Digital Citizenship

This is my second reflective blog post on the #DigCit Summit , which was held on 10/28/16 at Twitter Headquarters in San Francisco. I had the pleasure and the privilege of speaking on a panel regarding “What’s Next for Digital Citizenship,” but also got to spend the rest of the day listening to other speakers in education, business, and technology. In my first reflective post, I replied to some speakers’ desire to remove the word ‘digital’ from the Digital Citizenship convers

This weekend (10/28/16) I had the honor and the pleasure of sitting on a panel of speakers during the # DigCitSummit , which was held at Twitter Headquarters in San Francisco. During this eight hour day of speaking, listening, and collaborating, there were several big ideas I felt compelled to write about as I reflected and digested my learning. Let’s start with the topic of this conference – “digital citizenship”: a term that has been living on the outskirts of academia for

There. I said it. Someone had to. Everyone is talking about #digcit right now. Maybe the term is finally catching on. Maybe it’s just the buzzword phrase school districts are using as they roll out 1:1 initiatives. Maybe these lessons have staying power; maybe they don’t. But I do know one thing….John Dewey would hate your #digcit curriculum. “Who is this John Dewey?” you ask. If you’ve ever taken a course in educational psychology, his name should ring a bell. Dewey was an