Digital Citizenship is how someone conducts themself with technology. It means that everyone should know how to handle and act online. However, does the things online follow the laws and standars we expect from people in public? Yes it does. There are laws about how you should act online. You cannot hack into other people's information, download illegal music, plagiarize, stalk, or bully.
It is important to teach standards about how to act online becuase we all should be held to a high standard; the same standard that you would expect from someone in a face to face situation should be the same standard we are held to in the cyber world. There is no difference between the two. As teachers, we first and foremost need to hold ourselves to higher standards. We need to watch how our facebooks, and social networking sites look to our students. We need to be their role models. This can also protect us from law suits and different things that can happen due to the internet. However, we have to remember that we do have freedom of speech and press. We are able to have a voice outside of the classroom. But we must remember that we need to be careful about how we are presenting ourselves to our students.
Another big factor is that our students need to see the right way of how to conduct themselves on the web. It is very important that they learn from us what is appropiate and what is not. Students need to be edcuated about how to protect themselves online. It is so important that we teach the students how to act online. We need to take the responsiblitiy for teaching our students about how to act online.
http://myfootprintsd.com/index.html
Here is a great website to help you understand how to use the web and how to help your students understand what is appropriate and what is not.
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