5. Digital citizenship

ISTE-CS 5

"Technology coaches model and promote digital citizenship."

Introduction to ISTE-CS

I think my classmate, James Bettis, is right that this standard underlies all the others. Digital citizenship is a construct that relates respecting, educating, and protecting yourself and others while in an online world (Ribble & Miller, 2013). It is fundamental to all engagement in and with digital spaces and content. It is at the heart of crafting and supporting technology-enhanced education (which is what the ISTE-CS are all about), and more broadly at the heart of being a user of the digital world. In this time of growth, where we are only beginning to understand the implications of our actions in the digital world, education around digital citizenship is crucial and can’t happen fast enough. In the same ways that we all have slightly different opinions of what it means to be a good citizen (ultra innocuous example: is it okay to feed the ducks, or not?), I believe we will all have slightly different opinions on what it means to be a good digital citizen (e.g.: is it okay to send screenshots of conversations, or not?). But regardless of our differing opinions, we need to be thinking critically about, and discussing, our actions as digital citizens.

To read more about my understanding of this standard, see the following pages about each indicator:

References

Ribble, M., & Miller, T. N. (2013). Educational leadership in an online world: Connecting students to technology responsibly, safely, and ethically. Journal of asynchronous learning networks, 17(1), 137-145. Retrieved from http://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1011379