Reflection & Evaluation : Digital Citzenship

Wiki Editing and Authentic Research
The team I was in was the Digiteen Digital Etiquette group, where we posted our information on on our Digital Etiquette Page. I thought that the best research was to go to the previous digiteen digital etiquette wikipage (which i stumbled upon by accident) and read off the information from there. That wiki was very good, and was already summarized, and posted great links, which i also researched. I found that there were more ideas that i overlooked, such as email etiquette, which i contributed to the wiki because most of my team overlooked it too. The links that they had were also great, and it had looked like it was fully, thoughroughly reserached, and a lot of effort was put into it.

The links that i had found useful were:
A website where the real-life stories of misuse of the internet through bad digital etiquette
Tips for basically managing and improving how to seem to people online
previous Digital Etiquette page which helped me a LOT with my offline action project
Golden Rules Of Email Etiquette provided information about the overlooked Email Etiquette

I really think that Charlie Gandarais contributed a LOT!! So did Miller (or millerpaige). They both heavly contributed to the wiki, and tried to communicate with the other team members, while some others sparsely replied, while others just ignored Charlie, Miller, and my requests, and comments. All the team members contributed to the wiki greatly, but did not give others the oppurtunities to excel! I thought our wiki turned great, and that we covered every nook and cranny (or is it hook and granny??!?!?!) of digital etiquette.

My Personal Learning Network (PLN) was very helpful, especially google docs. Igoogle, i will keep forever, because it is THE BEST HOMEPAGE... this is because it joins google docs, reader, and google search all in one. I especially loved google docs because we got to share our documents, PDF's and powerpoints, This helped gather my research into one place, and allow my classmates to put in their research too! The best part was that we were able to upload quickly. And i still use google docs to this day!! I really think that diigo was useless here, because i already have my google reader, and notepad to post my stuff. I would have used Diigo if i didnt have google, but google is just too good!

Action Project
For the digiteen action project, we solely relied on the Digiteen Digital Etiquette Page, we created a wiki using our lesson. We couldnt put the video on due to cultural reasons. But we managed to put the lesson on there, including the videos we used, and the powerpoint. To tell you the truth, we didn't have a script like everyone else did. We didn't believe in one. We thought we could accomplish more by talking to the 4th grade students, instead of telling them.

Personally, I thought that our action project went VERY well. by the end of the lesson, we were able to get almost the WHOLE class involved, and we had questions, comments, and inquires all through our presentation. At the end, we decided to have a roleplay, because some of the kids convinced themselves that they wouldnt be hurt if people didnt treat them right, they ended up learning that people should be treated the same way you wanted to be treated. I think that if we found an interactive online game to teach digital etiquette, it will be more effective than the presentation.

Our team could have communicated our ideas more, where we all had great ideas, but we never shared. We could have been more organized, where the videos where the incorrect format, and we should have helped each other more often. Fatimah worked REALLY hard on this project, and she really excelled. She helped with everything, and tried to overcome all the issues we had without freaking out (like I did). Fatimah and I worked well together, and really hard too.


Digital Citizenship
I think that schools should develop and teach digital etiquette in their curriculum, since teaching kids will be much better than teaching adults, and teens who got used to habits already, and probably cant get rid of them. This is because, most of the teens and adults are used to treating people in a certain way, and we cant teach and old dog new tricks. But , if we taught the kids through a fun way, they would teach it to their cousins and relatives, where everybody would play a game, and they would be secretly learning. Soon they would be saying "but the teacher said its rude to interrupt people when they are typing" or they would say "but in this game in school we learnt..."

I learnt that basing your knowledge on experience is the best soloution. For both our projects, (offline action, and digiteen) we used others people experiences, and other experiences too. I also learnt that being organized is 3/4 of the work, because once you set it all up, and have 100 tiny little steps, eventually, you would be breezing through all of them. I also learnt that it is always good to listen to other people, because under that keyboard, or computer personality, they could be a whole other person, and they could even surprise you!

Digital Ettiqute

I am in the 2B group; the high school and middle school section.
This means that i have to find out information about Digital Etiquette.

I found this very interesting question on digiteen, If you're a member reply! Let me see what you think!

DISCUSSION:

Where do you draw the line between having fun and being inappropriate online? Is it different online than offline?

I think that the line is drawn when its the kind of fun you wouldn't want your parents to see, or watch.. That goes for all public profiles and social networking sites and chats. If people can identify you, nobody would say something like that *e.g when you wouldn't say it to someones face, or in a street, you shouldn't say it online, in public* Anyone can access anything online, no matter how secure the privacy. You just need the right tools. What i'm trying to say is that having fun should be on facebook, not on Digiteen- Where its a website for ***Digital Citizenship for Teenagers***. Sure, you can socialize, appropriately.
What I'm saying is that the question isn't when you draw the line, its where you choose to act upon the boundaries of that line, of having fun and being inappropriate.

Digital Safety article: Parental Tools

Article: Internet Safety Tools That Can Protect Your Child
Author: N/A
Blog: More Hot News

Main Idea: This article, titled: Internet Safety Tools That Can Protect Your Child (<--click to read) talks about the dangers of the Internet and how you can keep your child, and information safe. This article focuses on parental tools that you can use to limit, or monitor your child's actions online. One example is the parental tool, that blocks certain websites, or keywords, that are searched/accessed. You can also block certain information from being sent. Another parental tool is the keystroke trackers, which log everything that your child types. This is being argued as an invasion of privacy, but most parents use it to catch their kids talking to predators online, or when they are being involved with someone without the knowledge of the parents.

Problems/Issues: The issue tackled in this article is the issue of Safety online, and Information Security. It also faces the issues regarding privacy, when parents monitor their chills online actions.

Solutions: Internet Safety tools are suggested in this article. These may allow websites to be blocked, stop information from being sent (phone number, address, name, credit card number, passwords, etc.) , and log every word typed on that computer.

Nine Elements of Digital Citzenship

Definitions & Research;;

Digital Access: The full participation of all of society digitally online.
Digital Commerce: the buying and selling online (Ebay, Amazon.com...etc.).
Digital Communication: The exchange of information/ideas/thoughts online(digitally).
Digital Literacy: Teaching of digital citzenship and its role education-wise (Flat Classroom..etc).
Digital Etiquette: Appropriate behaviour online, the standards set globally about how to act online.
Digital Law: The legal end. Copyright, infringment laws, privacy policies. (Terms of agreement that you SHOULD read... but we all know you DONT)
Digital Rights and Responsibilities: The rights given to a digital citzen. (The right to have control of who sees what, again, privacy policies)
Digital Health and Wellness: Your physical well being, the things that are associated with computers (Eye saftey, light sensitivity, special conditions that induce strokes, etc.) as well as phsychological well being (no cyber-bullying....etc.) LEARN MORE: Physical, Physcological
Digital Security: the precautions taken (digtally) to ensure one's saftey. (again, privacy policies that ask you to add someone as a 'friend' on facebook/myspace...etc. not giving out private information unless that was approved by the owner of the account.) [this will go up in flames if someone finds out your password!]

STAYING SAFE ONLINE

A Great Link to Digital Citzenship

Growing up Online

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kidsonline/

Living their lives essentially online:
Excluding socially, many people do live their lives online, take for example, the dozens of people who quit their jobs to work in Second Life, a virtual reality 'life' where its 'Your world, Your imagination.' or its 'your world, your way' In the future would we all be sitting in stools goggle eyed and use the computer to move an avatar that represents you?
We might all as well be living on EuroAsia in one big building with cubicules and just 'live'. That might be in the near future- consider office jobs!
Ridiculous isn't it?

Well .. ... Isn't it?

Check Out Second Life for me, Tell me what you think

Growing Up Online

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kidsonline/

The child predator fear:

NOTE: PLEASE CONSIDER THE INFORMATION BELOW

NCVS data on juvenile crime victimizations reported to police and other authorities indicate that:

• Only 28 percent of violent crimes against juveniles become known to police

• An additional 16 percent of violent crimes against juveniles are reported to some authority other than the police, mostly school officials.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: PLEASE GO TO http://www.ncjrs.gov/ and search for your query and read the statistics! They Are SHOCKING!!!


Considering these statistics, and the open nature of the internet, its very easy to see ho much fear parents these days have, and why. Their children meeting new people online, setting up appointments, and then the worst is to come. A participant of this documentary said: "My fear isn't that I have bad kids, my fear is that my good kids will make a bad descision, one bad judgment, and pay for it permanently". This is reality, if not monitored, kids (meaning EVERYONE who is younger that 18) can make a bad descision, and it would severly hurt them.
people think that kids that THINK they're are old enough, are old enough to have a computer in there room , to meet people you don't know about. That's wrong, im not saying that you should choke them into leaving the house to accsess the internet, but monitor, and keep them close, and TALK... thats the best thing to do in this situation.

Internet safety

Videos:

Clare thought she knew:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VCTN26umVA

Cyber bullying- talent show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seOQyMvG99w

Links:
www.ncpc.org/cyberbullying

Growing Up Online

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kidsonline/

CyberBullying:

This story was so sad, and very disturbing. I think that it was a big mistake that the father gave his son a computer to put in his room, and didn't ask him more about the bullying. I think that the father should have been more active in his sons life, knowing who his friends were and communicating regularly to his sons friends. Thus, he could have avoided the suicide if they would've just talked more. the girl was really mean, and it was totally unnecessary to go to that length.

Growing Up Online

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kidsonline/

Private Worlds Outside Parent's Reach?:
This was very disturbing; personally i think its pretty disgusting that there is a GURU for being anorexic...
There are actually girls who WANT to be anorexic and PRAISE each other on how much time they can STARVE themselves and how many times they can PURGE out there stomachs contents. This is WRONG, terribly, its one thing being anorexic because of peer pressure, but to want to be anorexic... and get PRAISED for it.. its DISGUSTING.
The concert?
Very disturbing that parents have to find out about their kids being in a hospital because of binging...and then a third of the parents are mad at the person who informed them!
3 hospitals had to CLOSE BECAUSE THEY WERE FILLED WITH DRUNK KIDS!!!!!
WHEELCHAIRS TO TRANSPORT THE DRUNKS RAN OUT!!

i think that those two statements speak for themselves..