Digital Community, Digital Citizen

AcknowledgmentsAbout the AuthorIntroduction - Remembering My High School LibraryPreamble: Our Choice for Our Children: Two Lives or One?Part I. The Call to Digital Citizenship1. Becoming Digital: The Road to Digital Citizenship A Short History of Educational Technology A Short History of ISTE Standards2. Perspectives on Citizenship and Community Listening to the Ancient Human An Extremely Short History of Citizenship The Evolutuion of Community: From Farmland to Facebook Three Levels of Community in ISTE Standards You: Where Local, Global, and Digital Communities Intersect3. Gathering Digitally Changing Minds: The Altered Self Perspectives on Organizational Communication in Digital Community Edward T. Hall and the Proxemics of Virtual Space Guidlines for Virtual Behavior Guidelines for Creative Online Learning Communities Some Closing Notes on Reorganizing OurselvesPart II. Seeing Technology4. What Bothers Us About Technology Fear Is the Mind Killer Facing Our Fears Ubiquity Invasiveness Vulnerability Amplification Reducation Misreality Ephemeralness Permanence Indisconnectability Overwhelment Resocialization Sovereignty Dehumanization Obsolescence5. Seeing Technology: A Primer Noticing Technology Seeing Exercises Seeing by Getting Philosophical What's Your Technology Mantra? What's Your School's Philosophy?6. Becoming a "De-Tech-Tive": Helping Students Understand Technology's Impacts A Matter of Balance Becoming De-Tech-Tives Technology Connects and Disconnects Essential Questions of the De-Tec-Tive Process The De-Tech-Tive Process A Case Study of Conditional Acceptance: The Case of Digitally Retouching Photos Issues Are Everywhere A Favorite Project: The Energy Self-Study Using Stories McLuhan's TetradPart III. Character Education in the Digital Age7. Imagining the Ideal School Board Party-Cipation: Setting the Stage What Concerns Us: The Extreme Edge of Freedom From Issues to Programs Lessons From the Past The

Jason Ohler is a speaker, writer, teacher, researcher, and lifelong digital humanist who is well known for the passion, insight, and humor he brings to his presentations and writings. He is author of numerous articles, books, and teacher resources and continues to work directly with teachers, administrators, and students. Combining twenty-five years of experience in the educational technology field with an eye for the future, Ohler connects with people where they are, and helps them see their importance in the future development of living, learning, and working in the Digital Age. Although he is called a futurist, he considers himself a nowist, working nationally and internationally to help educators and the public use today's tools to create living environments that we are proud to call home.

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