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DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP WEBNIAR

I had the chance to attend the Digital Citizenship seminar this week and ask a question during the webinar to Dr. Marty Park.

My question was: How can we bring Digital citizenship to developing countries and international classrooms where technology isn't always present?

Dr. Park's response was the following:
Whatever technologies we have access to, there are ways to learn the key concepts and competencies of Digital Citizenship.
The core of Digital Citizenship is how to be a responsible, respectful and empowered person. He said that our real life and online life were merging at a rapid pace and we're trying to figure out how to do that really well. He insisted on sharing the common definition of what it means to be a Digital Citizen with people as well as hack the definition of Digital citizenship and making it our own.  He said ''Put a definition that would bring leaders together and share the systems around''.
He also said that we need to use whatever technology we have access to, that might not be AR or VR but might be the technology that we use in that country and learn through doing, living and being connected.

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  1. Lucie deLaBruere19 April 2020 at 19:42

    Yes... the need for digital citizenship is closely connected with the digital age culture present in your area and should be grounded in real experience. China would be much different than France or Vietnam for that matter.

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