With the Covid-19 pandemic ravaging the world and forcing everyone to work or learn remotely, there has been a strong call to integrate technology in the classroom making it paramount for students to understand and examine the consequences of their online activities. This growing call for schools to integrate technology into classrooms, and educators to adopt it, has made more people to be connected online than at any time in human history. So, this presents a great opportunity to promote ideas around the subject of digital citizenship.
Digital Citizenship helps teachers, technology leaders, parents, and society to understand what students, children, and technology users generally should know to use technology correctly.
As the Covid-19 pandemic compels Nigerian schools to move to remote/e-learning, educators are also adopting productive classroom technology applications, bringing their curriculum up to speed, and making learning real to their students while nurturing them to be good users of technology.
In the effort to help our educators raise awesome digital citizens, the Digital Citizenship Summit Nigeria in collaboration with Digital Citizenship Institute and Belouga (both of the United States) are bringing together the most dynamic and innovative education leaders and technology professionals from around the world to examine the subject: Digital Citizenship and the Classroom of the Future.
Nigerian youths exploring the digital world safely, responsibly and smartly
Empower young Nigerians with the skills and knowledge to become positive and smart users of digital technologies.
Our young people need Digital Citizenship and Media Literacy education to fully participate in today’s digital economy and culture. Stakeholders such as education administrators, parents, teachers, students, citizens and governments at all levels need to work together to educate them about the ramifications of the responsible use of the internet as well as its intrinsic dangers. We all have a responsibility to provide a workable system of digital education that will safeguard and enrich their experience.
So we need every voice to speak on how our young people can use technology and navigate social media safely, responsibly and smartly. And we expect every stakeholder to have a role in disseminating and localizing the idea of digital citizenship in order to fit into the cultural context of our country.
Digital Citizenship is a concept that helps teachers, technology leaders, and parents to understand what students, children, and technology users should know to use technology responsibly.
It is more or less a preventive measure that helps tip the scales towards positive online interactions and brings Digital about appropriate, responsible behavior with technology.
Mike Ribble, widely acknowledged as the father of digital citizenship defined digital citizenship as the norms of appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to technology use. He explains further:
When I wrote my first book, Digital Citizenship in Schools, with Gerald Bailey, we considered where this might lead on a bigger scale. The idea was to create a framework of defining elements that provide a structure for digital citizenship education on which everything else could hang. As a result, we identified nine key elements that help define how to best use technology in every school, home, and community. They’re organized into three primary categories:
Digital Citizenship Summit Nigeria (DigCitSummitNG) is part of the emerging global communities of Digital Citizenship Summit organizations that is coordinated by The Digital Citizenship Institute. Digital Citizenship Summit Nigeria like The Digital Citizenship Institute is committed to promoting social good through the appropriate, responsible use of social media and technology. We are a diverse group of connected digital enthusiasts who think differently and believe in amplifying the positive and practical applications of learning in the digital age. We partner with authorities at local, state and federal levels, schools, parents and organizations to provide a community approach to digital citizenship.
With the Covid-19 pandemic ravishing the world and forcing everyone to work or learn remotely, there has been a strong call to integrate technology in the classroom making it paramount for students to understand and examine the consequences of their online activities. This growing call for schools to integrate technology into classrooms, and educators to adopt it, has made more people to be connected online than at any time in human history. So, this presents a great opportunity to promote ideas around the subject of digital citizenship.
Digital Citizenship helps teachers, technology leaders, parents, and society to understand what students, children, and technology users generally should know to use technology correctly.
As the Covid-19 pandemic compels Nigerian schools to move to remote/e-learning, educators are also adopting productive classroom technology applications, bringing their curriculum up to speed, and making learning real to their students while nurturing them to be good users of technology.
In the effort to help our educators raise awesome digital citizens, the Digital Citizenship Summit Nigeria in collaboration with Digital Citizenship Institute and Belouga (both of the United States) are bringing together the most dynamic and innovative education leaders and technology professionals from around the world to examine the subject: Digital Citizenship and the Classroom of the Future.
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