Digital Citizenship

A citizen

To be a citizen of a country brings certain rights and responsibilities. You have the right to vote, and the responsibility to pay taxes. You have the right to express your opinion, but you also have the responsibility to be respectful of the opinions of others. Digital citizenship has similar benefits and responsibilities.  Consider the video below:

With daily digital interactions and a growing number of ways to communicate, the result of online decisions can have a huge and lasting impact. As teachers, it is important that we convey this impact to learners and consider all elements of digital citizenship when working with them in the digital world.

Digital citizenship curriculum and competencies

What exactly should we cover when preparing digital citizenship lessons for our students. What skills should we impart to our students? It is important that we teach our learners about what it means to be a safe yet savvy digital citizen. Access the book below that will unpack exactly what we mean by the concept 'digital citizen'.

Lesson ideas

Those eight digital citizen competencies cover a lot of ground! How might you teach some of them to your students? Look at the lesson plans below. Could you implement any of them?

Discussion

If none of the above lesson plans work for you, how else might you teach digital citizenship? Use the forum discussion below to brainstorm some strategies with your peers. Post some ideas and be receptive to the ideas suggested by your colleagues. (Post once, reply at least twice).

Video

Watch this short, fun, dynamic yet informative video on digital citizenship.