Real Life Literacy

&

Digital Citizenship

BCTLA 2013

Jennifer Branch, PhD Associate Professor and Coordinator, University of Alberta Joanne de Groot, PhD Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Alberta Miriam Gilbert Director, Rosen Digital

Why is it important?

PRIVACY PLAGIARISM COPYRIGHT SAFETY COMMUNICATION CITATIONS BULLYING ACCURATE RELATIONSHIPS RELIABLE SOURCES REPUTATION IMAGE

Why is it important?

• • • • • • How can I convince my friend that he mistook the tone of my e-mail without him getting even angrier?

Where can I turn if my computer or cell phone is hacked?

How can I support someone who’s being cyberbullied without becoming a victim myself?

If Wikipedia is an unreliable source, why is it so popular?

Why can musicians create mashups of different songs but I can’t use paragraphs from different articles to write a paper?

Will government legislation limit what I can do on the Internet?

How can we help?

The THREE “P”s:

POSITIVITY PRIVACY PRECISION

Positivity

POSITIVITY is all-encompassing!

In your interactions:  Consider others (COURTESY)  Be honest (ETHICS)  Think about the impact (RESPONSIBILITY)

Positivity The Cyberbullying Epidemic

What kind of impact will your words have?

Credit: http://ilccyberreport.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/bully1.jpg

Positivity Where to Turn:

• • Free Resources  B-free.ca

 Bullying Ends Here  Erase Bullying  Kids Help Phone  Need Help Now Share Your Own Experience 

Personal Story Project

Teen Health & Wellness

Positivity Should I Share This?

Look at What You’re Sharing… • • • What are you doing?

How are you dressed?

What are you saying?

And Ask Yourself… • • • • Should I be doing this?

Would I wear this in public?

Would I say this to my parents/teachers?

Is this going to embarrass me in a year?

Your profile is an extension of YOU—make sure that you present yourself well!

Credit: http://www.socialf5.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/teens-and-social-media.jpg

Positivity THINK before you SHARE.

Credit: http://www.technologyrocksseriously.com/2012/01/before-you-speak-think-again.html

Privacy

How Private IS Your Profile?

Privacy

Protecting Your Privacy

Your full name and address aren’t the only things that can identify you!

THINK before you share:

• • • • • • • Your current location Where you go to school Where you work Your birthday Your cell phone number Your activities and plans Any online passwords Credit: http://digitalliteracy.rosendigital.com/staticfiles/articles/images/DIGLIT48_image013.jpg

Privacy Your Digital Footprint

What you share is there to stay!

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Privacy

The Key is to Educate!

Outside Resources: • • • • • • Common Sense Media CyberSmarts & Teen

CyberSmarts

(more here !) Digital Literacy

Internet DOs and DON’Ts

Media Smarts Privacy Commissioner of Canada

Precision

Information Overload!

143 million results!!

Precision

Questionable accuracy?

A kindergarten student wants to Google search “naked butt” to get pictures of the minions from Despicable Me. What kind of results do you think he’ll get?

Precision

Understanding the Resources We Use

S.U.R.E.

is a nation-wide campaign by Singapore’s National Library Board to promote the importance of information and discernment.

Credit: http://sure.nl.sg/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/NILB_AboutUs_A2_FA-72dpi.jpg

Precision

Why Plagiarism & Copyright Matter

Nineteen-year-old Kaavya Viswanathan had a stellar start to a writing career with the publication of her first book, How

Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild,

and Got a Life. Her career as an author crashed, though, when it came out she’d “borrowed” the words of many other writers in writing her own novel.

No excuses could save her work or her reputation.

Credit: http://digitalliteracy.rosendigital.com/article/443/plagiarism

Precision

Inspiration or Imitation?

Know the Difference!

• • • Plagiarism.org

What is Plagiarism?

Digital Literacy

Copyright and Digital Ethics

Digital Literacy Credit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Plagiarism_vs_Copyright_Infringement.png

Digital Citizenship is Essential!

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And don’t forget to…

T.H.I.N.K.

Credit: http://www.technologyrocksseriously.com/2012/01/before-you-speak-think-again.html

THANK YOU!

Jennifer Branch, PhD [email protected]

Joanne de Groot, PhD [email protected]

Miriam Gilbert [email protected]

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