and Humans
Has Responsibility Left the Building?
Primary School Activity Sheets
Middle School Activity Sheets
High School Activity Sheets
Digital Citizenship Agreements
Digital Citizenship Primary School Agreement
Digital Citizenship Middle School Agreement
Digital Citizenship High School Agreement
Digital Citizenship Personal Guidelines
Digital Citizenship Professional Guidelines
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About the Authors
Lee Watanabe Crockett is an optimist. He believes in a bright future and our ability to build it together through connection and compassion. He is an author, a speaker, a designer, an inspirational thinker, and the creative mind behind some of the most exciting transformations in worldwide education. In life, Lee believes in creating balance in the reality of a digital present and future. As such, he has cultivated skills in aikido, studied the traditional tea ceremony while living in Japan, and studied painting in Italy. He also studies traditional Buddhist music, which he performs on a shakuhachi, a Japanese bamboo flute.
Lee is curious about life and the shared human experience. This curiosity is infectious, as anyone who has heard Lee speak can tell you. Joyful curiosity is the foundation of his approach to creating healthy learning environments for groups around the world.
Lee is coauthor of Mindful Assessment, Understanding the Digital Generation, The Digital Diet, Living on the Future Edge, and the bestseller Literacy Is Not Enough. He works with educators and corporations in several countries, helping them make the shift to regain relevance and establish a culture of excellence.
To learn more about Lee’s work, visit https://globaldigitalcitizen.org or www.leewatanabecrockett.com, or follow @leecrockett on Twitter.
Andrew Churches is a teacher and an information and communication technology enthusiast. He teaches at Kristin School, a school with a mobile computing program that teaches students with personal mobile devices and laptops, on the North Shore of Auckland, New Zealand.
Andrew is also an edublogger, a wiki author, and an innovator. In 2008, Andrew’s wiki, Educational Origami, was nominated for the Edublog Awards’ Best Educational Wiki award. He contributes to several websites and blogs, including Tech & Learning magazine, Spectrum Education magazine, and The Committed Sardine Blog. Andrew believes that to prepare students for the future, we must prepare them for change and teach them to question, think, adapt, and modify.
He is the coauthor of Mindful Assessment, The Digital Diet, Apps for Learning, and the bestseller Literacy Is Not Enough.
To learn more about Andrew’s work, visit https://globaldigitalcitizen.org, or follow @achurches on Twitter.
To book Lee Watanabe Crockett or Andrew Churches for professional development, contact [email protected].
Introduction
Lee’s mother was in her sixties when she told him she regretted never visiting Paris. She had secretly always dreamed of going, but during her life had never been outside North America. In 2005, over a cup of coffee, Lee slid two tickets to Paris across the table, and a few weeks later, she ate a crepe late at night under the Eiffel Tower. He had never seen her happier. It was a very special trip, and this city, which he had visited many times before and knew well, repeatedly showed them its beauty and graciousness.
On the morning they planned to go to the Louvre, she was impatient and anxious as they lingered over the normal French breakfast of coffee and croissants. She told him she wanted to get an early start so she could see everything before it got busy—Lee felt the need to manage expectations and frame the experience a little. He gently told her the Louvre is one of the largest museums in the world. There are well over seventy thousand artworks in its sprawling 650,000 square feet of gallery space. There are over eight million visitors a year, so they could expect to share it with twenty-two thousand people that day. But even if they were by themselves and only spent thirty seconds in front of each work of art, it would take almost six hundred hours to see it all—it’s just not possible in a day. Instead, he suggested they take their time, decide then on the few things she really wanted to see, and then gaze at anything that caught their eyes in between, letting the crowds rush past as they wandered.
At the top of her list was the Mona Lisa, and as they got close, the crowd got thicker and more aggressive. Lee will always remember this moment. A security guard saw him trying to protect her from being knocked over and stepped forward to assist. The guard stopped the crowd and moved them back, taking his mother on his arm and escorting her directly in front of Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece. He paused and said to her, “Take all the time you like, madame. There is no rush. Enjoy this moment completely.” She did just that and gazed in wonder. Lee was so happy that he had studied painting in Florence because he was able to answer her questions and provoke her curiosity. It was as magical as watching a child discover his or her own hands.
As they stood there, Lee noticed many people funnel past, snapping a quick photo, and moving on. Most never saw the painting except through their camera lenses. He often recalls thinking how strange it was to spend the time and money to get to Paris just to take a picture and not even stop to look.
This was before the smartphone and long before the selfie. Now a visit to the museum means dodging not only the crowds but also trying to ignore the constant flashes and fake camera click sounds and, worst of all, navigating the sea of selfie sticks patrons precariously wave around.
Speaking
