Digitial Citizenship

    "Digital citizenship can be defined as the norms of appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to technology use" (Ribble, 2013).  Within today’s society technology has play a significant role within  our daily routines. The target elements of technology are business owners and young adolescents. Young adolescents are facing a lot of dilemma on social media. Social media such as Facebook, Skype, Instragram and Twitter. These websites allows instant communication, sharing photos and posting status that express how they feel. With that being stated, we should teach young adolescents on the appropriate manners when using social media.  It is important to educate young adolescents about digital citizenship because it helps them realize on how some of their acts might affect them in the digital world
     According to Clark on an online article, “ How to tackle Digital Citizenship in five days”, we should teach our students that nothing online is private. All the messages, posting, photos sharing can be easily be access by anyone. Even if the Facebook website came up with the idea of privacy setting, all users should be aware of who they are friends with.  Majority of young adolescents has about 1,000 plus friends on Facebook and half of the friends’ list he/she does not know who they are. Which lead to the question is it safe to have that many friends? And that is why we need to educate out young adolescent on information shared on websites. One of the activities that were coined from Clark classroom activity, which I find it helpful, is asking students to delete any friends that they do not know of from their Facebook (2013).  This will help protect private information such as identity. Young adolescents are fully aware of how important to protect your identify and that is why we should teach within the classroom.
     Another emphasize concept within digital citizenship is digital etiquette. The appropriate behaviors that are shown on social media websites should be advocate by teachers within classroom.  These behaviors consist of posting pictures on social media websites. According to Clark, there are a lot of devices that inserted cameras in which some them can be in trouble because of posting pictures without the person consent. We should stress out on the daily basis that there are pictures that you can post and other pictures that cannot. 
     There are various activities that we can conduct in order for students to learn about  Digital Citizenship .For instance, sign-up your students on Edmodo.  You can post assignments and activities on the website and allow student to practice the appropriate behavior. You can overseen any acts that are unnecessary and correct them.
    We should start teaching appropriate behavior ( Digital Citizenship ) to our students. So that we can practice and draw any lines to any inappropriate acts online.