Digital+Natives



Digital media allows students to delve into precision mediums, having been born in to an emerging world of creativity, innovation and profound technological capabilities. As educators it is important to recognise that 'the impact of technology is moving beyond integration at the classroom level to infusion at the curricula level' (Johnson, 2003, p. 144). Upon integrating technology within classrooms however, it is vital to ensure that students are explicitly taught the correct use of technology and online safety. Students exposed to a variety of digital media however require the knowledge and obedience to online norms, commonly know as ethical digital citizenship. Ethical digital citizenship is defined as the norms of behaviour, encompassed within the use of technology and digital media (Ribble, Ross & Bailey, 2004).

Exercised as a pedagogical practice, digital media is a part of all students lives, optimising student engagement, motivation and technological proficiencies. Following this notion, students of today are best known as Digital Natives- a generation born in to a technological world, all of which are native speakers of our world's digital language (Helsper & Enyon, 2009).

Our artefact has been developed as a humourous display of one of the many forms of digital media that students are now interacting with. Creating a mockery of the benefits of having a Facebook account, our artefact foremost has been created to provide a visualisation of what technology savvy students are interactiong through, and why they find Facebook so appealing. The aim of our unit of work is for digital native students to examine, promote, investigate and design technologies from the past, present and the future. Here students will use a variety of digital media to assist their learning, with our unit of work presented as 'technology as an evolution'. Following on from the notion of ethical digital citizenship, our unit of work also promotes online safety and how students can utilise technology in a safe and concise manner.

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====The concept of Ethical Digital Citizenship and the evolution of technology falls within a number of dimensions within the Victorian Essential Learning Standards. Our lessons have been developed to be integrated across a number of domains.====

**__//VELS Level Four//__**

 * ==Domain== || ==Learning Focus and Standards== ||
 * ====Information and Communications Technology==== || ====ICT learning focus==== ||
 * ====Civics and Citizenship==== || ====C/C learning focus==== ||
 * ====English==== || ====English learning focus==== ||
 * ====Humanities==== || ====Humanities learning focus==== ||
 * ====Communication==== || ====Communication learning focus==== ||
 * ====Personal Learning==== || ====PL learning focus==== ||

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 * == Lesson == || ==Lesson Plan link== || ==Resources== ||
 * ====**Decade a Day**==== || [[file:Decade a Day Lesson.pdf]] || ====Create your own Rubric==== ||
 * ====**Digital Natives**==== || [[file:Digital Native vs Digital Immigrant Lesson.pdf]] || ====Digital Natives YouTube Clip====
 * ====**Grandparents Day**==== || [[file:Grandparent Day Lesson.pdf]]﻿ || ==== ====

History of Technology YouTube Clip
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 * ====**Communication Innovation**==== || [[file:Ways of Communication Lesson Plan.pdf]] ﻿............. || ====Classroom Survey Generator====

[|Inspiration Mind Map Program]
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 * ====**It's Virtually You**==== || [[file:Its Virtually You Lesson Plan.pdf]] || ====Create your own Avatar==== ||
 * ====**Back to the Future**==== || [[file:Back to the Future Lesson Plan.pdf]] || ====The furture of technology YouTube Clip==== ||
 * ====**Reflection Newsletter**==== || [[file:Reflection Newsletter Lesson Plan.pdf]] ﻿.......... || [[file:Reflection Newsletter Proforma (for ideas).pdf]] ||



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Victorian Essential Learning Standards:
====State Governent of Victoria. (2007). //Victorian Essential Learning Standards.// Retrieved July 10, 2011, from Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority: [|http://www.vels.vcaa.vic.edu.au]====