In 2015, I was working as a high school library media specialist while also completing courses for my doctorate in curriculum and instruction leadership. Like many of you, I had been tasked with teaching digital citizenship in my school. And, like many of you, I turned to the internet to see what resources I might find to help.

 

To say that I was disappointed in what I found was an understatement. In those early days, digital citizenship lessons seemed rooted in the assumption that all teenagers were either bad actors who went online to cause trouble or were naive victims who could be lured from their homes by an online predator. In my gut, I knew we could do better. 

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Digital citizenship curriculum became the focus of my doctoral studies and for close to a decade now, I've been on a mission to "teach digcit differently."  Thanks for joining me in the work.