Digital citizenship involves core elements like digital access, commerce, communication, literacy, etiquette, law, rights and responsibilities, and health and wellness. It also requires five fluencies: solution fluency, creativity fluency, collaboration fluency, media fluency, and information fluency. Solution fluency involves defining problems, designing solutions, delivering solutions, and evaluating outcomes. Creativity fluency adds meaning through design, art, and storytelling. Collaboration fluency is the ability to work cooperatively online to solve problems and create products. Media fluency analyzes any communication to interpret messages and evaluate effectiveness. Information fluency intuitively extracts and authenticates essential knowledge from information in any form.
3. DIGITAL ACCESS
The internet, world wide web, cell phones,
television and other electronic information
and communication technologies are
opening up ways for the transformation of
the way we live, learn, work, and
communicate, it is important to note that the
decisions of opening, directing or closing of
opportunities is key to bringing social and
economic benefits to people around the
world.
4. DIGITAL COMMERCE
Technology users need to understand that a large
share of market economy is being done
electronically .
Legitimate and legal exchanges are occurring,
but the buyer or seller needs to be aware of the
issues associated with it.
5. DIGITAL COMMUNICATION
One of the significant changes within the digital
revolution is a persons ability to communicate
with other people .
In the 19th century, forms of communication
were limited
6. DIGITAL LITERACY
While schools have made great progress in the area of
technology infusion, much remains to be done.
A renewed focus must be made on what technologies
must be taught as well as how it should be used.
7. DIGITAL ETIQUETTE
Technology users often see this area as one
of the most pressing problems when
dealing with Digital Citizenship.
We recognize inappropriate behaviour
when we see it, but before people use
technology they do not learn digital
etiquette .
8. DIGITAL LAW
Digital law deals with the ethics of
technology within a society.
Unethical use manifests itself in form
of theft and crime.
9. DIGITAL RIGHTS & RESPONSIBILILIES
Just as in the American constitution
where there is a Bill of Rights, there is
a basic set of rights extended to every
digital citizenship.
Digital citizens have the right to
privacy, free speech, etc.
10. DIGITAL HEALTH & WELLNESS
Eye safety, repetitive stress syndrome, and
sound ergonomic practices are issues that
need to be addressed in a new
technological world.
11. SOLUTION FLUENCY
Solution Fluency is the ability to think creatively
to solve problems in real time by clearly defining
the problem, designing an appropriate solution,
delivering the solution and then evaluating the
process and the outcome.
12. CREATIVITY FLUENCY
Creative fluency is the process by
which artistic proficiency adds
meaning through design, art, and
storytelling.
13. COLLABORATION FLUENCY
Collaboration fluency is team working
proficiency that has reached the
unconscious ability to work cooperatively
with virtual and real partners in an online
environment to solve problems and create
original products.
14. MEDIA FLUENCY
There are two components of Media
Fluency.
Firstly, the ability to look analytically at
any communication to interpret the real
message, and evaluate the efficacy of the
chosen medium.
15. INFORMATION FLUENCY
Information fluency is the ability to
unconsciously and intuitively interpret
information in all forms and formats
in order to extract the essential
knowledge, authenticate it, and
perceive its meaning and significance.