#diglit

       Digital Literacy is about knowing how to navigate social media and understanding others and how it is used to utilize it. Digital citizenship is how oneself uses social media and the decisions that impact one's well being. Such as understanding what is being consumed online whether it is trustworthy or whether it makes people feel good. Digital citizenship is also understanding how to create content that is worthwhile and trustworthy as well. Digital literacy is understanding media and the diversity of others that are on it and how to communicate and collaboration with others, while digital citizenship is about having the content be in a positive manner for the common good and beneficial consequences. Literacy helps us understand how to use citizenship for the good.

        According to Barbra Bray and Kathleen McClaskey, digital literacy is not just about reading text  it also involves content which includes writing in digital format (Bray & McClaskey). This goes with what I mentioned before how to navigate through social media and understand but also being able to communicate and write. Whether it is in tweet form, blog, or instant messaging. Bray and Mcklaskey then describe digital citizenship as the norms of using technology as well as what is appropriate and responsible behavior (Bray & McClaskey). The key is to citizenship is appropriate and responsible while online. Respecting others but they didn’t seem to mention how to make it a positive impact which I believe is a very important part. Digital literacy is what one understands of what is appropriate or not; digital citizenship is to use the knowledge of what is appropriate to post content that hopefully has a positive impact on others online in the community.

        Nate Green in his article about teaching #DigCit and #DigLit says,

“The key to helping students make good decisions online is to mentor them in their spaces and allow them to pursue their interests” (Green).

Which I believe is a great way to incorporate learning. For adults and kids, going to a workshop per se and learning about how to use online while not being online, or even learning about sites that they may not even use would not be helpful The best way to go about it is teaching where they already are in the online world. Even in job fore, having specific guidance of digital literacy and citizenship among what media bases are used within the job. Green suggests identifying interests, modeling how to set it up, encourage creating and sharing, and practicing what you preach (Green). This shows how to encourage and support both digital citizenship and literacy. To model how to set up a social media account, how it is used, and the quirks to it which he mentioned all contains digital literacy of understanding. To encourage creating and sharing and practicing what you preach in a respectable way is digital citizenship. This could work with all ages, whether it is an account for a company or kids in school starting social media. 

Other Useful Articles/Videos:

Developing digital literacy skills 

      - https://www.webwise.ie/teachers/digital_literacy/

Common Sense Digital Citizenship Video

      - https://www.commonsense.org/education/video/digital-citizenship

Turning digital natives into digital citizens

      - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6cS9uR1NRA

Articles mentioned:

Green, N. (2019, March 12). Teaching #MediaLit and           

        #DigCit? Start with social media: ISTE International Society for Technology 

        in Education. Retrieved July 12, 2019, from           

        https://www.iste.org/explore/digital-and-media-literacy/Teaching-#MediaLit-

        and-#DigCit?-Start-with-social-media

Bray, Barbara & Kathleen McClaskey (2017, February 13). Digital Literacy and 

            Digital Citizenship. Retrieved July 12, 2019, from

            http://www.personalizelearning.com/2017/02/digital-literacy-and-digital-

What does curriculum prescribe?

E.g. health just of material body - does it account for transhuman cyborg students?

Where is this placed in curriculum? ICT? Citizenship/PSE?

Online learning, or online community - similar function for preparing students as work experience?

SOOCs not MOOCs

scaffolded learning opportunities

allow progression from novice to expert

prompted by the https://www.academia.edu/10651468/Not_MOOC..._SOOC

could schools use this as a dedicated period, with students using OOC to mediate learning - experience independence with limited risk to traditional learning objectives and institutional/ teacher concerns - exam results and performance (Ofsted, performance related pay etc)- Opportunity to bring what they learn in their own virtual world into the classroom and reflect -develop new digital literacies how quickly would this be commercialised and measured?

Other points can be considered