8 digital life skills all children need – and a plan for teaching them A generation ago, IT and digital media were niche skills. Today, they are a core competency necessary to succeed in most careers. That’s why digital skills are an essential part of a comprehensive education framework. Without a national digital education programme, command of and access to technology will be distributed unevenly, exacerbating inequality and hindering socio-economic mobility. What’s your DQ? The challenge for educators is to move beyond thinking of IT as a tool, or “IT-enabled education platforms”. Like IQ or EQ – which we use to measure someone’s general and emotional intelligence – an individual’s facility and command of digital media is a competence that can be measured. DQ can broadly be broken down into three levels: Level 1: Digital citizenship The ability to use digital technology and media in safe, responsible and effective ways Level 2: Digital creativity Level 3: Digital entrepreneurship Why are we neglecting digital citizenship? There is no need to wait. Share
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The Power of Educational Innovation: A Design Thinking approach to Digital Citizenship Design Thinking is a problem solving methodology used by people all over the world to come up with new ideas. Recently there has been a lot of discussion about how to integrate this approach into education. This summer I took two Online courses to learn more about the process. This fall I decided to apply this approach to my 7th grade Digital Citizenship unit which focuses on cyberbullying. Here is my lesson plan. Cyberbullying Design Thinking Activity (for 7th graders) Empathize Present the idea “How might we end Cyberbullying?” Define: Students share with the class what they learned about cyberbullying from their research. Groups generate 5 new “How might we" questions that are more specific (based on the research collected.)Groups share their new “How might we” questions with the class.Each group chooses a How might we question to focus on (It doesn’t have to be one of their own and it can be the same question as another group). Ideate: Prototype: Test: Groups share their commercials.
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Come educare cittadini digitali: necessario un framework nazionale Che l’implementazione del digitale nei contesti educativi viaggi ad una diversa velocità rispetto alle capacità e agli strumenti che la scuola ha a disposizione per farsi istituzionalmente carico di una seria e sistematica educazione alle competenze digitali, è questione non di poco conto. La scuola sa bene che, al di là delle categorie in cui sono stati variamente ascritti i propri utenti – nativi digitali, net generation, generazione app, ecc. – bambini e adolescenti si muovono con sufficiente destrezza tecnica tra i numerosi dispositivi, ma non certo con competenza. Ne sono testimonianza i molti episodi con cui la scuola si scontra sempre più spesso, atti di piccola o grande pirateria informatica, uso scorretto dei canali di comunicazione, flaming e cyberbulling nei social. Sappiamo che il tema delle competenze di cittadinanza digitale è previsto tra le azioni imminenti del PNSD e si prova in questa sede a formulare alcune proposte operative:
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