Leaders to Gather at Digital Citizenship Summit

• Attorney, college instructor, blogger, speaker David Ryan Polgar explains the purpose and planning of #digcitsummit, the Digital Citizenship Summit scheduled for October 3, 2015, at the University of St. Joseph in West Hartford, Connecticut. http://digcitsummit.com • Dr. J expands on the metaphor of cyberspace as the Wild West and notes that it was not a permanent condition geographically, nor will it be technologically. • Mr. Polgar and Dr. J discuss the advantages of breaking down silos, having stakeholders from education, organization leaders, government, parents, educational technology companies, etc., meet and learn what the rest of the world is doing to forward digital citizenship. • How does info tech use impact our creativity? Our critical thinking? Our conversational skills? Those are aspects of humanity worth preserving in spite of the lure of convenience that helps sell info tech, sometimes in toxic doses. • What can over-reliance on algorithms and apps do to creative problem solving?