Digital+Citizenship

Digital Citizenship The Nine Elements of Digital Citizenship  Digital Citizenship describes how a person should act while using digital technology and has also been defined as "the ability to participate in society online". It's often mentioned in relation to Internet safety and netiquette.
 * **Digital Access**- Full electronic participation in society regardless of gender, race, age, ethnicity, and physical or mental challenges
 * Example: **A local school district is providing every student in grades 3-12 with an iPad to use for academic and personal use until the time they graduate.
 * **Digital Commerce**- Electronic buying and selling of goods
 * Example: **Sally was able to research, select and purchase three relics from China, Greece, and Honduras for her History capstone, all from the comfort of her home via the Internet
 * **Digital Communication**- Electronic exchange of information
 * Example: **Email correspondences should always include a proper subject line, greeting, message body, closing and signature line
 * **Digital Etiquette**- Electronic standards of conduct or protocol
 * Example: **During school hours or when in a doctor’s office, your cell phone should be turned to silent or off
 * **Digital Health & Wellness**- Keeping technology users physically and psychologically well in the digital world
 * Example: **Samuel regularly adjusts the height of his computer monitor and chair to best meet his posture and avoid strain on his neck and arms
 * **Digital Law**- Relating to crimes of stealing or causing damage to other people's work, identity, or digital property
 * Example: **The crimes of hacking into others’ information, downloading illegal music, bootlegging movies, plagiarizing, sending spam, or stealing anyone’s identify is unethical and punishable by federal law
 * **Digital Literacy**- Pertains to the ability to locate, organize, create, understand, use information in order to perform tasks effectively in digital environment
 * Example: **After searching the web for all possible alternatives, Benny decides to use Prezi in order to organize and present the science experiment findings to his class
 * **Digital Rights & Responsibility**- Assuming electronic responsibility for ethical or unethical actions and deeds; those freedoms extended to every student, administrator, teacher, parent or community member
 * Example: **<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5;">A student who fails to properly cite information they used in a school research paper is charged with academic dishonesty
 * **Digital Security & Safety**- <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5;">Self-protection; taking necessary precautions to guarantee electronic digital safety
 * Example: **<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5;">In order to protect your new laptop from viruses and malware attacks, you install McAfee antivirus software and perform regular system clean-up