Digital Citizenship Archives

20 Basic Rules For Digital Citizenship

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.”

In an increasingly digital world, the things a student needs to know are indeed changing–sometimes drastically.

This graphic gets at the idea of modern teaching through a simple checklist for teachers today. We’ve added a extensions for each item.

Avoiding bias and logical fallacies, fact-checking information, and grasping argument subtleties are all examples of digital citizenship.

Social media has emerged as a kind of standard for connecting with and staying in touch with friends, family, coaches, and more.

Changing knowledge demands in education should be scrutinized with at least as much as enthusiasm as we muster for Netflix or food or sports.