your digital footprints tell us about who you are and what
kind of employee you will be?
In 2013, 31% of colleges performed internet
searches on all applicants—an all-time
high
Kaplan, 2013
What do your digital footprints tell us about who you are and what kind of student you will
be?
Percent of applicants with negative search
results, impacting acceptance:2013—30%2012—35%
Kaplan, 2013
Students, now that you know we are watching you, are you changing your online behavior?
Untagging photos
Changing user names on social network sites
Deletion of social media accounts
Increased privacy settings
The focus is on destruction, deletion, and avoidance, rather than attempting to build a positive digital citizenship.
Student Solutions:
A successful candidate has built a brand—a brand that is that person’s repertoire of skills, interests, and positive interactions with peers.
What colleges and employers want to find…
Technology is explicitly referenced in nearly a quarter of the CCSS—and by implication, nearly half of the standards necessitate the student use of technology.
What do our students need to know and be able
to do?
Our new state standards…
Transliterate
Students Paving
the Way
.
.
Teachers are essential in the process of preparing students for the 21st century.• Students should be able to move between a wide variety of
media forms, gleaning information, ideas, and an understanding of arguments.
• Students should be able to express themselves in a wide variety of media forms, communicating information, ideas, and clearly reasoned arguments.
Building Transliteracy
Our digital moral imperative…It is our job, not only to warn and guide students about the proper use of the internet, but to assist them in establishing their individual, positive digital citizenship.
Moral
Imperative
Ahead!
We need to assist students in creating a distinct digital citizenship that is scholarly and professional; one that is truly reflective of the best aspects of each student.
The world is watching. Stake a claim in your skills, abilities, and
character.
Best place to start Have students create an email address, preferably gmail,
that reflects who they are—not [email protected], but [email protected] .
Have students perform all professional correspondence with teachers, schools, scholarship organizations, civic associations, employers, etc., using that address—keep the address clean.
POST:Posts under this
identity should revolve around scholarly
activities or interests.
CREATE:Have students create a distinctly professional
web presence.
COMMENT:Comment on the
professional sites of peers and experts in
field students are interested in.
Linkedin:
Twitter:
Google+:
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Follow colleges and leaders in the field that students are interested in—post content and link relevant sites
Establish a professional profile of scholarly interests and connect to experts and other like-minded people
Google+ adds Facebook-like elements and additional features to increase a students SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
Stage One: A Soft Start
Google Sites:
Blogger:d
Have students create blog entries on topics related to class—use it as the medium for significant assignments
The easiest way to have students create webpages and professional content—consider creating online portfolios utilizing google sites. As you build, have students include images, audio, video, and even podcasts that exemplify the scholarly pursuits of your students.
Stage Two: Let’s Build
Kidblog.org:d
No email address, no outside access, but a place to practice digital creativity, collaboration, communication, and critical thinking
Paving the way for younger students…
Beware of
potholes
.
.
A word of caution..• All content must be informational, professional,
or academic—not personal.• All interactions must remain objective and
professional.• The focus is on topics and issues, not people.
What can they do?