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This blog provides some ideas on how to guide students to the knowledge and experience they need to act responsibly online. There are two ways to approach teaching digital citizenship in the classroom through proactive knowledge and experiential knowledge.  Proactive knowledge introduces students to the “9 Key P's” of digital citizenship passwords, private information, personal information, photographs, property, permission, protection, professionalism, and personal brand. Students must know how to create a secure password and why they are important. Students need to know how to protect details like their address, email, and phone number. The Common Sense Media curriculum is a great tool for this. Students should be aware that while personal information can’t be used to identify you, you still need to choose who you will share it with. Students should be aware that some private details (ex: license plates and street signs) may show up in photographs. They should also be knowledgeable about how to turn off a geotagging feature. Students need to understand copyrights and how to generate a license for their own work? They must be taught to respect the property rights of those who create intellectual property. They should know how to go to the source, to see if they have permission to use the content, and then cite that source. Students must understand what viruses, malware, phishing, ransomware, and identity theft are, and how these things work. Students should understand the professionalism of academics versus decisions about how they will interact in their social lives. It is essential they know about netiquette and online grammar. Students must determine how they want to be perceived online. Instruction should include topics about their “digital tattoo”. If you want your students to become effective digital citizens you must allow them the experience. Switch the roles in your classroom and allow students to be teachers: Students can create presentations exposing common scams and how people can protect themselves. This will allow the students to be more cognizant of these things while they are using digital avenues. Students must collaborate. They need experience interacting online with others in a myriad of ways. In my classroom, we will use Glogster as a means to blog. They can interact with students from all over the world and this provides them with experience needed to help them become better digital citizens. View the article here. Subscribe here to get more content like this!
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