Digital Citizenship

I chose to focus on a couple of key aspects of digital citizenship from the article we were given about citizenship. In the classroom, I can easily discuss these characteristics of digital citizenship by tying them to each child's citizenship within there own community. We could discuss the roles they play in their immediate community and tie those roles into their digital community. I can stress the importance of security inside the digital community by comparing it to situations in the physical life, such as personal information they do not openly share. If they wouldn't want to share information aloud to peers, they should know not to share information online with their digital community. We, as teacher, need to be responsible for discussing and modeling how to use digital media in proper and productive ways. We need to be sure that our students understand the usefulness of digital communities but we also need to be sure they do not abuse their privileges of being in a digital community. We all the advancements and dependencies our society has with technology, it is vital that we incorporate it into the classroom, but it is also extremely vital that we use the tools we are given appropriately.