Thoughts About Tool #11

Three things I will be teaching my students about digital citizenship:
1. Never share personal information with an unreliable source(you wouldn't share an ice cream cone with a stranger so why would you share your address?)
2. Plagiarism- even elementary students need to know that taking something from the net and portraying it as your own thought is STEALING!
3. Say what you mean, and mean what you say!- When communicating and collaborating with peers it is easy to type things you wouldn't necessarily say. Being a good digital citizen means taking the etiquette you have in reality and apply them to the virtual setting.

Seeing as the students in school now are the first generation to really "grow up" with the 2.0 world, I think it is easy to relate many aspects of digital citizenship to how we act in reality. This not only helps students make connections to reality vs. virtuality, but makes them think critically about how they SHOULD be acting in daily interactions!