What is the iCitizen Project? Whole Child Podcast guest Beth Sanders, a high school social studies teacher at Tarrant High School in Alabama who was named an Apple Distinguished Educator Class of 2013 and 2013 Teacher of the Year for Tarrant City Schools, explains:
As Sanders said, the project brought together Saint Joseph College freshmen in Connecticut and Tarrant High School juniors in Alabama to discuss and collaborate on this essential question: What does it mean to be an iCitizen—nationally, globally, and digitally? Both classes used Twitter and Skype to communicate with one another, bridging the physical gap between the two schools and creating an online iCitizen community. The project was created to promote consciousness and empathy in a digitizing world and students learned how to become agents of change and commit to being part of the solution.
So, what does it mean to be an iCitizen? Watch the video below to learn about the project and, in the section
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