Minutes of Meeting 12/4

Attending: Courtney, Doris, Laura, Matt, Mike, Tammy, Michael

meeting materials used for discussion.

Following the planned agenda, we first discussed the definition of Digital Citizenship, beginning with the suggested options in the meeting materials.  After brief discussion it was agreed that a good working definition is the one from Cable in the Classroom group:

“Digital Citizenship is a holistic and positive approach to helping children learn how to be safe and secure as well as smart and effective participants in a digital world.”

Next, we discussed what would constitute the breakdown into primary or principal components.  Again, using the meeting materials as a guide, we looked various schemes and decided that the five component breakout made the most sense.  This is Communications, Awareness, Information Literacy, Technical Literacy, and Health and Safety.

Finally we discussed what the final product of this effort would be.  It will be a comprehensive curriculum map which will match each component & topic of Digital Citizenship to an appropriate place in the academic and or vocational curriculum and grade level.  Each row (discreet topic) would map to the DESE Tech Literacy Standards.  Each entry on the map (row and column entry) would contain the topic or topics to be covered, links to support materials, and example lesson plans (where appropriate).

Next Steps:

• Refine, republish curriculum map template - Micahel
• Refine definition of each major category (5) - teams assigned by Michael
• enumerate the sub components of each major category - each team

Next Meeting: Wednesday, 12/18 2:30 pm Library