Tool #11: Digital Citizenship

I am a huge proponent of teaching Digital Citizenship to our students. I'm not sure that you can really separate out the parts that you are going to teach and say "I'm not going to teach anything else" because so much of digital citizenship goes together. I suppose I generally focus on Digital Access, Digital Communication, Digital Security and Safety, and Digital Rights and Responsibilities.

When I used blogs in Creative Writing last year, our librarian and I developed a lesson on this. Here is a link to the blog post. Even though my students understood, they forgot, and I sometimes felt like I was the Internet police. "Please remove that picture of yourself from our blog." "Please change your name in your blog." Etc. But by the end of the year, they seemed to get it.