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Digital Citizenship

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This week, we are fortunate enough to have the White Hatter come to our school for an assembly presentation to all the students on internet safety and digital citizenship.  During this presentation, Darren Lauer went over on-line use and misuse, focusing in on cyber bullying. You can visit his website at  https://www.thewhitehatter.ca/ to see more about what these inspiring presentations can offer.  As a follow up to his presentation, we will be discussing the nine elements of  digital citizenship  with students to collaborate on some ground rules for electronic use in the classroom, especially in our project.  When Kelly and I sat down to discuss which aspects of digital citizenship we wanted to focus on in our project, we agreed it was most important to discuss cultural appropriation.  As much of our project surrounds students creating art and visuals, we felt it was necessary to give a lesson on the difference between being inspired by indigenous art and cult