The Ethics of Digital Literacy

Developing Knowledge and Skills Across Grade Levels

Series edited by Dominic P. Scibilia - Edited by Kristen Hawley Turner

The digital era has brought many opportunities - and many challenges - to teachers and students at all levels. Underlying questions about how technologies have changed the ways individuals read, write, and interact are questions about the ethics of participation in a digital world. As users consume and create seemingly infinite content, what are the moral guidelines that must be considered? How do we teach students to be responsible, ethical citizens in a digital world?

This book shares practices across levels, from teaching elementary students to adults, in an effort to explore these questions. It is organized into five sections that address the following aspects of teaching ethics in a digital world: ethical contexts, ethical selves, ethical communities, ethical stances, and ethical practices.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Pages: 200 • Trim: 6¼ x 9¼

978-1-4758-4675-1 • Hardback • January 2020 • $71.00 • (£55.00)

978-1-4758-4676-8 • Paperback • December 2019 • $38.00 • (£30.00)

978-1-4758-4677-5 • eBook • December 2019 • $36.00 • (£30.00)

Series: Teaching Ethics across the American Educational Experience

Subjects: Education / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, Education / Secondary / Language Arts, Education / Teaching Methods & Materials / Arts & Humanities, Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy

The Ethics of Digital Literacy

Developing Knowledge and Skills Across Grade Levels

Hardback

Paperback

eBook

Summary

The digital era has brought many opportunities - and many challenges - to teachers and students at all levels. Underlying questions about how technologies have changed the ways individuals read, write, and interact are questions about the ethics of participation in a digital world. As users consume and create seemingly infinite content, what are the moral guidelines that must be considered? How do we teach students to be responsible, ethical citizens in a digital world?

This book shares practices across levels, from teaching elementary students to adults, in an effort to explore these questions. It is organized into five sections that address the following aspects of teaching ethics in a digital world: ethical contexts, ethical selves, ethical communities, ethical stances, and ethical practices.

Details

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Pages: 200 • Trim: 6¼ x 9¼

978-1-4758-4675-1 • Hardback • January 2020 • $71.00 • (£55.00)

978-1-4758-4676-8 • Paperback • December 2019 • $38.00 • (£30.00)

978-1-4758-4677-5 • eBook • December 2019 • $36.00 • (£30.00)

Series: Teaching Ethics across the American Educational Experience

Subjects: Education / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, Education / Secondary / Language Arts, Education / Teaching Methods & Materials / Arts & Humanities, Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy

Author

Kristen Hawley Turner, PhD, is Professor and Director of Teacher Education at Drew University in New Jersey. She is the founder and director of the Drew Writing Project and Digital Literacies Collaborative.

Table of Contents

Series Preface
Dominic Scibilia

Foreword
Antero Garcia

Introduction
Kristen Hawley Turner

Section 1: Ethical Contexts

Chapter 1: Meditation

Nicole Mirra

Chapter 2: Access, Readiness, and the Ethical Imperative of Advocacy

Lauren King and Kristen Hawley Turner

Chapter 3: Seeing Each Other Ethically Online

Derek Burtch and Amanda Gordon

Section Reflection
Kristen Hawley Turner

Section 2: Ethical Selves

Chapter 4: Meditation

Sara B. Kajder

Chapter 5: The Ethical Mandate for Shaping Digital Footprints: Reflections from Teachers

Susan Luft and Paul Tomizawa

Chapter 6: The Ethics of Composing: Identity Performances in Digital Spaces

Brandon Sams and Mike P. Cook

Chapter 7: Creatures of Habit: Self Reflexive Practices as an Ethical Pathway to Digital Literacy

Andrea L. Zellner and Leigh Graves Wolf

Section Reflection

Kristen Hawley Turner

Section 3: Ethical Communities

Chapter 8: Meditation

W. Ian O’Byrne

Chapter 9: Creating Online Communities: Fostering Understanding of Ethics and Digital Citizenship

Jade Feliciano

Chapter 10: Moving Beyond Troll Rhetoric and Facilitating Productive Online Discourse

Priscilla Thomas and Alex Corbitt

Chapter 11: Fostering Cosmopolitan Dispositions through Collaborative Classroom Activities:

Ethical Digital Engagement of K-12 Learners

Aaron R. Gierhart, Sarah Bonner, Anna Smith, and Robyn Seglem

Chapter 12: Online with Intention: Promoting Digital Health and Wellness in the Classroom Lauren Zucker and Nicole Damico

Section Reflection

Kristen Hawley Turner

Section 4: Ethical Stances

Chapter 13: Meditation

Troy Hicks

Chapter 14: Designing for Power, Agency, and Equity in Digital Literacies: New Tools, Same Problems

Katie Henry and Bud Hunt

Chapter 15: Educators discussing ethics, equity, and literacy through collaborative annotation

Jeremiah H. Kalir and Joe Dillon

Chapter 16: “It’s Whatever”: Students’ Digital Literacy Experiences in a Title 1 High School

Lisa Scherff

Section Reflection

Kristen Hawley Turner

Section 5: Ethical Practice

Chapter 17: Meditation

Renee Hobbs

Chapter 18: “Where did I find that?” Helping Students Develop Ethical Practices in Digital Writing

Kristen Hawley Turner

Chapter 19: Beyond quotations: Fostering Original Thinking during Research in the Digital Era

Michelle C. Walker, Monica Sheehan, and Ramona Biondi

Chapter 20: The Ethical Dilemma of Satire in an Era of Fake News and the Brave New World of Social Media

P. L. Thomas

Section Reflection

Kristen Hawley Turner

Reviews

This volume in Rowman & Littlefield's "Teaching Ethics across the American Educational Experience" series focuses on how kindergarten through undergraduate students are learning, and instructors are teaching, ethical dimensions of digital literacy. Five sections of essays address "Ethical Contexts," "Ethical Selves," "Ethical Communities," "Ethical Stances," and "Ethical Practices." The brief reflections by the editor that conclude each section could serve equally well as introductory segments, as they outline the themes and issues covered by the chapters in their section. The essays themselves are brief (six to ten pages), and most include some theoretical grounding as well as practical classroom applications. . . Summing Up: Recommended. . . Faculty and professionals.

— Choice Reviews

In this edited collection, Kristen Hawley Turner brings together educational researchers, teachers and teacher educators to address an important question: In today’s digital world, how do students become critical thinkers, ethical consumers and literate citizens? The authors in this book offer answers from a variety of perspectives as they consider how ethical considerations of context, community, self, stance and practice shape the teaching of digital literacy. Perhaps the most important element of this book is the acknowledgment that developing digital literacy is an inherently ethical endeavor for both teachers and students, shaped by personal and societal determinations of importance, impact and value. By demonstrating that teachers at all levels can - and do - address ethical issues in their teaching of digital literacy, this book encourages us to consider how we, too, can make our classrooms spaces for ethically literate understanding.
— Melanie Shoffner, professor of middle, secondary, and mathematics education, James Madison University; author of "When the Gun Isn’t Metaphorical: Educating Teachers in the Age of School Shootings"

With its unique focus on ethics and crucial emphasis on equity and access, this volume offers fresh inspiration for digital literacy education. Ed tech teachers, media specialists, librarians, and classroom teachers of core subjects will find powerful meditations about, and novel ideas for, the necessary work of supporting all youth in today’s interconnected world.
— Carrie James, Research Associate & Principal Investigator, Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education