Digital Citizenship

 New technology is being created daily, and online communication is becoming an increasingly common and important means of building and maintaining connections. Teaching digital citizenship equips students with the knowledge, skills, and resources to succeed as lifetime learners. This also helps them learn to engage within a digital environment with responsibility and confidence to develop as leaders who will leave meaningful impacts in the lives of others. Digital citizen belongs to a digital society. It empowers people to reap the benefits of digital technology in a safe and effective way. It is a right, digital skills enable people to exercise this right.

Digital Citizenship:

• Digital citizenship refers to the quality of habits, actions and consumption patterns that impact the ecology of digital content and communities.

• A digital citizen is a person using information technology in order to engage in society, politics, and government.
  

The digital citizen needs to follow six principles of citizenship:

• Respect yourself
• Respect others
• Protect yourself
• Protect others
• Respect intellectual property
• Protect intellectual property

Tips for being a good citizen:

• Encourage all community members to share their ideas
• Communicate respectfully
• Protect your private information
• Give proper credit when using other people's work
• Treat all conversations as learning opportunities
• Be Yourself
• Think about

Elements of Digital Citizenship:

• Digital Access
• Digital Commerce
• Digital communication and collaboration
• Digital Etiquette
• Digital Fluency
• Digital Health and Welfare
• Digital rights and responsibility
• Digital Law
• Digital security and Privacy

Function /uses of Digital citizenship:

   

Digital citizenship is essential to helping students achieve and understand digital literacy, as well as ensuring cyber bullying prevention, online safety, digital responsibility, and digital health and wellness. It provide easy connect with people in places across the globe with social networks. Digital devices and the internet can be used as a great tool to help with education and learning.

 Facts of Digital Citizenship:

• Digital Citizenship is a concept which helps teachers, technology leaders and parents to understand what students/children/technology users should know to use technology appropriately.
• Digital Citizenship is more than just a teaching tool; it is a way to prepare students/technology users for a society full of technology.
• Good digital citizen engages young students and shows them how to connect with one another, understand with each other, and create lasting relationships.
• Bad digital citizenship involves cyber bullying, irresponsible social media usage, and a general lack of knowledge about how to use internet safely.

Advantages of Digital Citizenship:

• Information is very easy to access with digital devices and the internet.
• It is easy to connect with people in places across the globe with social networks.
• It is easy to pay bills and make payments with the help of digital devices.
• Students Will Become More Responsible Social Media Users.
  
  
  

 Disadvantage of Digital Citizenship:

• People can hack into your account and deface it.
• Rumors spread very fast.
• Cyber bullying is increased.
• It is easy to find out personal information about people.

"Just because kids know how to use twitter, snap chat 

and Instagram

Doesn't means they know how to use technology

To enhance their learning...."

To be active citizen in today's society we all need to be conversant with technology, as our daily life is connected with digital tool. To function in a digital world, we need digital skills. We need them for learning , for work, for interacting with services, for buying and selling online etc. They involve active creation, critical understanding and problems solving through digital means. 

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