Exploring+and+Supporting+Student+Leadership

February 2011 | Volume **68** | Number **5**
 * Educational Leadership**

**Teaching Screenagers** Character Education for the Digital Age Jason Ohler // **EXCERPT:** // // The tie that binds us to our ancestors is that both ancient and digital-age humans crave community—and all the things that make community possible: survival, effective communication, cultural stability, purposeful education for our children, and creative expression. Achieving these things has always depended on developing a citizenship covenant. But today, that covenant needs to cover a much broader area of social endeavor than before. It needs to embrace many cultures, time zones, and online communities. It needs to be built on an expanded notion of behavior that transcends the physical and embraces the virtual. //  //To teach our children this new citizenship, we need to fold their digital tools into the general flow of school. We need to not only help students learn to use these tools in smart, productive ways, but also help them place these tools in the larger context of building community, behaving responsibly, and imagining a healthy and productive future, both locally and globally. We can't do this if we banish technology from their school lives.// [|Read the Article Here] **Student Agency** [|//Chris Lehman gives the Closing keynote//] // at ISTE 2011 // // Start listening to his student's poetry slam at about the 30 minute mark. //   // Lehman //// is the //// principal // // of the  [|Science Leadership Academy]  in Philadelphia, PA (Opened // 9/06). Lehman talks about how to support and growing, thoughtful, passionate, and kind humans. "Technology in our schools should be like oxygen. Ubiquitous, necessary and invisible. It has to be everywhere and part of everything we do. Then we need to stop talking about it so much. " "It [technology] should be used to serve head,heart, hands and voice. We must use the technology to serve those goals."