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Welcome to the Digital Citizenship Website

Digital Citizenship is a concept which helps teachers, technology leaders and parents to understand what students/children/technology users should know to use technology appropriately. Digital Citizenship is more than just a teaching tool; it is a way to prepare students/technology users for a society full of technology. Digital citizenship is the norms of appropriate, responsible technology use.  Too often we are seeing students as well as adults misusing and abusing technology but not sure what to do. The issue is more than what the users do not know but what is considered appropriate technology usage.

Overview of the Nine Elements

information fluency
Information fluency is about interpreting information unconsciously and intuitively so that we are able to extract knowledge, interpret its meaning and significance
solution fluency
Solution fluency is about problem solving – solving a problem presented to us through an intuitive process. It requires the ability to interpret information and extract knowledge so that we are able to find a solution to the problem
media fluency
Media fluency is actually two-fold, the first involves the interpretation (listening) of the media; the second, involves how we leverage this for our own output (communication). 
This fluency involves both the communication aspect, as well as the literacy. We cannot produce something without knowing how to use the technology, but we cannot leverage the message without understanding this. Therefore, there may be some repetition between the two units. 
Crockett, Jukes and Churches (2011:58) believe that media fluency means being a “‘prosumer’ – an effective consumer and producer of digital content”. The first part of this process is explained in this unit, whereas the Leverage process is explained in communication
collaboration fluency
All over the world there are people who are communicating and working together…yet they may never meet face to face! The reality is with today’s technology, distance has become a concept that is relative. The authors of the book “Literacy is not enough” (Jukes, Churches, Crockett, 2011) worked on an entire project without ever meeting face-to-face until after the completion thereof! So how did they do it? Well, they had already mastered the skill of collaboration as well as being digitally literate. In this section we will look at the steps involved with the process.
 creativity fluency