Teaching digital citizenship is a big challenge for us. We live in a world that technology changes faster than we do. We may probably meet the challenge that we teacher do not know a new technology. How to teach when we don’t have the tools or skills to effectively integrate new technology into our own classroom? We may sometimes have the situation that cannot get enough support from school. I have been worked in an elementary school; they only have 30 laptops, some are broken. The whole school students have to share 30 laptops. Teachers and Students lack access to technology in classroom. The most important challenge is how to teach students to protect themselves online. Most younger people even adults have little knowledge about online-abuse. They may have little idea about what possible danger they may encounter, like cyberbullying, sexting, cheating, plagiarizing, etc. It is challenged because we cannot always know what students would do online. And it is hard to teach when we ourselves do not know how danger would come. Like Treaty Education, Digital Citizenship Education is mandated in curriculum. Schools and teachers are required to teach about it. It is important to find connections between digital citizenship and the Saskatchewan curriculum. We can connect with Health curricular; issues like cyberbullying can bring huge influence on students’ emotional and mental health. For English Language Arts (ELA), when we teach students about identity, it is important to teach digital identity as well. In law class, we could talk about the digital law. Unfortunately, I did not fine many connections, but I think there are still room there for digital citizenship education to fit in. I want know more about teaching digital citizenship in classroom. Unfortunately, not so much educators address digital education in reality. We teachers should take digital education seriously.
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