Creating effective digital citizens
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Creating Effective
Digital CitizensNorine Gaskill
Professor PentlinLIS 5260
02 April2012
What is a Digital Citizen?
The jury is still out on this one, but currently they are considered people who use technology as a tool to accomplish their work.
How do they become EFFECTIVE
digital citizens?
In the beginning...
Students struggled to find adequate resources.
Now...
Students struggle to stay afloat the waves of information.
Information Overload Leads to “BAD” Things
Digital Citizenship leads to MORE Digital CRIME
It is NOT Okay
More to fear...
Moving past the FEAR can bring you to amazing things!
Beyond thinking of digital skills as a lone topic in schools.
Getting it in the CURRICULUM
This is the expectation the world has of our digital citizens:
What’s the point?
They have no idea!
Gather and Make Sense
Preparing our students to be
ACTIVE participants.
Think Critically
Spam
&Filter
Google it!Search...
Communicating&
Collaborating
Show your students how to get their heads in the cloud(s)!
It is not just about convenience and entertainment.
Creating a Community
What can libraries do?
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