What is Digital Citizenship?
"Digital citizenship can be defined as the norms of appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to technology use."-- Mike Ribble
According to Ribble & Bailey, there are nine components of digital citizenship:
- digital access (full electronic participation in society)
- digital commerce (electronic buying and selling of goods)
- digital communication (electronic exchange of information)
- digital literacy (process of teaching & learning about technology & its uses)
- digital étiquette (electronic standards of conduct & procedure)
- digital law (electronic responsibility for actions & deeds)
- digital rights & responsibilities (freedoms extended to everyone in the digital world)
- digital health & awareness (physical & psychological well-being in the digital world)
- digital security: self-protection (electronic cautions to guarantee safety)
Taken from Digital Citizenship in Schools by Mike Ribble and Gerald Bailey
Why is Digital Citizenship Important to schools?
In a school setting students are not only learning about academics, they are also learning to navigate the world of technology. Teaching students how to be effect digital citizens enables them to become life-long leaners of the rights and responsibilities of the digital world. Digital citizenship is important to schools because it provides structure to the components that make up acceptable use policies (AUPs). Those in charge of administrating technology in a school can determine what elements of digital citizenship are important for their students to learn to better prepare them for using technology in the world. This way these administrators do not have to just restrict the use of certain technology. Instead they can teach the students appropriate and inappropriate uses of technology.
What is the purpose of this website?
This website is designed to educate students and their parents on the safe and appropriate use of technology especially the Internet. Besides making users aware of the nine elements of digital citizenship, special attention will be paid to digital rights & responsibilities, digital access, and digital communication.
Who is ths website for?
This website is primarily for students but also for their parents, and the community at large to educate them on the many components of digital citizenship and how to use them in the ever changing world of technology.
Digital Citizenship by Tom DeMatteis is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.