Thursday, 28 March 2013

What is digital citizenship?


Digital citizenship involves a vast range of responsibilities, technology, skills, behaviours and knowledge. Teachers will first need to understand it and develop it themselves before being able to construct policies and programs to promote it in the school community. It also has a shifting base as new forms of web 2.0 tools and social networking pervade all aspects of daily life.
To achieve ‘digital citizenship’ students are required to develop the ability to learn as a 21st century learner with all that entails – the 4 ‘c’s as I call them: collaboration, connectivity, critical thinking and creativity – in a supportive and  safe, yet challenging educational setting.
As a TL, as Farmer (2010) suggested, it is the TL who sees all students and comes into contact with all staff so how much of the responsibility rests with them? How do we achieve school wide digital citizenship?

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