Month

Description of Activities

21-30 OCT

We get to know each other through the exchange of information about our countries, our hometowns, our schools and our free time activities.

In cooperation, we design a questionnaire to find out what kind of digital users all the participants (both teachers and students) are, ie what kind of digital devices we use, how often and for what purposes. The students distribute the questionnaire in a sample of 100 classmates of their school and present the digital profile of their school on charts, easy to compare and contrast.

NOVEMBER

We do a deep and thorough research on the Internet as for the concept of digital citizenship and the elements it consists of and we come up with own definition. We try to establish a number of written and unwritten rules that a good citizen should be aware of and adhere to, until he/she becomes a responsible and safe user of any device and a responsible member of any digital community.

DECEMBER

We focus on the eTwinning community and how it encourages its members to follow but also to absorb each one of the above rules.  To that end, we compare the features of this community with some other educational ones which aim at the transmission of knowledge (skills and effective practices ) with social networking communities which aim at the transmission of information (and/or gossip).

JANUARY

We examine whether the above well defined rules are accompanied by moral laws and to which extent they are international or culture specific. What are the consequences of the breaking of these rules, legally as well as socially? Who is in charge for the implementation of these rules and how it reacts in the case of their infringement.

FEBRUARY

In mixed, international groups, we compare the laws of digital citizenship with the one of real-life citizenship and try to conclude which ones are more clearly defined or even harsher penalized.  How can a teenager who is a good digital citizen be turned into an active adult citizen of their country but also of Europe?

MARCH

We gather all the above results and conclusions of our survey into a leaflet with short and up to the point advice for the present and the prospective eTwinners. The ultimate aim of this project is to make it clear to anyone involved that digital citizenship is a concrete and rule governed concept that helps its members enjoy the great potential of the WWW while being protected.

The final product, the leaflet, will be published digitally and in print and will be made accessible to as many people as possible.