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2015-2016 accomplishments

Since we launched the first Digital Citizenship Summit in Connecticut on

October 3, 2015,  bringing together 220 teachers, students, administrators, librarians, nationally-recognized education and technology advocates and experts and community leaders, we have...

...focused on our community goals:

• championing the safe, savvy and ethical use of technology and social media, promoting the positive side of the digital world—how it brings community together, strengthens bonds between people all over the world, and offers opporutunities for engaging learning that never existed before.

 • gathering diverse groups of educators, administrators, librarians, and students in person. Summits give attendees the tools to be positive role models and to continue the conversation in their own communities.

• approaching social media/tech from a positive, participatory point of view. We offer varying viewpoints and content from a wide variety of partner organizations, thought leaders, and communities. It is all vetted by experts. 

• reframing the discussion around digital citizenship to be positive. We use three simple words that seem to stick: 
safe, savvy, ethical.  We let all ages know that if they want to see digital change, they need to join the conversation and be the digital change, online and in person. 

 

..further defined our priorities for 2016:

• developing an action-oriented environment in regards to digital citizenship. Although it's sometimes tough to track, we know that students, educators, researchers, administrators and parents find it tough to resist joining the conversation and become advocates of safe, savvy and ethical practices in their own communities. 
•connecting attendees to start grassroots positive movements in their own way. At the first Summit in Connecticut, educators formed the Coalition of Digital Educators (C.O.D.E.).

• having a global presence. The first 'digcitathon' —two hours of conversations online about how to be a positive digital citizen took place! They involved three countries, thanks to our partner, EdCamp Global. We continue to discuss ways to improve social media for school-age kids and young adults. You can see more examples in our photo gallery on our Facebook page. We held first international Digital Citizenship Summit, DigCitSummitUK, at Bournemouth University. 

• Listening to students and helping them to organize to be a positive force. We helped to organized the first-ever Digital Citizenship Summit EDU on March 7, 2016 in Wisconsin. At the event, 400 students practiced digital citizenship, connected with a global audience and brainstorming ways to 'make the internet great again" with What if? Moderator Matthew Murrie.  

 

Thank you to everyone who has participated and has proactively sought to be the digital change. 

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