digital citizenship symposium - slide compilation
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Compilation of all slides (10 presentations) for the Digital Citizenship Symposium in Calgary Alberta, September 23-24, 2010 by Dean Shareski and Alec Couros.TRANSCRIPT
Digital Citizenship Symposium
Calgary - September 24, 2010Slide Compilation by Dean Shareski & Alec Couros
The InappropriateContent & Activities - A Shifting Target
What Is Considered Offensive?
Inappropriate in Detail
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1971
1991
1996
2006
http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl/searchspy
“Some of the comments on Youtube make you weep for the future of humanity, just for the spelling alone, never mind the obscenity and naked hatred.”
(Lev Grossman)@leverus
http://mediagirl.org/node/1535
“Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable
to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to
sensations and cheap appeals.”~Trevelyan (1942)
Information Literacy
Crap detection 101
“I read it on the Internet”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/54857253@N00/1077224439/
"Every man should have a built-in
automatic crap detector operating
inside him."
Ernest Hemingway, 1954
Digital is Different
easily copied
instantly shared
viewable by many
designed for remix
Authorship
http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/educational/handouts/internet/teaching_zack.cfm
http://pubweb.northwestern.edu/~abutz/
~abutz
who is?
Shared Authorship
“The problem with Wikipedia is that it only works in practice. In theory, it can never work.” Miikka Ryokas, computer science student
Does it matter if it’s true?
Vaccination
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23327787@N08/2983149263/
Phishing
"When I said that I was king of forwards, you got to understand that I don't come up with this stuff. I just forward it along. You wouldn't arrest a guy who was just passing drugs from one guy to another."
“The order of things in broadcast is "filter, then publish." The order
in communities is "publish, then filter."
Clay Shirky
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37421747@N00/3251255441/
Copyright/CopyleftCrisis of Intellectual Property
• what is k?
• how is k acquired?
• how do we know what we know?
• why do we know what we know?
• what do humans know?
• who controls k?
• how is k controlled?
re: Knowledge
The current era of intellectual property is waning. It has been based on two faulty assumptions made nearly three decades ago: that since some intellectual property
(IP) is good, more must be better; and that IP is about controlling knowledge rather
than sharing it. These assumptions are as inaccurate in biotechnology ... as they are
in other fields from music to software.
Source:Innovation Partnership
Social Tools
Understanding Copyright, Copyleft & Openness
• Creative Commons and other copyleft licenses help give us access to quality tools, content, and other resources.
• Openness has the potential to transform our educational institutions in terms of access and quality of resources.
• Perhaps most important, copyleft/openness gives us power to choose how we share, makes us interrogate when to do so, and provides an explicit mechanism for attribution.
Free/Open Content“describes any kind of creative work in a format that explicitly allows copying and
modifying of its information by anyone, not exclusively by a closed organization, firm, or
individual.” (Wikipedia)
Understanding the Shift
• Students are now connected in ways that we struggle to understand, and in some cases, choose to restrict.
• Lessig, one of the founders of the Creative Commons, is an advocate of (re)creating, (re)use of content, to “say things differently.”
• Sharing and collaboration are necessary forces within a creative and free culture.
Cyberbullingand Online Harassment
The Internet facilitates unethical behaviour
"Cyberbullying involves the use of information and communication technologies to support deliberate, repeated, and hostile behaviour by an individual or group, that is intended to harm others." Bill Belsey
repeated
Distribution
Anonymity canbreedirresponsibility
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21884267@N05/4262660945/
Random acts of Cyberbulling
Home may no longer a safe place
http://www.flickr.com/photos/93378328@N00/25341275/
Angry Teacher Videos
The role of the bystander
http://www.flickr.com/photos/83808396@N00/295292181/
Online Predators Fact or Fiction?
“... neither the Internet nor social networking sites pose unusual dangers for minors. As has always been the case, the underaged are most likely to be the victims of sex crimes perpetrated by acquaintances and family members, even if such cases are seldom featured on To Catch a Predator.”
“One in five children is now approached by online predators.”
WHAT PUTS KIDS AT RISK FOR RECEIVING THE MOST SERIOUS KINDS OF SEXUAL
SOLICITATION ONLINE, SUGGESTS THAT IT’S NOT GIVING OUT PERSONAL INFORMATION THAT PUTS KID AT RISK. IT’S NOT HAVING A
BLOG OR A PERSONAL WEBSITE THAT DOES THAT EITHER. WHAT PUTS KIDS IN
DANGER IS BEING WILLING TO TALK ABOUT SEX ONLINE WITH STRANGERS OR HAVING A PATTERN OF MULTIPLE RISKY ACTIVITIES ON THE WEB LIKE GOING TO SEX SITES AND CHAT ROOMS, MEETING LOTS OF PEOPLE THERE, KIND OF BEHAVING IN WHAT WE CALL LIKE AN
INTERNET DAREDEVIL.
danah boyd http://www.flickr.com/photos/opacity/3457701731/
“Why are we so obsessed with the registered sex offender side of the puzzle when the troubled kids are right in front of us? Why
are we so obsessed with the Internet side of the puzzle when so many more kids are abused in their
own homes? I feel like this whole conversation has turned into a distraction. Money and time is being spent focusing on the things that people fear rather than the very real and known risks that kids face. This breaks my heart.”
Scared of our Shadow
http://www.flickr.com/photos/68134711@N00/2255781557/
Don’t talk to strangers?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/greut/502095764/
“Parents are just bad at risk assessment,” said Christie Barnes, a mother of four and the author of “The Paranoid
Parents Guide.” “We are constantly overestimating rare dangers while underestimating common ones.”
What should be afraid of?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/73645804@N00/3337404887/
Marketing to KidsUbiquitous Reach
“You are not Facebookʼs customer. you are the product
that they sell to real customers - advertisers. Forget this at your
peril.”(Greenberg, 2010, via tweet)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/silent_e/2430485978/sizes/l/in/photostream/
Online Predators Fact or Fiction?
“... neither the Internet nor social networking sites pose unusual dangers for minors. As has always been the case, the underaged are most likely to be the victims of sex crimes perpetrated by acquaintances and family members, even if such cases are seldom featured on To Catch a Predator.”
“One in five children is now approached by online predators.”
WHAT PUTS KIDS AT RISK FOR RECEIVING THE MOST SERIOUS KINDS OF SEXUAL
SOLICITATION ONLINE, SUGGESTS THAT IT’S NOT GIVING OUT PERSONAL INFORMATION THAT PUTS KID AT RISK. IT’S NOT HAVING A
BLOG OR A PERSONAL WEBSITE THAT DOES THAT EITHER. WHAT PUTS KIDS IN
DANGER IS BEING WILLING TO TALK ABOUT SEX ONLINE WITH STRANGERS OR HAVING A PATTERN OF MULTIPLE RISKY ACTIVITIES ON THE WEB LIKE GOING TO SEX SITES AND CHAT ROOMS, MEETING LOTS OF PEOPLE THERE, KIND OF BEHAVING IN WHAT WE CALL LIKE AN
INTERNET DAREDEVIL.
danah boyd http://www.flickr.com/photos/opacity/3457701731/
“Why are we so obsessed with the registered sex offender side of the puzzle when the troubled kids are right in front of us? Why
are we so obsessed with the Internet side of the puzzle when so many more kids are abused in their
own homes? I feel like this whole conversation has turned into a distraction. Money and time is being spent focusing on the things that people fear rather than the very real and known risks that kids face. This breaks my heart.”
Scared of our Shadow
http://www.flickr.com/photos/68134711@N00/2255781557/
Don’t talk to strangers?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/greut/502095764/
“Parents are just bad at risk assessment,” said Christie Barnes, a mother of four and the author of “The Paranoid
Parents Guide.” “We are constantly overestimating rare dangers while underestimating common ones.”
What should be afraid of?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/73645804@N00/3337404887/
Privacy dead or alive?
Privacy is about controlling how the information
flows
http://www.flickr.com/photos/45177065@N00/3778930204/
Privacy and Anonymity are not Synonymous
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22196205@N03/3656624938/
danah boyd’s 5
http://www.flickr.com/photos/33198938@N00/3353221215/
PII vs. PEIPersonal Identifiable Information Personal Embarrassing Information
by DEFAULT
with EFFORT
PRIVATE
PUBLIC
Weighing the benefits over the costs
That wasn’t intended for you!
I S aw Tw i l i g h t
http://www.flickr.com/photos/97041449@N00/3023085176/
Abundant Eavesdropping
Just because something is publicly accessible does not mean that people
want it to be publicized.
Making something that is public more public is a violation of privacy.
“there is something profoundly selfish in not sharing.” Jeff Jarvis
http://www.flickr.com/photos/41716177@N00/4309027037/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/54289096@N00/947189227/
Network LiteracyUnderstanding New Media
• redefine communities, friends, citizenship, identity, presence, privacy, publics, geography.
• enable learning, communication, sharing, collaboration, community.
• networks form around shared interests & objects.
social networks
locks
parents as pirates
connected reality
“Understanding how networks work is one of the most important
literacies of the 21st century.”(Rheingold, 2010)
the utility of networks
(re)shaping collaboration
1. coding competence(the ability to decode texts)
(Adapted from Four Resources Model, Freebody & Luke, 1990)
2. semantic competence(the ability to make meaning)
(Adapted from Four Resources Model, Freebody & Luke, 1990)
3. pragmatic competence(functional literacy)
(Adapted from Four Resources Model, Freebody & Luke, 1990)
Professional Identities
4. critical competence(ability to select, analyze & participate in texts)
(Adapted from Four Resources Model, Freebody & Luke, 1990)
Reputation Management Controlling your Identity
Who’s managing your stuff?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/will-lion/3974469907/
You can’t NOT
play
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sergiopics/1306083834/
Youhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/siutou_amy/2306794554/
http://budtheteacher.com/blog/2009/10/10/on-modeling/
Google’s not your only problem
Advocacy
What do other’s say about you?
Image: ilustra-respondendohttp://flickr.com/photos/felipearte/44808639/
Owing a domain name is about claiming your pieceof the internet. You’re no longer renting, you’re a home owner.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/35723943@N00/2379057597/
Is your Identity worth $10?
become a marketable asset?
When does your digital identity/profile
http://www.flickr.com/photos/48043300@N04/4607149956/
Your Studentshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/64121897@N00/62716956/
drunken pirate
http://www.flickr.com/photos/86592731@N00/175990728/
“I want my kids to be
found.”
Your Institutionhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/64121897@N00/62716956/
You don’t control the message now
You probably never did
http://www.flickr.com/photos/larryontheprairie/4534921049/
Allow Constituents a Voice
Tell Stories
Give them places to Share
Let them share
PERSONAL BRAND
http://www.flickr.com/photos/38392802@N07/4669189625/
Losing the Ability to Forget
http://www.flickr.com/photos/14813074@N00/533355476/
Digital ActivismBeyond the Ineffectual
@zittrain• Technical infrastructure of
the web.
• Wikipedia’s content & form
• ‘Hitchhiking’ exists through Internet-facilitated kindness, collaboration, & sharing.
The Web as Random Acts of Kindness (TED Talk)
• Inspired by McLuhan’s “We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.”
• Youtube & other social media mitigate “connection without constraint”. In many cases this leaves to “tremendously deep communities”.
The Machine is (Changing) Us(Personal Democracy Forum)
@mwesch
Heroes for our Mediated Culture
“... the practice of freedom, the means by which men & women deal critically and creatively with
reality and discover how to participate in the transformation
of their world”(Freire, 1970)