As teachers, we often have to adjust our teaching to the times we live in. Digital citizenship is a perfect example of this. As a teacher the three most important things I teach my students are:
1) Anything you say/type on the internet can be just as hurtful as the things you say in person. Cyberbullying is very real and should be talked about at a young age.
2) Is is extremely important to give credit to those you borrow information from. Just like citing sources in a book, we must cite our sources on the internet.
3) Not everything we read on the internet should be taken as fact. We must be careful to evaluate the validitly of the sources we use.
In the classroom, I present these ideas to my students in context. When we blog or post things on googledocs we talk about cyberbullying and making appropriate comments. When we conduct research we talk about how to evaluate the strength of a website and how to give credit to our sources.
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