Growing Global Digital Citizens

Better Practices That Build Better Learners

A practical guide for transforming education through global digital citizenship and empowering learners to become global digital citizens who effectively and ethically contribute to the digital world around them.

A Citizenry That Cares

Embraced by thousands of schools around the world, Growing Global Digital Citizens introduces you to practices that empower learners to effectively and ethically participate in and contribute to the digital world around them.

Within its pages, authors Lee Crockett and Andrew Churches provide a clear path for establishing a GDC program in your school and ensuring your learners grow into considerate, respectful, and responsible global citizens.

Discover the characteristics of global digital citizens and what these citizens stand for, and learn how to address the various stakeholder communities involved in developing learners into global digital citizens.

Growing Global Digital Citizens provides tools and rubrics for gauging the effectiveness and progress of your global digital citizenship practices framework, and even includes a complete set of digital citizenship agreements for learners at elementary, middle, and high school levels.

From the Book

“Global citizenship is a well-understood concept relating to how one participates in and contributes to the world as a whole. What then is global digital citizenship and how does it connect online behavior to one’s participation in the global community? 

“As the digital world is part of our world, digital citizenship is a component of global citizenship, and is only one of the facets of global digital citizenship that we discuss in this book … global digital citizenship addresses how we participate and contribute in the blended physical and digital worlds, and how we can leverage the digital world to grow citizens in this new reality.”

—Growing Global Digital Citizens

Praise for Growing Global Digital Citizens

  • "In their latest book, Lee Crockett and Andrew Churches provide a road map for school communities to help students commit to global digital citizenship. This is a must-read for the modern school principal.”

    Simon Vaughan, principal, Melrose High School, Australia

  • “This groundbreaking book is an exciting and fresh discussion of the dynamic responsibilities inherent to living in an ever-smaller global village, where respect for the planet and its inhabitants is as important as more iconic digital citizenship topics like privacy and social media.”

    Jacqui Murray, owner of AskATechTeacher.com

  • “By establishing student-centered guidelines, building staff capacity, teaching and modeling, and furthering family education, Lee and Andrew share that it is not just about digital; the learning behind respect and responsibility make our students better global citizens.”

    Craig Cantlie, principal, Caulfeild Elementary School (iDEC), British Columbia, and founder, TEDxWestVancouverED

  • “Lee Watanabe Crockett and Andrew Churches will provoke you with contemporary thought and approaches about how to embrace digital technologies as part of our students’ world. They meet this challenge head on with an approach to nurturing our students that focuses on developing their individual and collective senses of responsibility and ethical behavior. This book provides a user-friendly framework for teachers and school leaders to work collaboratively with students and their community to enhance learning as global digital citizens.”

    Marcus Knill, principal consultant, Department of Education and Child Development, Australia

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