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Create digital literacies in others and yourself Process - Digital Citizenship Scavenger Hunt Directions: Click on the links and read the information presented, then answer the questions on the answer sheet about the link you visited. Digital Citizenship: 1. 2. 3. 4. Internet Safety: 1. 2. Safety Game: 1. Parent Safety Resources: 1. 2. 3. Jan's Illustrated Computer Literacy 101: Computer Basics You don't have to know everything to be comfortable with computers. But there is a lot of information that will help you understand why things are the way they are... and how disaster can strike! "Knowledge is power!" What's in these lessons? The lessons in this Computer Basics section of Jan's Illustrated Computer Literacy 101 explain a lot of the techno-babble that you hear about computers. Consider this set of lessons "Beginning Driver's Ed" for the computer. The topics covered here will introduce you to a similar set of topics about computers. Computer Basics does not require you to touch a computer, except to read the lessons. If you are using this site as part of a class, your instructor may have you do only certain sections or do them in a different order. Are you ready? For more detailed lessons on software, try the tutorials on Windows,the web, word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, and databases.

Learning Through Digital Media On Digital Natives, Immigrants, Residents and Visitors - and implementing technology? | Brains Dave White wrote about his Digital Resident/Visitor model on the TALL blog back in 2008 ( and it has been well received. I have recently been thinking about the Digital Native/Immigrant idea of Prensky again, and finding a lot of the criticism of it to be focussed on a particular point, and somewhat lacking in critical reasoning, so I thought it about time I went back and looked at Dave White's model too. It is established in the opening paragraph that Prensky's work is not seen as being useful because it "does not help guide the implementation of technologies it simply provides the excuse that “some people ‘just don’t get it’ which is why your new approach has failed so badly…”". But the good news is that the Resident/Visitor model exists for a different purpose. Looking at the descriptions of Resident and Visitor The choice of words in the two descriptions are interesting. Whereas, for the Visitor we see :

9 resources for teaching digital citizenship How can we teach kids to use technology responsibly when the technology is changing faster than we can keep up? How do we foster the values of good digital citizenship in students who are old enough to scoff at the “thou shalts” and “thou shalt nots”? Grappling with these questions is just the beginning of the digital citizenship conversation. Most educators recognize the need for it, but many are at a loss for how to teach it. Some have tried creative approaches and failed. In classrooms where digital citizenship is taught effectively, the teachers often share two things in common: They model ethical technology use for their students on a daily basis, and they naturally incorporate conversations about it whenever technology is part of their lesson plan. Here are some resources to help: 1. 2. Technology is changing faster than teachers can keep up, leaving many educators struggling to develop a cohesive digital citizenship curriculum. 4. 5. 6. 8. 9.

Senior's Guide to Computers - A Beginner's Tutorial for the Microsoft Windows PC, hardware, software, security, accessibility, internet, backup and email 4 Sets of Introductory Computer and Internet Technology Interactives A collection of web based interactive activities to introduce students to computers and the Internet. It was my pleasure to deliver presentations on “Using Popular Social Networks Tools in Course Work” and “Flipping The Classroom: Succeeding with Reverse Instruction” for our faculty here at The College of Westchester on Monday. While discussing the use of interactives and simulations as one way to supplement online digital materials for reverse instruction, an instructor asked if I had come across any interactives geared towards an introductory computer and Internet course. I hadn’t, but I welcomed the challenge! I searched the web a bit and while I did not find a lot of materials specific to this subject area, I did find some. First, we have two sets of interactives from the Utah Education Network. Computer & Internet Interactives for grades 3 to 6.Computer & Internet Interactives for grades 7 to 12. Next is this set of Internet Safety Interactives from GCF LearnFree.org. Print This Post