This document discusses digital citizenship and its importance. It outlines five elements of digital citizenship: (1) participation or civic engagement, (2) rights and responsibilities, (3) norms of behavior, (4) a sense of belonging, and (5) literacies including digital, media, and social literacy. It recommends that digital citizenship instruction should be a national priority and discusses how digital citizenship instruction can provide students with skills like safety and support of community, self-actualization and rights of citizenship, power to enact positive social change, literacy, and practice in collaborative problem solving.