DML Conf 2010: Meeting of the Minds part 5 of 5

Global Kids presented a number of sessions with a variety of partners at the first Digital Media and Learning Conference in San Diego, in February 2010. This is some of the video from that amazing day.

The following is the description of this presentation from the program guide:
Meeting of Minds: Cross-Generational Dialogue on the Ethics of Digital Life Chair: Katie Davis (Harvard University)
Participants: Rik Panganiban (Global Kids, Inc.), Shira Lee Katz (Common Sense Media), Katie Davis (Harvard University)
In this workshop, we engage participants in hands-on, interactive activities based on findings from the first cross-generational online conversation on digital media and ethics. Three collaborating organizations brought together a diverse group of over 250 parents, teachers and teens for a three week online conversation. Prompted every day with scenarios and questions, participants discussed the ethical dimensions of online life, including issues of privacy, credibility, ownership and authorship. In general, teens focused more than adults on the personal consequences of their online actions rather than the potential effects their actions may have on others. For instance, while both adults and teens acknowledged the need to give credit to original creators when remixing or appropriating other people's creative works, only teens suggested fear of negative sanctions as the primary motivation for giving credit. The failure to consider one's responsibility to other people and to the various communities with which one engages constitutes an important challenge to the quality of individuals' online participation. Following a deliberative discourse approach to education intervention, we believe scaffolded dialogue represents a promising strategy for promoting youth's self- critical, moral and ethical ways of thinking about their actions online. Link to report: http://www.globalkids.org/meetingofminds.pdf

To review more material from this day, go to: http://www.tinyurl.com/gkatdml2010

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