Digital-Citizenship(2)

Digital citizenship consists of being inclusive, informed, engaged, balanced, and alert. It involves knowing how to effectively communicate using digital information and respecting, educating, and protecting users' rights. These skills should be taught to students to ensure they understand guidelines for digital access, tools, privacy, and protection. Educators can use tools like Lenovo, Netfilter, and commonsense.org to teach digital citizenship. It is important for educators to model good citizenship and constantly reinforce these lessons. Collaboration with parents is crucial in keeping students safe online. Hello, good evening everyone. I'm not sure what time zone you're in, but hello. I'm going to discuss with you this evening aspects of digital citizenship. What I learned about digital citizenship is that it consists of the following. Being inclusive, being informed, being engaged, being balanced, being alert. What is digital citizenship? Digital citizenship is someone who has the ability to use digital information which is knowing and having skills that can effectively communicate with others. It is also a content that consists of these three groups. They are respect, educate, and protect its users' rights. Let's dig a little bit deeper. Why should these skills be taught? It's simply this. It is important to teach these skills so that everyone knows that there are guidelines to follow. They include respect for digital access, which allows everyone equal rights and access. In addition, students especially must be educated on knowing the correct tools to access. And they must also understand how to be effective as consumers. Furthermore, students must be aware that they have rights to privacy and freedom of speech. Finally, students must be protected and know how to protect themselves and safeguard their personal information by being able to use the protect their privacy settings. These guidelines must be taught to students at an early age because as we know, it is the only way to protect them from such things like cyberbullying, scams, and other things that happen even to young children. As educators, it is up to me to ensure that students know about these digital rules slash guidelines. Tools that can be used to teach students about digital citizenship. They include Lenovo, Netfilter, which is a site that comes in many different languages. It is cloud-based. We also have commonsense.org education slash digital citizenship. How can we as educators model good citizenship for students? We can access such information through discussions, reply, books, video, and communication with students. These can be taught from the beginning of the school year and keep reinforcing it throughout the year. And as students learn about digital citizenship, they become much more aware so they can be ready in case something happens without having to worry about them being on the internet. Of course, it is important to make sure that we are constantly monitoring and again reinforcing what they learn. And through communication and collaboration with our students, they will come to us if something fishy shows up or something out of the norm should pop up while they are working on some document, conducting research, anything of that nature. They can even go home to their parents and share such information with them. In addition, through collaboration with parents, let's say we have a meeting and back to school night, we can get a list of parents who are interested in probably providing them with information, probably through a newsletter, conducting a PD one day during parent-teacher conference, and inviting them to come in and learn and share what they know about such things as digital citizenship. Because as we know, information is power. It's important to us as educators to collaborate with parents and other staff members to keep our students' children safe from the cyber world out there. So by giving them information and protecting them, we are ensuring to make certain that they are aware and that they know and they are informed. The best consumer is an informed consumer. So these are the things that I want to share as it relates to digital citizenship. Thank you.