Digital Citizenship - What does it mean?
Digital citizenship can be defined as the norms of appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to technology use.
http://www.digitalcitizenship.net/Nine_Elements.html
http://www.digitalcitizenship.net/Nine_Elements.html
The following questions may help you determine whether your use of the internet is appropriate or not. They come from http://andrewscampbell.com/2015/04/13/questions-to-promote-reflective-digital-citizenship-in-students/
- Describe something about yourself that you’d be comfortable sharing online. Explain why you’d share it, what network you use to share it and why that network?
- Describe something (or an example of something) that you wouldn’t share online. Explain why not. What would have to change to make you comfortable sharing it online?
- In a chart describe the positives and negatives of the various social networks you and your friends use. How are the audiences for each one different?
- If a friend shared something with you that they probably shouldn’t, what would you do? What would you not do?
- If an adult could see all your online posts and messages what would they like and what would they dislike? Why?
- How do you decide who to share something with and who not to share something with?
- Are there different rules if someone tells you something online rather than in real life? Why?
- If you make a mistake online, who can you go to for help?
- Should adults be allowed to see everything you put online? Why or why not?
- If you could completely remove something you put online forever, what would it be? Explain why.