Forum Participate 1.1.1 Character Traits Quest: Digital Citizenship
According to Mike Riddle (2014) effective digital citizenship has three central components: Respect, Educate, and Protect. These three elements (or more simply REP) serve as a foundation for ethical and acceptable behavior for the use of technology. Each of the three headers of REP require both responsibility of the user to himself, as well as to ensure that others also receive the same projection. These three elements are then each divided further into practical applications that will ensure that educators both use technology ethically, but also ensure that their students do as well.
These three elements are the essential foundation for ethical technology use.
1. Respect is essential because it ensures ethical compliance with all interested parties from global applications (i.e. copyright law, governing bodies) to individuals. Respect of law ensures that all legal principles are adhered to when using technology, while respect of the individual ensures that the educator is aware of the rights of individual students. By ensuring that respect is consistent in the other party's interest at all levels, the educator will adhere to ethical guidelines concerning technology.
2. Education is essential because it serves as a manifest application of the quest to ensure respect. By its nature, education of individuals on how to use technology and as a means of literacy serves to help foster respect of the applicable parties.
3. Protection is the ultimate responsibility of the ethical digital citizen. Once the respect of the learners has been established, and the pursuit of educating these individuals is engaged in a consistent manner, the digital educator must protect these individuals. This protection can be seen in ethical presentation of the content that is presented to learners, as well as through more basic and fundamental protection of their physical well-being.
The larger components of the REP model will ensure that not only is the theory of digital citizenship manifest in online learning, but also in its practice.
The following video from youtube by cyberwise, shows practical ways to ensure that children learn and understand their part with effective digital citizenship and will serve as a practical conclusion to this blog entry.
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