![Picture](/uploads/2/9/9/6/29967849/961044.jpg?1400795415)
Welcome Digital Citizens!
Note to the Grown Ups: This website is a place for learning! It is designed to teach students in Kindergarten, 1st Grade, and 2nd Grade to become digital citizens. The content is age appropriate, but students will need help navigating and reading through the information on this website.
What is a Digital Citizen?
Being a citizen means being a part of a community. You are a citizen of your town and you are a citizen of your school or classroom. When you are using your computer, cell phone, or other electronic devices you become a digital citizen as well. Every community has rules to follow, which keep the community respectful and safe. Just as you follow rules in your community and in your school or classroom, you will follow rules when you are a digital citizen, too. A digital citizen is a person who knows how to make responsible choices when using their electronics. Sometimes a digital citizen needs to make good choices at home, and sometimes they need to do the right thing at school. When they are interacting with other people in their digital communities, a good digital citizen is responsible, respectful, peaceful and safe. Watch the video to the right to learn about how to make responsible choices as a digital citizen. |
|
Why is Digital Citizenship Important?
Digital citizenship is important everywhere. At your age, there are two places where you will probably need to think about making responsible choices as a digital citizen. These two places are at home and at school. A digital citizen needs to know how to act appropriately when they use their electronics. As a member of your community, you follow a set of rules for how to behave, and how to treat others so that everyone gets along. Without rules and responsibilities, people would get hurt, things would get stolen, and no one would know how to act the right way! As a member of your digital community, these "rules to follow" are just as important. If digital citizens don't follow the rules, people's feelings could get hurt, private information might be lost or stolen, and nothing would be safe. Let's talk about just a few examples of why digital citizenship is important: At school it is important to:
At home it is important to:
You will read more about this by clicking the tabs at the top of this page. The bottom line is to STOP and think before you act! |
WHAT CAN YOU LEARN FROM THIS WEBSITE?
Click on the tabs at the top of the page to learn about:
Digital Rights and Responsibilities
On the digital rights and responsibilities tab, you will learn that as a member of a digital community, you have rights and responsibilities.
It is your right to look online for videos, songs, poems and pictures. You can enjoy these things from the internet, but you can not pretend that someone else's ideas are yours. It is your responsibility to respect your ideas and the ideas of other people (Ribble, 2014). If you click on the digital rights and responsibilities tab, you will learn about your rights and responsibilities as a digital citizen both at home and in the classroom. |
Digital Access
On the digital access page, you will learn that members of a digital community must all be able to "access" their digital tools and information.
To access something means to be able to use it. In digital citizenship, it's fair for all people to be able to "access" the same information. People have different needs and abilities, but accessing new information needs to be fair for everyone (Ribble, 2014). If you click on the digital access tab, you will learn different ways to access digital information both at home and at school. |
Digital Communication
On the digital communication tab, you will learn that as a member of a digital community, you must be appropriate when you communicate with other people.
Communication is the way you talk to someone. It's also the way you give someone information or the way you get information from someone else. When we communicate, we need to make sure we are interacting with others in the appropriate way. In digital communication, we must follow the same guidelines, except we are using our electronics, or mobile devices (Ribble, 2014). If you click on the digital communication tab, you will learn the appropriate way to communicate digitally both at home and in the classroom. |
![Creative Commons License](http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-nd/4.0/88x31.png)
Digital Citizenship by Carly Shields is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.