Digital+Citizenship

= What is a Digital Citizenship? =
 * What are the norms of appropriate, responsible, ethical behaviour with regard to technology use? **


 * Introduction: ** What is Digital citizenship and why is it important for teachers to address? Let's take a moment to listen to the following experts - **Stephen Balkham** and **Andrew Churches** and their view of Digital Citizenship.


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Mike Ribble has written a wonderfully succinct article sub-titled a [|"Journey Toward Appropriate Technology Use at School and at Home"]. It provides an overview of Ribble's nine elements of digital citizenship as well as his reflection model of implementation.
 * 1) **Etiquette:** electronic standards of conduct or procedure
 * 2) **Communication:** electronic ex- change of information
 * 3) **Education:** the process of teaching and learning about technology and the use of technology
 * 4) **Access:** full electronic participation in society
 * 5) **Commerce:** electronic buying and selling of goods
 * 6) **Responsibility:** electronic responsibility for actions and deeds
 * 7) **Rights:** those freedoms extended to everyone in a digital world
 * 8) **Safety:** physical well-being in a digital technology world
 * 9) **Security (self-protection):** electronic precautions to guarantee safety

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**A digital dossier or a digital footprint **

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 * Reflection: **<span style="color: #173519; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> What does this mean to you in your personal life, professional life? What implications does this have for our young people now and in the future? Anything else to consider? For more discussions on digital citizenship or cyber citizenship, go to [|Interact@Core - cyber citizenship] and/or **Leave a message in the DISCUSSION tab above.**

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**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Additional resources to consider: **
<span style="color: #173519; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Core's Ten Trends 2010 - #5 Cyber citizenship** []

"The project is designed to investigate how social networking services can and are being used to support personalised formal and informal learning by young people in schools and colleges. " []
 * The Digizen project - Young People and Social Networking Services**

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 * Digital citizenship**

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 * What makes you such a good digizen?**