In our global, interconnected, and rapidly changing world. We have moved beyond the “information age” – which implies free standing data – to a networked interconnected definition of knowledge – which implies collaboration, relational paradigms, and co-creation. In the following quests you will explore your roles in dynamic online environments in which you are, in effect, at once both a learner and a teacher, a consumer and a creator.

A useful analogy is quilting. Quilts begin with one small square, one small part of a larger project. This small square ultimately connects to the larger whole, even if we are not entirely aware of how that first square will look as part of this larger quilt. We might have an idea of what it will look like, but that idea is realized in the fullness of time – in the fullness of perhaps making errors, of being interrupted, of reconsidering how long the project will take, or the colors chosen. And so then the final iteration, the final product can be turned and turned again and recorded and viewed from many different angles- angles informed by the very act of assembling it square by square, piece by piece.

To earn the Digital Citizen badge you will explore the interaction and presentation of unique, individual, and collectively drawn ideas. You will discover how information, activities, knowledge or creations are transferrable, translatable, and teachable. In the final capstone activity for this badge, you will use this self-reflection to assess your own learning and the learning process. This final activity will ask you to sew your own quilt, as it were – create a reflection that speaks to how the constituent parts of “becoming a digital citizen” inform how you will use this knowledge moving forward. We encourage you to be creative, and push the boundaries of even what we have discussed in the badging content.

Thinking about the exercises you have completed so far, write a short reflection on why the content of this badge will be important to you either professionally or academically – and why. Please give concrete examples of how the content from this badge can be used, and how you are connecting it to competencies, knowledge, and skills in your everyday life. In developing this reflection, please refer to at least three of the learning objectives below. Which speak to you? Why and how?

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

• Articulate implications of using social media to form public identity

• Articulate implications of how others use social media to form a public identity for us

• Articulate implications of using social media to form public identity for others

• Examine personal privacy settings on social media and other web based sites

• Articulate implications of these privacy settings

• Research and analyze their own web presence and identity

• Synthesize issues attached to information ethics in emerging technological environments

• Remix a creation

• Apply new license to that creation

• Describe the ethical considerations of sharing this remixed creation

• Recognize and discuss the ethical considerations of sharing information

• Identify creations/content that can be legally remixed

• Apply creative commons to original work

• Explain level of openness in original work

• Define open access

• Define “open washing”

• Differentiate between “open and “free”

• Define copyright

• Distinguish between copyright, creative commons licensing, and public domain