Promote+and+Model+Digital+Citizenship+and+Responsibility

**Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility** (Group D) Teachers understand local and global societal issues and responsibilities in an evolving digital culture and exhibit legal and ethical behavior in their professional practices. Teachers: __Grant __ a. **advocate, model, and teach safe, legal, and ethical use of digital information and technology, including respect for copyright, intellectual property, and the appropriate documentation of sources.
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 * **Firstly, the teacher is the example and model in the classroom. The teacher must be informed first before they can inform their students about safe, legal, and ethical use of digital information and technology.**
 * **Copyright Issues and Website Links:** []
 * **Respect for Intellectual Property: []**
 * **Citing Sources: []**
 * **Teachers must teach their students about what plagiarism is and the seriousness of not giving credit to a source.**
 * Below is a link to a 2004 Education Digest article titled, ' Don't Let Students "Overlook" Internet Plagiarism': []
 * (Note: In order to view the above link, you must sign in using their Piedmont EZProxy login.)
 * This is a PowerPoint that a 2nd grade teacher developed. After reading the above article, she realized that she needed to explain to her students about copying things from the internet. They had no idea that they needed to give credit to the source from which it came. Her only concern was whether they could really grasp the importance of this at the young age of seven: [|**http://www.scribd.com/doc/6210228/Melanie-HInquiry-Project-1**]
 * Penn State has a great link to FAQ on ethical and legal use of digital media: []

**__Carnes__ b.** address the diverse needs of all learners by using learner-centered strategies and providing equitable access to appropriate digital tools and resources
 * **Special-needs solutions: use technology to reach every learner in your classroom (Electronic Learning). This website contains useful information for educators regarding the use of technology to reach all learning types, including those of special needs learners.**
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 * **Educators wrestle with digital-equity challenges. This website instructs teachers on how to ensure access to digital learning opportunities for all students.**
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 * **Learner-centered teaching strategies. This website contains articles that discuss postsecondary strategies that promote "thinking like a professional".**
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 * **Mobile technology goes to school. This website explores the educational use of cell phones to keep classroom lines of discussion open around the clock.**
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 * **Technology and multiple intelligences. This website provides teachers with an opportunity to link various technology tools with multiple learning styles/intelligences such as kinesthetic, linguistic, logical, visual, interpersonal, etc.**
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 * **Differentiated instruction. This website provides multiple sources/links for differientiated instructional methods including the use of technology to meet the needs of diverse learners.**
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 * **Related articles of interest:**
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 * [|Distance Learning: Universal Design, Universal Access] by Sheryl Burgstahler.
 * [|IMPLEMENTING THE SEVEN PRINCIPLES: Technology as Lever] by Arthur W. Chickering.
 * [|Lessons for Everyone: How students with reading-related learning disabilities survive and excel in college courses with heavy reading requirements] by Roxanne Ruzic Harvard University and CAST, Inc.
 * [|Using Learning Styles to Adapt Technology for Higher Education] by Terry O'Connor.
 * [|Creating a Community of Learners Among College Faculty Through the Use of Reflective Practice] by Cheryl M. Jorgensen, Ph.D., Joseph J. Onosko, Ph.D., & Cate Weir, M.Ed. University of New Hampshire.
 * [|Universal Design for Learning]
 * [|Reflective Practice]:

**__Clark __ c.** promote and model digital etiquette and responsible social interactions related to the use of technology and information 
 * **Digital Etiquette (Netiquette)**
 * Digiteen - provides resources for students and teachers including videos, and written introductions to various issues related to netiquette and safety
 * http://digiteen.wikispaces.com/Digital+Etiquette
 * National Science Foundations website - provides lesson plans that focus on digital etiquette. Many of the lessons are designed for the undergraduate level, but others are for middle or high school. "Considering the Americans with Disablilities Act (ADA)" (middle school); "The first computer - An Ethical Concern" (high school); and "Analysis of incidents of unathorized access" seem to be the most applicable.
 * http://www.nd.edu/~kwb/nsf-ufe/exercises-overview.html
 * Plagiarism Detection
 * http://www.plagiarismdetect.com/
 * //Netiquette// by Virginia Shae. This website contains a electronic version of this book, as well as basic rules and a netiquette quiz
 * http://www.albion.com/netiquette/
 * Study Guides and Strategies. This sight serves as an introduction to netiquette and contains a sample document that outlines the "10 Commandments of E-mail Netiquette
 * http://www.studygs.net/netiquette.htm
 * Net Manners. A very comprehensive sites; includes blogs, articles, video, and links
 * http://www.netmanners.com
 * **Responsible Social Interactions**
 * Science Direct. Identifying the pitfalls for social interaction in computer-supported collaborative learning environments: a review of the research. This is a Kreijns, K. Kirschner, P.A., Jochem, W. A research article on social interactions through technology in a collaborative classrooms
 * http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6VDC-47PG7JY-6&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=44b32606be5a5dd2b67f6d0d9a65b0bb
 * US Department of Justice. Links to numerous other sites related to internet safety and responsibility
 * http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/links1.htm
 * Open Directory Project with AOL. Links to numerous other sites related to internet safety and responsibility
 * http://www.dmoz.org/Kids_and_Teens/Computers/Internet/Safety/
 * Net Smartz Kids. A very kid friendly website that promotes safety and responsibility in technology. Contains movies, music, games and other activities.
 * http://www.netsmartzkids.org
 * Think U Know website. Designed for teachers and trainers to help teach children ages 5-16 safety and responsibility when working with technology. Contains films, presentations, games, lesson plans and posters cover.
 * http://www.thinkuknow.com/teachers/
 * Chat Danger. Provides activities geared toward children to help them learn how to interact safely on phones, emails, chats, games and instant messenger.
 * http://www.chatdanger.com
 * Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. Is an long article directed toward teenagers urging them to take responsibility of technology and to encourage others to act safely.
 * http://xblock.isafe.org/docs/Student_Toolkit.pdf

__**Jackson**__
 * d.** develop and model cultural understanding and global awareness by engaging with colleagues and students of other cultures using digital-age communication and collaboration tools
 * **Communicating in your classroom with people from different cultures.**
 * [|Communicating Across Cultures in Georgia Classrooms]
 * **For this subject, there are many books that discuss how to communicate effectively with people from different cultures. Here are a few books that are available on Amazon. com.**
 * [|Communicating Across Cultures]
 * [|Bridging Differences]
 * **Teachers can become more globally aware of how to use technology to communicate with people of different cultures. In this study, it was tested to see if using technology actually helped students become more aware of different cultures.**
 * [|Enhance Teachers’ Global Awareness through Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).]
 * **Despite the age of students, teachers can come up with many different ways to implement global awareness in their classroom.**
 * [|Global Awareness in grades 9-12]
 * [|Global Awareness in grades K-5]
 * [|Global Kids]