DigCitSummit

what is a DigCitSummit?

A #DigCitSummit is a gathering of digital citizenship enthusiasts and influencers who are committed to becoming a force for good online. Our ​#DigCitSummit builds connections among four critical stakeholders namely, students, educators, parents/caregivers, and community thought leaders. This multiple stakeholders approach provides an opportunity to address the positive ways to actively use social media and technology.

It is an opportunity for a school community to come together and experience what digital citizenship looks like in action.

our #DigCitWish for all school communities looks like this...

DigCitSummit specifically designed for NY educators
#DigCitSummit #CivicReady
June 11, 2022

What is Civic Readiness?

Civic readiness is the ability to make a positive difference in the public life of our communities through the combination of civic knowledge, skills and actions, mindsets, and experiences.

Civic Ready students use civic knowledge, skills and mindsets to make decisions and take actions for themselves, their communities, and public good as members of a culturally diverse, democratic society.  Schools, therefore, must provide students meaningful opportunities to develop specific civic knowledge, skills, and mindsets — and to participate in authentic actions and experiences—that are necessary for them to function as productive civic participants within their schools, communities, states, our country and the world.  

The New York State Education Department is committed to empowering the civic agency of students and ensuring all students achieve civic readiness as a result of their prekindergarten — 12th grade education.  The Regents have also emphasized this position in their Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) Plan. The New York State Education Department (NYSED) understands that the results we seek for all our children can only be fully achieved by incorporating an equity and inclusion lens in every facet of our work.

​Civic education strengthens the relationships between schools and students, as well as students’ relationships with parents, caregivers and families, civic leaders, community partners, and among each other. The responsibility of ensuring all students are Civic Ready is a chief aim of social studies education.


​Civic Knowledge

Demonstrate a fundamental and functional knowledge of government, law, history, geography, culture, economics, and current events.  These may include inequities within our democratic system at the federal, state and local level. Students should know how to apply this knowledge to different circumstances and settings.  ​


​Civic
​Skills & Action

Demonstrate a broad array of critical analytic, verbal, communication, media literacy and other skills and participate in a wide variety of actions. Students should practice such actions both inside and outside of school on a regular basis.


​Civic ​
​Mindsets

Demonstrate the mindset of a participant in a democratic society. A civic mindset is a commitment to democratic interpersonal and intrapersonal values, virtues, attitudes, and beliefs and informed actions that promote and facilitate meaningful participation in civic life.  It is an understanding of self as part of and responsible to larger social groups. 


​Civic Experience

Participate in developmentally appropriate civic experiences. Civic readiness should be developed in a variety of settings and ways—inside and outside of the classroom, across content areas, and for multiple purposes. Civic Readiness should be promoted by engaging students in relevant experiences that include students as active participants.​​

DigCitSummit in partnership with CSLA
#DigCitSummit #4CSLA
February 10,  2022

DigCitSummit in partnership with Belouga
the entire month of October 2021

DigCitSummit Latinoamérica
7 y 8 de Abril 2021​

DigCitSummit in partnership with CSLA
#DigCitSummit #4CSLA
February 12,  2021

2nd Annual DigCitSummitNG
Lagos, Nigeria
November 2020

6th Annual DigCitSummit
​​DigCitSummit 2020
October 2020

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5th Annual DigCitSummit
​​DigCitSummit 2019
October 2019

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4th Annual DigCitSummit

St. Louis, Missouri
​September 2018

3rd Annual DigCitSummit

Provo, Utah
​October 2017

2nd Annual DigCitSummit

Twitter Headquarters, San Francisco, CA 
​October 2016

1st Annual DigCitSummit

University of Saint Joseph in West Hartford, CT
​October 2015

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 Toronto, Canada
​October 2018

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Madrid, Spain
​January 2018

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Lagos, Nigeria
July 2017

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Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, UK
January 2016

DigCitSummitCM 🇨🇲​

Yaounde, Cameroun
​November 2018

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Dublin, Ireland
​April 2018

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Monterrey, Mexico
​September 2017

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