EDU 6433 Digital Citizenship: Citing Sources, Differentiation, Digital Etiquette, and Participation in Global Community

The fourth ISTE standard regarding digital citizenship is based on four main ideas. These pertain to the necessity for teaching how to properly cite sources, differentiate effectively through the incorporation of technology, promote proper digital etiquette and set good examples for students regarding online communication, and modeling the participation in global communities in order to promote the spread of knowledge, information, and collaboration for the greater good of the world.

The digital citizenship poster I have created reflects these four main ideas. The program standard, front and center, is broken apart (as above), analyzed, and summarized. Information about the importance of citing sources and an example of how to cite a source in a reference list is provided via modified and unmodified inforgraphics from the CSUSB John M. Pfau Library (2014a, 2014b). Information about analyzing the veracity of sources is provided via the CRAAP Test framework established at California State University (2010). Digital etiquette and the global community are discussed with reference to Dwyer's (2016) ideas of how teachers must promote global literacy, as well as provide students with the background knowledge necessary for them to begin to make their own informed and culturally responsive decisions. With this ability, then the collaboration of students/classrooms/teachers not only serves the local communities, but global communities as well, further promoting the idea of mutual respect and collaboration to better the globe - ideas made even more plausible with the use of increasingly complex technology.

A poster as such could easily be digitized or displayed in print form. It is scaled to be 3' x 4' when printed, but could certainly be scaled smaller without having the text become illegible. The use of original and adapted infographics should serve to draw attention of those keen to visual stimuli, and the use of concise, bulleted text in certain situations, and summary in others, allows for display of a variety of pertinent and necessary information relevant to the subject of digital citizenship and its four main components.

Digital Citizenship Poster

Reference List:

California State University (CSU), Chico (2010). Evaluating Information – Applying the CRAAP Test. https://www.csuchico.edu/lins/handouts/eval_websites.pdf

CSUSB John M. Pfau Library (2014a). Citing Sources Infographic. http://library.csusb.edu/cillab/?page_id=121.

(2014b). Parts of a Citation Infographic. http://library.csusb.edu/cillab/?page_id=121.

Dwyer, B. (2016). Teaching and Learning in the Global Village: Connect, Create, Collaborate, and Communicate. The Reading Teacher 70(1): 131-136.