Digital Citizenship

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 cultural appropriation.  

When introducing our first art lesson, we focused on the design elements of Coast Salish art using the website Perpetual Salish. We discussed the elements and how students could use the elements to create their own original Coast Salish inspired art.  The students will be reminded of the difference between plagiarizing or appropriating indigenous art versus using indigenous art as inspiration. 

From here, we will be encouraging the students to continue being vigilante with their technology use and honest with themselves, their peers, and us. We expect some students to make mistakes, but will lead them toward proper online participation as they develop their digital literacy. 

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