Wednesday, October 19, 2011

The Digital Citizen

In The Digital Diet, the authors certainly give plenty of sensible advice that every Internet user should hear, understand and practice. Since I have grown up using the Internet, this first chapter didn't really shatter the earth for me, personally. But children growing up with the Internet at its now evolved state, need to understand these lessons we have had to learn through its evolution. And there are always those people who are only just venturing into the realm of technology- some of them as teachers in schools- so this chapter would be great to use in a discuss of "technology's essentials" (just as important as simple hardware knowledge).

I appreciate the approach to this subject by these authors, because their list of "tenets" for the the digital citizen can be understood easily enough by anyone of any age along that Internet use spectrum/timeline.
-Respect yourself.
-Protect yourself.
-Respect others.
-Protect others.
-Respect intellectual property.
-Protect intellectual property.
Again, thorough, simply stated, and easy to understand and remember by children as well as adults.

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