Digital+Citizen

media type="youtube" key="e0I13tKrxcA" height="340" width="560" **What does it mean to be a digital citizen?**
 * A digital citizen is a person who participates in the technological world! They must have the skills to communicate through the digital world by computer or mobile phone. Most digital citizens are users of blogs, wikis, and other forms of communication over the Internet. Digital citizens also buy things on the Internet, use credit cards, online banking, and participate in an increasingly streamlined worldwide economy!


 * A DIGITAL CITIZEN, refers to anyone who uses technology as a networking device, such as computers or mobile phones to interact socially through the digital world.


 * A digital citizen is a member of society who has any sort of record, membership, tech product, or past. At this point in time, virtually everyone is a digital citizen. As the video about our "Digital Dossiers" stated, when we are born, our records are put into a computer- our vital stats. A responsible digital citizen is someone who keeps their information and these vital stats in safe locations, and does not share their digital information recklessly. A digital citizen subscribes to and takes advantage of the many services provided on the Internet, realizing that once their information is out there, it can never fully be retracted.


 * According to [|Digital Citizenship], being a digital citizen means respecting " the norms of appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to technology use."


 * However, before we expand and get into what those norms are, it is important to understand //who// a digital citizen is. A digital citizen, according to [|Wikipedia], is anyone--child, teen, adult--who has an e-mail account, a blog, a myspace or Facebook page, and anyone who posts pictures online or even makes an online purchases.


 * Being a digital citizen means having anything from an email address to a Facebook page or Google account. Birth records to GPS systems in cars that can track you and even owning a credit card means you are a digital citizen because your account records are stored in a system that enables you and many other people to know how much you spent and when you spent it.


 * As hinted above, there are nine elements that can be used to guide a digital citizen's behavior in regards to technology:
 * 1. Digital Etiquette:** //electronic standards of conduct or procedure.//


 * 2. Digital Communication:** //electronic exchange of information.//

 **4. Digital Access:** //full electronic participation in society.//
 * 3. Digital Literacy:** //process of teaching and learning about technology and the use of technology.//


 * 5. Digital Commerce:** //electronic buying and selling of goods//.


 * 6. Digital Law:** //electronic responsibility for actions and deeds//


 * 7. Digital Rights & Responsibilities:** //those freedoms extended to everyone in a digital world.//


 * 8. Digital Health & Wellness:** //physical and psychological well-being in a digital technology world.//


 * 9. Digital Security (self-protection):** //electronic precautions to guarantee safety.//

For more detailed explanations, visit the [|Digital Citizenship] webpage.



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