Digital Citizenship
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Questions to Consider (Are there more questions out there?)
- Can your students differentiate between Internet use rules that may (or may not) be imposed at home and those imposed at school?
- How does "fair use" apply to copying information from a web site for use in class?
- Is online behavior different than "real world" behavior?
The issues of Internet safety, copyright, plagiarism, and netiquette are critical to modern educators. We are increasingly expecting students to spend at least part of their "school" time in the digital world doing research, communicating, and exploring. Do they know how to be safe there? Do they understand the issues of copyright and plagiarism in a medium that gives new meaning to "copy/paste?" Do they know how to conduct valid research or to differentiate between the quality of sources on they encounter? Can they communicate effectively with people from different cultures? There are many ethical and legal questions about which educators need to be informed.
In 2006 there has been considerable press coverage of social networking sites such as MySpace.com, FaceBook, and others. WikiPedia maintains a useful list of social networking sites along with a good set of references. Sometimes described as the digital equivalent of hanging out at the mall, social networking sites attract huge numbers of visitors (MySpace currently hosts 70 million visitors) and increasingly also attract marketers, voyeurs, and others interested in the young audiences that hang out there.
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