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"From Plato to ′Leave it to Beaver,′ Jason Ohler places our struggles with digital citizenship in the context of humanity′s ongoing quest to develop good, productive, responsible citizens."--Joe Brennan, Instructor, Discovery Education, Wilkes University, Arlington Heights, IL

"Jason Ohler excels at showing how digital connections affect almost every aspect of school life. This is an important read for anyone wanting to understand technology′s impact on education."--Will Richardson, Author of Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms

An all-inclusive roadmap to citizenship in the 21st Century

Best-selling author, educator, and futurist Jason Ohler challenges all readers to redefine our roles as citizens in today′s globally connected infosphere. In exploring the various aspects of digital citizenship, he aligns its pedagogy with the ISTE standards definition. The book uses an "ideal school board" device to address fears, opportunities, and the critical issues of character education. These issues include

Cyberbullying, "sexting," and other safety concerns Students′ ability to creatively access and critically assess information Respect and ethics regarding copyrighted information Communicating appropriately in an expanded and public realm

Rich with examples, professional development and classroom exercises, resources, and policy perspectives, this book will resonate with educators, parents, and anyone interested in the merging of education with technology and its impact on our children.

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• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• Introduction - Remembering My High School Library
• Preamble - Our Choice for Our Children: Two Lives or One?
• Part I The Call to Digital Citizenship
• 1 Becoming Digital: The Road to Digital Citizenship
• A Short History of Educational Technology
• A Short History of ISTE Standards
• 2 Perspectives on Citizenship and Community
• An Academic's Apology
• An Extremely Short History of Citizenship
• The Evolutuion of Community: From Farmland to Facebook
• Three Levels of Community in ISTE Standards
• You: Where Local, Global, and Digital Communities Intersect
• 3 Gathering Digitally
• We Talk Differently
• Two Special Cases - Reading Yourself and International Communities
• Perspectives on Organizational Communication in Digital Community
• Edward T. Hall and the Proxemics of Virtual Space
• Guidlines for Virtual Behavior
• Guidelines for Creative Online Learning Communities
• Part II Seeing Technology
• 4 What Bothers Us About Technology
• Fear is the Mind Killer
• Facing Our Fears
• Ubiquity
• Invasiveness
• Vulnerability
• Amplification
• Reducation
• Misreality
• Ephemeralness
• Permanence
• Indisconnectability
• Overwhelment
• Resocialization
• Sovereignty
• Dehumanization
• Obsolescence
• 5 Seeing Technology: A Primer
• Noticing Technology
• Seeing Exercises
• Seeing by Getting Philosophical
• What's Your Technology Mantra?
• What's Your School's Philosophy?
• 6 Becoming a "De-Tech-tive": Helping Students Understand Technology's Impacts
• Becoming De-Tech-tives
• Technology Connects and Disconnects
• Essential Questions of the De-tec-tive Process
• The De-tech-tive Process
• Assessment Tools
• A Case Study of Conditional Acceptance: The Case of Digitally Retouching Photos
• A Favorable Project - The Energy Self Study
• Teling Stories
• McLuhan's Tetrad
• Part III Character Education for Digital Citizens
• 7 Imagining the Ideal School Board
• Partycipating - Setting the Stage
• What Concerns Us - The Extreme Edge of Freedom
• From Issues to Programs
• Lessons From the Past
• The Ideal School Board
• Background Materials for Creating an Agenda
• Our Agenda
• 8 Agenda Item 1: Your Ethical Core
• What Is Your Ethical Core?
• Consider an Issue
• Stirring the Muddy Water
• An Ethical Framework: Categorical vs. Consequentialist
• Discussing Ethical Issues with Students
• 9 Agenda Item 2: A Crash Course On Kids
• Agenda Item #2, Topic A: What's Different About Digital Community
• Agenda Item #2, Topic B: Moral Development in Kids
• Agenda Item #2, Topic C: Brain Development, Kids and Moral Thinking
• The Future of Neuro-Morality Research
• Helping Students Develop Character
• 10 Agenda Item 3: Character Education for the Digital Age and the Case of the Ideal School Board
• Connecting Digital Citizenship And Character Education
• The Essence Of Character Education
• A Short History Of Character Education
• Character Education Begins With Values
• Character Education Standards and Evaluation
• 11 Agenda Item 4: Literacy in the Digital Age
• Shift From Text-Centrism To Media Collage
• Value Writing, Now More Than Ever
• Adopt Art as the Next R
• Blend Traditional And Emerging Literacies: Practice The DAOW
• Harness Both Report and Story
• Practice Private and Participatory Social Literacy
• Develop Literacy Not Just With Digital Tools, But Also About Digital Tools
• Pursue Fluency Rather Than Just Literacy
• 12 Agenda Item 5: What Role for IT?
• Reconceiving Your IT Department
• What Do Teachers Want from Administrators? Help Talking to IT
• Opening Up the Flood Gates
• ISTE Standards for IT Personnel?
• Epilogue - Advice? Of Course!
• Consider the Attitude the Aptitude
• Don't let the Perfect Be the Enemy of the Good
• Don't Be Ruled by Concerns, Be Ruled By Goals
• References
• Index

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Learn more about Jason Ohler's PD offerings Jason Ohler is a speaker, writer, teacher, researcher, and lifelong digital humanist who is well known for the passion, insight, and humor he brings to his presentations and writings. He is author of numerous articles, books, and teacher resources and continues to work directly with teachers, administrators, and students. Combining twenty-five years of experience in the educational technology field with an eye for the future, Ohler connects with people where they are, and helps them see their importance in the future development of living, learning, and working in the Digital Age. Although he is called a futurist, he considers himself a nowist, working nationally and internationally to help educators and the public use today's tools to create living environments that we are proud to call home.