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Reference:

Sheninger, E. C. (2014). Digital leadership: Changing paradigms for changing times.

              Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin.

Digital Citizenship

With my experience in an inner-city school, I know how important it is to teach citizenship to young students. Many of my students have had the streets to tell them how to be a good person. Often the lessons they learn from the streets are not beneficial to their growth. However, my school helps students so that they will be able to function in the working world. Many times this takes priority over academic learning in the classroom. This is why digital citizenship is so important.


"We routinely hear how students use digital tools inappropriately for sexting, cyberbullying, cheating, video-recording teachers and fights with peers, and plagiarizing" (Sheninger, 158).


Digital Citizenship consists of teaching students how to use technology appropriately. It is up to us as teachers to curve what we teach so that this message is clear to the students. This only makes sense in my school where we focus on citizenship but not necessarily digital citizenship. I often see students in the lab that are on skype or other programs that are not their work. If we focused a class or even a lesson toward this, I feel we could make a major difference. The video below focuses on the difference that we can make.

In a blog post named "What Your Students Really Need to Know About Digital Citizenship," the writer, Vicki Davis goes over the "9 Key P's" of Digital Citizenship. These "9 Key P's" are to make sure that the students are being careful with their online personas. The 9 P's include "Passwords," "Privacy," "Personal Information," "Photographs," "Property," "Permission," "Protection," "Professionalism," and "Personal Brand." If classrooms would spend at least one lesson teaching about these 9 P's they would be less likely to make costly mistakes in the future. 

Link found here: http://www.edutopia.org/blog/digital-citizenship-need-to-know-vicki-davis 

Davis goes on to say, "To protect us from disease, we are inoculated with dead viruses and germs. To protect students from viruses and scams, I do the same thing. Using current scams and cons from Snopes, Truth or Fiction, the Threat Encyclopedia, or the Federal Trade Commission website, I'm always looking for things that sound crazy but are true, or sound true but are false or a scam."

This is extremely important to do. The reason for this is that many students think that they are already safe. They think that they already know about anything that could be out their to get them. What this does is prove to the students that they need to look at everything with a skeptical eye and not be so trusting of the world around them. 

References:

Sheninger, E. C. (2014). Digital leadership: Changing paradigms for changing times. Thousand

             Oaks, CA: Corwin. 

 The Importance of Teaching Digital Citizenship. (n.d.). Retrieved August 02, 2016, from

             https://www.commonsensemedia.org/videos/the-importance-of-teaching-digital-citizenship 

What Your Students Really Need to Know About Digital Citizenship. (2014). Retrieved August 02,

             2016, from http://www.edutopia.org/blog/digital-citizenship-need-to-know-vicki-davis