How to be a Digital Citizen?

• Digital citizenship is about having positive and confident engagement with digital technologies to communicate with others effectively in an appropriate manner through having full knowledge and skills to promote healthy online communities.

• Why Teach Digital Citizenship with technology in the classroom?

Inappropriate behaviors at school, cell phones disrupting class and cyberbullying can be prevented by teaching digital citizenship how to use technology with a greater sense of self awareness for better understanding in education. Not all students have the same level of access to technology, some of them have fewer digital experience than others so schools can help these students to catch up the correct use of technology to develop healthy practices on the internet.

• Three Principles of Digital Citizenship:

1. Respect: The elements of etiquette(demand more appropriate behavior), access(available in many schools by offering computers through kiosks, community center and open labs), and law(enforcing illegal downloads, hacking and creating viruses) are used to respect other digital users.
2. Educate: To learn about the appropriate use of the digital world through elements of literacy(how to use various digital devices), communication(understanding the variety of online communication medium such as email, Facebook Messenger) and commerce(ability of recognizing that much of economy is regulated online also deal with the positive and negative impacts on buying online and using credit card).
3. Protect: To remain safe in both digital and non- digital world through the elements of right, responsibilities(having privacy and free speech), security(being safe by using secure passwords and backing up data), health(aware of physical stress like headache, eye strain due to internet usage) and wellness. 

• Five tips for good digital citizenship:

1. Remember the Golden Rule: "Treat people the way you want to be treated or have a member of your family treated!" children must be taught that online conservation must be done politely not just only the face to face conservation, avoid heartful speech while conversing online with others
2. Keep Private Information Private: You have to be sure and careful to whom you are giving your information because this has an effect on your surroundings (family, friends) not just on yourself.
3. Think about the Future: The internet makes a little tattoo of everything you searched about so if you deleted something it doesn't mean that it had been erased forever.
4.  Be Mindful of your "Brand": You as a person is considered as a brand by having a clear well-delivered message, be mindful of what you say that it doesn't hurt your reputation.
5. Be Yourself: Keep on mind that you will have a high number of audiences than you thought to be if you are what you are and not the fake version.