Digital Citizenship

Digital Citizenship is the way to navigate and explore the internet to become media literate. The five ethical issues are identity, participation, ownership, trustworthiness, and participation. My Digital Citizenship in my personal life helps me to be able to connect and share with family that lives in California and Colorado through social media. As a professional standpoint, my digital citizenship must be clean and no convey any bad reputations or rumors about me. I have to watch out that my online identity, following the five ethical issues, is not a unprofessional representation of me. Becoming a future educator, I have to always be careful about posting or sharing photos or videos online. If a school district does not like something that I posted online, I might not get that interview. Sarah from"Everyone-Think Before You Post" video demonstrated how whatever you post everyone can have access to that information. This video represented that what you post can hurt you when you are looking in the job market. Unlike, Sarah's behavior and reputation from the "Everyone-Think Before You Post" video, I can not post things that will ruin my reputation as trying to get hired as an educator.

The Digital Dossier shows are participation in digital citizenship without our total knowledge of knowing that it is going on. Apparently, we start building our Digital Dossier even before we are born. For example, we could post pictures of our new baby boy: Bob. People come to meet the new baby and post pictures on various online medias. The new child leaves a digital path as he grows up. Eventually, Bob gets married and then has his wife's digital citizenship attached to his name now and the cycle just continues. Overall, we never know where are digital footprint lies on the unlimited internet world. On that note, one must be very careful on what he or she is posting.

According to 11 Facts About Cyber Bullying, "70% of students report seeing frequent bullying online". This statistic is a very unfortunate fact about how we treat people with our Digital Citizenship. Luckily, I have never experienced cyber bullying even though I have social media accounts. Some advice for avoiding the issue is to just be respectful to others around you. Trust your friends to not post embarrassing videos or photos of you. Some parents and adults might look back on all of the negativity of Digital Citizenship and not want future generation to experience the bullying that he or she went through. A participatory culture is when people are the consumers and the producers. From the usage of technology, makes our culture follow the participatory trends.To conclude, treat others the way you want to be treated. For more tips and facts about Cyber Bullying check out the links below.

Here are the links to online bullying and the think before you post video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w4_Hrwh2XI&feature=player_embedded

 https://www.dosomething.org/facts/11-facts-about-cyber-bullying