Blog Post #3: The Quick Understanding of Digital Citizenship 🧐
In my terms, digital citizenship is essentially being a person that uses technology for whatever reason they choose. Karen Mossberger, one of the authors of Digital Citizenship: The Internet, Society, and Participation, says digital citizens are "those who use the internet regularly and effectively." Sourced by (wiki, 2020). Digital citizenship is the ability to navigate our digital environments in a way that's safe and responsible and to actively and respectfully engage in these spaces. I would probably say that this version of digital citizenship is the positive side.
When you look at the content that was given to us this past week, you see how people like Dr. Josie Ahlquist and Ribble, Bailey, and Ross truly intended to impact citizens. Dr. Josie Ahlquist talks about how K through 12 has become a well-known field for digital citizenship, but on the other hand, higher education needs to catch up with them. Ribble, Bailey, and Ross talk about the nine elements which are “Digital etiquette, Digital communication, Digital Access, Digital literacy, Digital commerce, Digital law, Digital rights and responsibilities, Digital health and wellness, and lastly Digital security”. These nine are very important for the foundation of Digital Citizenship.
How when talking about digital citizenship versus digital literacy, there are differences, but there are also a lot of similarities. Digital citizenship is essentially the core meaning of technology and how you use it digital literacy is how you use that technology. The main similarity that they both have is that they both use technology in their definition, not only that they both use people in their definitions. The only difference is digital literacy is talking about how an individual uses their ability to find, take action, and or communicate information via technology.
Believe that digital citizenship can be fostered and talked to adult learners in various ways. The first way is simply by negative or known social media when giving people the opportunity to educate one another or make it a trend to where people see this as very popular, because who doesn’t want to be hip to the trends? Another way that I feel this could be taught to adult learners is that educators can be implemented this on the mainstream level of education so that they can understand the definition and how I identify it.
References:
https://tpt.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/digital-citizenship-video/things-explained/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_citizen
https://mediasmarts.ca/digital-media-literacy/general-information/digital-media-literacy-fundamentals/what-digital-citizenship
https://www.josieahlquist.com/infusing-digital-citizenship-into-higher-education/