Digital Citizenship
Digital citizenship has several similarities with the traditional idea of citizenship. InCtrl has created helpful videos for introducing the idea of digital citizenship to both teachers and students. Both are ways of existing within the world as well as within discrete communities within that world, and both are governed by codes of behavior and ethics that lay out the correct way of participating in those communities and the world as a whole. Both digital citizenship and traditional citizenship are ways of participating in those groups while fulfilling the roles, rights, and responsibilities that allow those groups to function. Digital citizenship, however, raises some unique concerns. While it shares the necessity of respect for the rights of others, digital citizenship complicates things by adding the need for respect for information and ideas on a much larger scale. Additionally, the growing connectedness of the world and social networks has seen the rise of problems that evolved ...