Digital citizenship describes appropriate and responsible behavior regarding technology use and helps establish norms for how people interact in a digital global society. It involves several key components: access, commerce, communication, literacy, etiquette, law, rights and responsibilities, health and wellness, security, and ethics. Teaching digital citizenship to students is important so they learn how to safely and appropriately use digital tools for learning and interacting online.

1. Digital Citizenship
Exploring the impact on physical and virtual
communities

2. One definition

3. One definition
Digital citizenship describes the norms of appropriate,
responsible behavior with regard to technology use.

4. One definition
Digital citizenship describes the norms of appropriate,
responsible behavior with regard to technology use.
(Digital citizenship) also begins to set the stage for how
we work with each other in a global, digital society.
- Ribble & Bailey, 2008, Digital Citizenship in Schools

5. Twitter says “Good Morning”
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6. Breaking it into digital elements
Access Law
Commerce Rights and
responsibilities
Communication
Health and wellness
Literacy
Security
Etiquitte
Ethics
- Ribble & Patton - 2008-09

7. Access
Full electronic
participation in
society.
- digital “barriers”

8. Commerce
Electronic buying and
selling of goods.
-knowledge and
protection

9. Communication
Understanding of
digital communication
methods and when
they are appropriate

10. Etiquette
Standards of conduct
expected by other
users
- TONE of email

11. Law
Rights and
restrictions governing
use of digital
technology - “UA”

12. Rights and
responsibilities
Privileges and
freedoms extended
to all digital
technology users and
behavioral
expectations that
come with them
- protect and defend

13. Health and
wellness
Physical and
psychological well-
being
- risks
Frontline / PBS - Digital Nation

14. Security
Precautions that all
technology users
must take to
guarantee their
personal security and
the security of their
networks.

15. Ethics
Moral use of digital
technology
- plagiarism
SafeAssign at Purdue

16. Teaching social media will
revolutionize the world of
learning.
“Instead of delivering a set of facts to students,
we are engaging them in learning how to get
those facts themselves.” - Howard Rheingold

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18. The Ultimate School Reform
“If we ignore this shift in educational focus, we
could see the beginning of a new divide, this one
between today’s teachers and the students of
the future - Connie Yowell, The John D. and
Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

19. Teaching Digital Citizenship
A four stage cycle of reflection
Awareness
Guided Practice
Modeling and Demonstration
Feedback and Analysis
- Ribble, 2008

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22. The New Literacy of the
Digital Citizen
The generation that grows up on the sunny side
of the new digital divide will inherit the ease and
status that comes with being the literati in a
world where literacy has become “digiteracy.”
- Richard Rapaport, EDUTOPIA contributor

23. Introducing Le book
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24. Citizenship = the state of being a citizen
(he or she) of a particular social, political, or
national community

25. If Facebook was a country, it would be the
World’s 4th largest.
- 134 million active users
The Social Media Revolution