Digital citizenship

We were asked to do a reading on the topic of ICT and Teacher Education: GLOBAL CONTEXT AND FRAMEWORK and Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants.  as homework so under it we had a fruitful discussion on the understanding of the topic which I have discussed below.

People born on the 1980s and before are called digital immigrants and after 1890s are called digital natives. A digital citizen refers to a person who has the knowledge and skills to use digital technologies to: communicate, participate, create, the digital content with effective and positive engagement.  So educating students on it has become crucial and by educating they will have the opportunity to understand the concepts like internet safety, digital and information literacy, cyber bullying, privacy, and security, copyright, relationships, etiquette and communication and many more.

Knowing these concepts about digital literacy mean being a digital literate where one has the opportunity to grow, develop in a digital society as people and more so innocent students become exposed to the internet and they are likely to vulnerable to digital threats.  It is important to feel safe and take the best advantage of technology while using internet.

One thing I liked about digital citizenship is knowing what is privacy and security. Nowadays people upload everything they do on internet making them vulnerable to threats.  It is crucial what we upload and update on internet , doing that means we are opening and welcoming problems as cyber bullying has become one of the issues among people where to the extreme people land up killing themselves.  We have to be careful what we share on different social networking sites as there are high chances that we may fall victim to cyber bullying resulting in emotional and psychological disturbances. So, as teachers it our role to educate our students and make them aware of the advantages and threats being a digital citizen.