Understanding Digital Citizenship

(Note: There is some sensitive content discussed here, especially under item #4.)
I recently spent most of the day with Dean Shareski in Moose Jaw co-facilitating a couple of digital citizenship sessions. Here’s the wiki for the media literacy portion, in case you are interested.
Since then, I’ve been thinking a lot about digital citizenship. I even [...]

Internet, Democratization & Prosocial Change: I Could Really Use Your Help

I’ve been asked by a colleague to speak to students in the Graduate course, “Social Justice and Globalization from an Educational Perspective.” These are the two general questions I’ve been asked to address:
1) Is the Internet a democratizing agent?
2) How does/can technology be an tool for prosocial change?
While I have many ideas, trying to come [...]