Digital+Citizenship

What is digital citizenship? Digital citizenship is the norms of appropriate, responsible technology use

** The Nine Elements of Digital Citizenship ** **Digital Law:** Relates to the crime of stealing or causing damage to other people's work, identity, or digital property **Digital Access:** Full electronic participation in society regardless of gender, race, age, ethnicity, and physical or mental challenges **Digital Commerce:** Digital buying and selling of goods **Digital Communication:** Electronic exchange of information **Digital Etiquette:** Electronic standards of conduct or protocol **Digital Health and Wellness:** Keeping technology users physically and psychologically well in the digital world **Digital Literacy:** Pertains to the ability to locate, organize, create, understand, use information in order to perform tasks effectively in digital environment **Digital Rights and Responsibility:** Assuming electronic responsibility for ethical or unethical actions and deeds; those freedoms extended to every student, administrator, teacher, parent or community member **Digital Security and Safety:** Self-protection; taking necessary precautions to guarantee electronic digital safety
 * Examples: the crimes of hacking into others' information, downloading illegal music, bootlegging movies, plagiarizing, spreading, or stealing anyone's identity is unethical and punishable by federal law
 * 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
 * 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
 * Example: Email correspondences should always include a proper subject line, greeting, message body, closing and signature line
 * Example: During schools hours or when in a doctor's office, your cell phone should be turned to silent or off
 * 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
 * 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
 * Example: A student who fails to proper cite information they used in a school research paper is charged with academic dishonesty
 * Example: In order to protect your new laptop from viruses and malware attacks, you install McAfee antivirus software and perform regular system clean-up

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