Tool # 11

Digital Citizenship

We live in a new world. I don't even remember having my first computer until I was in high school and it was a Tandy. I know what the dewey decimal system and in college I lived in the library researching articles for papers and that wasn't that long ago (12 years ago?). I can't believe how much technology has influenced our lives and the lives of our children. I have a two years old and I can't even imagine what technology will be out by the time she starts school.

We have to teach our kids how to behave on the WWW,, just like we do face to face.
They need to learn to be weary of strangers, to not give out too much information about themselves. Just like we do when there is a knock at the door. We have to teach kids to not believe the first thing they read and to look at multiple sources before coming to a conclusion. We also need to teach kids about cyberbullying and that what you write is just as important as what you say to someone.