Vokis and Digital Citizenship

When learning about Digital Citizenship: There are nine different things that we should be paying attention to. In the video I watched on Youtube I came across a few of these important details while watching the video that I link below. See the video below for a little bit more detail: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpFhHt82m0k&blend=10&lr=1&ob=5 There is a lot more to digital citizenship than I realized. Digital citizenship is important for all students to learn about. Unfortunately, even those of us who use technology on a regular basis are not always aware of what we need to do to make sure that we are acting appropriately as citizens. Digital access is something that we probably take for granted living here in the United States. As digital citizens living in the 21st century, we need to make sure that we are doing things that are appropriate within the confines of the Internet. If we do not do things that could be perceived as appropriate our access could be denied or taken away from us. I am willing to bet that most of us are people who engage in digital commerce. We are constantly buying clothes, cds, dvds, blu-ray discs, etc. on the Internet. It is going to be difficult unless we are in a third world country to not meet someone who has not engaged in digital commerce. Digital communication, this is one that strikes a chord with me as I had addressed in class. There are so many things that can be said and posted utilizing 21st century technology. Why people do not realize how easy it is to bully someone or to terrorize others just by using the Internet or other forms of technology I will never know. This leads into digital etiquette which I will address momentarily. Besides utilizing Internet and similar technologies for purposes of entertaining ourselves, literacy is definitely changing in this era. Students are often writing papers saying, "k, i, lol, jk, lmfao etc." For those of us who are looking to be English as a Second Language teachers we need to be on the look out for students who are using Internet vocabulary instead of proper grammar and spelling of things in their writing. Digital etiquette ties into the remaining three parts of digital citizenship. Why is it that people think that it is appropriate to do some of the things that they do online? People should be held accountable for it.