Tool # 11

Well...finally made to the last tool. All about digital citizenship...how do we as teachers teach our kids to be responsible citizens of the digital world? Weird to have started my teaching career when internet was just a baby, and now technology has given us the gift of being able to have the world at your fingertips. Amazing. Along with that kind of gift comes a huge responsibility. Some of the articles I read talked about how we would not leave kids alone to understand math and science, neither should they be left alone to understand what it means to be a digital citizen. The problem is that they already know more than we do. We, the teachers, for the most part are playing catch up.
We all know how hard it is to teach a subject if we are not "up" on the content.
I think our number one responsibility is to teach our children that with all of the technology that is available to them, comes a big responsibility. They must be smart and safe. They need to be taught to distinguish the good from the bad.
Hhhmmmm....seems like that is an old lesson applied to a new endeavor.
"The more things change, the more they stay the same."