Digital citizenship is something that needs to be talked about. This is especially true for young people. Most often I would doubt that a kid who is surfing the web is thinking about who may be out there trying to get their personal information. The internet is a great tool, and it can be used for anything. This fact needs to be taught to young people early, when they are first learning how to use the internet. If this can be done that person will be much safer and will have the ability to not do inadvertent harm to others as well.
Having digital citizenship means knowing the power you and others have using technology, usually related to online activity, and choosing to use that power appropriately. One way that I would teach this to young people is by showing them accounts of people who have been subjected to the will of bad digital citizens. These people will provide a solid grounding in reality for why this type of technology related behavior is necessary. Providing exercises that allow them to make choices that a good digital citizen would make would help too.
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