Digital Citizenship
Digital Citizenship is a concept which helps teachers and technology leaders understand what students should know to use technology appropriately and prepare students for a society full of technology.
Within this website are many examples of how educators can begin the process of teaching their students how to use technology more appropriately.
Nine Themes of Digital Citizenship
- Digital Etiquette: electronic standards of conduct or procedure .
- Digital Communication : electronic exchange of information.
- Digital Literacy: process of teaching and learning about technology and the use of technology.
- Digital Access: full electronic participation in society .
- Digital Commerce: electronic buying and selling of goods.
- Digital Law : electronic responsibility for actions and deeds
- Digital Rights & Responsibilities: those freedoms extended to everyone in a digital world .
- Digital Health & Wellness : physical and psychliogical well-being in a digital technliogy world .
- Digital Security (self-protection): electronic precautions to guarantee safety.
Curriculum Resource:
KnowledgeContext
KnowledgeContext's technological literacy curriculum places technology in the context of history, science, math, and language arts. It instills in children the critical thinking skills necessary to understand past, present, and future technology, and to influence how that technology will affect their world.
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