Digital Citizenship
How do we keep our children safe from the internet?
What Is Digital Citizenship
Digital Citizenship is a concept which helps teachers, technology leaders and parents to understand what students/children/technology users should know to use technology appropriately. Digital Citizenship is more than just a teaching tool; it is a way to prepare students/technology users for a society full of technology. Too often we are seeing students as well as adults misusing and abusing technology but not sure what to do. The issue is more than what the users do not know but what is considered appropriate technology usage.
Social Media
Facebook, Twitter, and lots of other social media places are the start of where are the wrong kinds of digital citizenship happens
Cell Phones
Where rumors are started and another place that children can get into trouble.
Where Digital Citizenship happens
One place where kids get on and cyber bully or get into trouble, is when they are left alone with the computer.
Sites you can go read about digital citizenship and how we can protect our kids
http://www.commonsensemedia.org/advice-for-parents/be-good-digital-citizen-tips-teens-and-parents
This next site it one that just talks about what digital citizenship is and Nine elements that it goes into detail about.
http://digitalcitizenship.net/Nine_Elements.html
This next linked site is a story about why we should care about digital citizenship, along with why we should care there is a short clip of what happened because someone did not care.
http://maclearning.org/articles/9/what-is-digital-citizenship-and