Digital citizenship

1. DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP
Core Elements

2. DIGITAL ACCESS
• This is the full electronic participation in society.
• Working toward equal digital rights and supporting electronic access is the starting
point of a Digital Citizenship.
• Helping to provide and expand access to technology should be goal of all digital
citizens.

3. DIGITAL COMMERCE
• This is the buying and selling of goods electronically.
• A large share of market economy is being done electronically.
• Illegal trade my occur, so user need to learn about how to be effective
consumers in a new digital economy

4. DIGITAL COMMUNICATION
• This is the exchange of information using digital electronics.
• Forms of communication are no longer limited, there is now a variety of
choices .e.g., email, SMS, etc.
• The expanding digital communication world means people can now
communicate instantly.

5. DIGITAL LITERACY
• Teaching and learning about technology and the use of technology.
• Technology should be enforced more at schools so that by the time students
reach tertiary, they are literate digitally.
• Digital Citizenship involves educating people in a new way.

6. DIGITAL ETIQUETTE
• Electronic standards of conduct or procedure.
• Technology users often see this area as one of the most
pressing problems when dealing with Digital Citizenship.

7. 5 FLUENCIES OF DIGITAL
CITIZENSHIP

8. INFORMATION FLUENCY
• ASK
• ACQUIRE
• ANALYSE
• APPLY
• ASSESS

9. SOLUTION FLUENCY
• DEFINE
• DISCOVER
• DREAM
• DESIGN
• DELIVER
• DEBRIEF

10. MEDIA FLUENCY
• MESSAGE
• VERBALISE
• VERIFY
• MEDIUM
• FORM
• FLOW
• ALIGNMENT

11. COLLABORATION FLUENCY
• ESTABLISH
• ENVISION
• ENGINEER
• EXECUTE
• EXAMINE

12. CREATIVE FLUENCY
• VISUAL-SPATIAL
• LINGUISTIC-VERBAL
• LOGICAL-MATHEMATICAL
• BODILY-KINAESTHETIC
• MUSICAL
• INTERPERSONAL

13. IMPACT OF DIGITAL DIVIDE
ON SOCIAL CAPITAL
RAMIFICATIONS

14. • This is the economic and social unfairness towards getting access
concerning information and communication technologies.
• Social capital is the joint value of all social networks and the preferences
that arise from these networks in assisting each other.
• The impact of digital divide to social capital occurs when other people
cannot access or have limited access to social networks, when other
people resist change to gain access to technology.
• The ramifications thereof, will result in a person not being part of the
global economy.