ABOUT MARIALICE B.F.X. CURRAN, PH.D.
As a pioneer in digital citizenship, she developed and created the first 3-credit digital citizenship course for teachers in the United States. She co-founded the digital citizenship chat in Twitter (2011) and the Digital Citizenship Summit (2015). She serves on the leadership team for the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Digital Citizenship PLN and is a researcher, keynote, international speaker and TEDxYouth speaker.
An entrepreneur and puppeteer at the age of 11, Dr. Curran's experiences include world travel with particular interest in the creative arts, middle level education, special education, teacher education and educational technology. Dr. Curran is committed to promoting social good using social media and technology. She believes in a community-driven approach to educating and empowering digital citizens to create solutions in local, global and digital communities. Her mission is to turn negatives into positives and help to transform participants into designers, creative thinkers, global collaborators, problem solvers and justice-oriented digital citizens.
She has partnered with her eleven-year old son and the two are a recognized professionally as a mother/son digital citizenship team. The dynamic duo model best practices while working with parents, educators, students and community organizations.
Find out more at the Digital Citizenship Institute.
Follow Marialice on Twitter at @mbfxc and @digcitinstitute, @digcitsummit and @digcitkids.
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Featured in the Huffington Post: Pioneering Adolescent Development in the Digital Age: Encouraging a Positive Relationship Between Youth and Technology
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"Everyone has had that one teacher; the one who inspired you in some way. The teacher who challenged you to leap out of your comfort zone and promoted new ideas and growth. This is the teacher we give credit to for changing our lives, changing ourselves.
For me that teacher is Marialice Curran. She is the most passionate, enthusiastic, playful and joyful educator I have ever known. Her words are encouraging and her passion infectious. I have never had a teacher who would go to the lengths that Marialice goes to for her students. She is not just a professor; she becomes your mentor, coach, cheerleader and friend.
If not for her constant encouragement and belief in me, I wouldn’t have had the courage to dive wholeheartedly into social media or ed tech. I wouldn’t be a part of a wonderful PLN. I wouldn’t be a connected educator. I would have missed out on all of the things that have made me strive to become a better teacher for my students.
I have embraced a new way of life because of one woman who dared me to try. It only takes one teacher and I have been reminded to strive to leave some positive imprint on my students’ lives. You never know whose path you might impact."
~ Natale Dolnack, Spanish Teacher
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