How to Take Digital Citizenship Schoolwide During the 2016 17 School Year | EdSurge News

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Since our students are using technology to play, learn, and communicate while at home and at school, they should be learning how to use that technology responsibly. Full integration of digital citizenship (or DigCit) curriculum into every class and every content area—at every grade level—should be the goal to meet this need.

Source: How to Take Digital Citizenship Schoolwide During the 2016 17 School Year | EdSurge News

A great set of steps to teach digital citizenship and responsibility. All students need to be aware of consequences from what they do online, or bad things can happen.

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