Digital Citizenship

Definition

We will be creating a definition together.  Here are some themes to consider:

• information literacy
• netiquette
• problem solving
• managing yourself in any environment
• selecting the appropriate tools to a task or situation
• communicating through writing
• legal and security issues
• ethical issues and character education
• acknowledging and citing resources
• collaboration, networking and democracy
• the nature of traditional (real-world, offline) citizenship
• where and how we choose to leave digital "footprints"
• understanding the relationship between digital life and "real" life

Factors Influencing Digital Citizenship

• increasing globalization
• corporate access to personal data
• physical proximity and physical isolation
• ubiquitous technology (mobile, lightweight, wireless, integrated)
• mass media
• celebrity and the American Dream
• change is constant

Rights and Responsibilities

• focus on skills rather than content
• collaboration and "people skills" -- affective domain
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