Before we actually understand what 'Digital citizenship' is all about. I personally feel that we should be understanding what citizenship is, so that it help us understand and connect to the term digital citizenship. Citizenship is defined as “the quality of an individual’s response to membership in a community.” So digital citizenship is nearly the same thing–“the quality of a response to membership in a digital community” would be fairly be a good definition of the digital citizenship.
Who is a digital citizen?
A digital citizen refers to a person who has the knowledge and skills to effectively use digital technologies to communicate with others, participate and create and consume digital content. Therefore, digital citizenship is about confident and positive engagement with digital technologies.
Educating students on digital citizenship is crucial and need of the hour. In the era of rapid technological advancement and use of media technologies, which has almost become a part of our day to day lives; understanding how to best uses these sophisticated technologies meaningfully is more essential and necessary.
By educating students about digital citizenship and becoming a good digital citizen, they will have the opportunity to develop an understanding about the following concepts:
- digital and information literacy,
- internet safety,
- privacy and security,
- cyber-bullying, relationships, etiquette and communication,
- creative credit and copy right, and
- digital footprint.
The above mentioned concepts are very important. As a user of the digital technology using internet, we need be a digital literate. Understanding how technology works and taking best advantages of technology to help oneself grow and help the society is crucial.
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Internet safety? Many awful things can happen on the internet. As people and especially young people uses more of internet, they become exposed to different stuffs and they become vulnerable to internet threats. It is important to know and be responsible to be safe on while using the internet and also help others feel safe on the internet.
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| https://stluciatimes.com/internet-safety-campaign-to-be-launched-in-saint-lucia/ |
Privacy and security? What we put on the internet is something to be careful and critical about. We can't put whatever we like online. We might put ourselves into problem because of our own actions. Privacy and internet freedom is matter of life.
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One of the many concerns I have is cyber-bullying. According to Hinduja and Patchin (2015), cyberbullying is defined as, "willful and repeated harm inflicted through the use of computers, cell phones, and other electronic devices." As young people use more and more social networking sites such as facebook, wechat, instagram and whatsapp etc... they might anytime fall victim of the cyberbullying. The online materials people share, the communications they have with others. How people treat unknown people online would inflict psychological and emotional disturbances in young people and in turn may ruin their lives.
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| https://fourriversmirco.com/mainsite/2018/11/06/top-9-tips-for-cyber-bullying/ |
Therefore, being an educated digital citizen is paramount in this time and age. As teachers, making awareness on this subject and making our students a responsible consumers of the media is more important.
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