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#DigCiz Reflections and a #DigPed Workshop
We just wrapped up a month long #DigCiz conversation and it was really unlike any of the others. It was bigger for one thing. I was informally running Twitter stats in the background and we consistently had between 200-400 people for any given week. Not massive by any means but growing. Though it was bigger…
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#DigCiz Week 4 – Big Data Big Dreams: waking up about data collection in edtech
It is week 4 of #DigCiz and Kristen Eshleman and Bill Fitzgerald are leading us in a week of discussion around data security and the part that higher education institutions play. In the prompt Kristen questions the context of EDUCAUSE’s top 10 issues in IT and information security’s place in the #1 slot saying “when you…
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What is DigCiz and Why I am Not Marina Abramovic: thoughts on theory and practice
Theory Alec Couros and Katia Hildebrandt just finished a round of facilitation in the #DigCiz conversation where they challenged us to think about moving away from a personal responsibility model of digital citizenship. In a joint blog post they spend time distinguishing digital citizenship from cybersaftey and present Jole Westheimer’s work identifying three different types of citizens…
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Associative Trails Around DigCiz, Fake News, and Microtargeting
Microtargeting: A Digital Citizen’s Perspective I started writing this post about fake news and microtargeting a few days ago and then I was reminded that #OpenLearning17 was talking about Vannevar Bush’s As We May Think this week. I began to see connections between how they might relate. It made this post even longer but I…
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What is Digital Citizenship?: recap on week 1 and announcing week 2 of #DigCiz
Last week was the first round of conversations that we kicked off about digital citizenship. I started off by presenting on digital citizenship with my colleague Jim Kerr during Martin Luther King day at Capital. It was nice to have a foundation of what Jim had done last year when he presented this topic on…
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Introducing #DigCiz: A “place” to discuss digital citizenship – My take aways from #HumanMOOC
What does it mean to be a person on the web? What is it like to think of the web as a place? As a group of people in a place what are our responsibilities to each other? I just finished up #HumanMOOC and it was a really good dance. I got to wax philosophic about…