Digital Citizenship Archives

Digital Media Use In Schools: An Internet Safety Cheat Sheet

Digital media use is exploding in education. Unfortunately, internet safety is something many teachers-and worse, students-take for granted.

The definition of digital citizenship has to do with the quality of behaviors that impact the quality of digital content and communities.

Helping students learn to manage their digital footprints starts with helping them understand how they’re vulnerable, then how to address it.

Here are the ABCs of digital citizenship, framed in an alpha blocks format. We’ve bolded those that focused on actions of the students.

Digital Citizenship is the quality of habits, actions, and consumption patterns that impact the ecology of digital content and communities.

When you teach digital citizenship to students, you can help to create a positive school culture that supports safe, responsible tech use.

In understanding the shift from literacy to digital literacy, it may help to take a look at the underlying assumptions of digital literacy.

“Digital literacy is the ability to interpret and design nuanced communication across fluid digital forms.”