Digital citizenship is important for students, but they will have no idea what it is unless teachers are modeling it themselves. In today's teacher world, many teachers could probably get in trouble for violating digital citizenship. From getting permission to show a video or citing a source that you use in your classroom, teachers need to be aware of what they need to do to ensure they are staying true to digital citizenship. We need to make clear the rules of digital citizenship, but if we are not modeling it ourselves, then our students are going to think it is okay.
As a Christian educator I believe digital citizenship is so important for you to reflect in your classroom. We are trying to witnesses to those around us and if we are modeling dishonesty we are not setting a very good example for our students and co-workers. Even with the little things, we need to make sure that we are citing our sources that we use in our teaching because other wise it is stealing. If you think about it this way, would you want someone to use something you wrote without citing that it is yours? We have a reputation to uphold and practicing digital citizenship is one way to do this in our classroom.
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