Marie
Christine Nduwimana
FS
4583-C1
Parenting
Issues and Education
Prof:
Dr. Coleman
November
30, 2016
BLOG
7
2.
What is Digital Citizenship and how can parents teach it to their
children? Include links to two
additional resources (remember to provide descriptions on the content in the
links).
In
the age of digital technology, one of the key things at the fore of most
parents and educators is the way in which children are using this technology.
In recent times, the onset of technology, primarily through social media, has
literally lead to an exodus of cybercrimes, cyber bullying among other crimes
not previously heard of before the onset of technology. As serious as those
problems are, many children have fallen victims to even more severe crimes.
Some children have been lured by total strangers who in many instances pretend
to be someone else. https://www.commonsensemedia.org/videos/super-digital-citizen#
. In the video embedded, it clearly outlined how children use the internet
along with technology. It underscores the danger to which they are exposed to
each time they surf, browse, post or share.
Some
children even agree to meet with these total strangers, only to become victims
of sexual assault, human trafficking and even murder. The concept of digital
citizenship suggests technological responsibility among our children. But for
many, this is a foreign concept. Many children are far more technologically
savvy than their parents. This presents a clear and present danger to the
children. Many manipulate their parents in using this technology and many
parents lag too far behind to even know they are being manipulated.
Parents
however have a responsibility to teach their children to be digital citizens.
This means that parents must themselves learn to be good digital citizens
themselves. Parents must become the example they want to see for their
children. In teaching digital citizenship, there are many steps that parents
must take to ensure their children become technologically responsible. The
first and most important thing for parents to teach to their children is that
everything that is written/posted will be there for life, even after it is
deleted. This means that that one pictures you mistakenly posted, will be
available even after you are grown up and become elderly. The next rule of
thumb for parents to teach to their children is that things aren’t necessarily
as they appear to be on social media. One can easily pretend to be someone
else, or use photos belonging to someone else to easily mislead others. Parents
should have frank discussions with their children about respecting others on
social media, use language that they would normally use in their everyday life
among others.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hppopehsurw
. In this second video, both children and parents are sensitized to the use of
digital technology. Parents are also informed how to be better parents by
monitoring what their children do on social media. Parents should sensitize
children about the dangers of using their cell phones among other gadgets while
trying to do something else.
Many
young adolescents become victims to different crimes simply because they are
using technology. With the onset of Pokémon go and other similar games, many
persons have been killed or injured simply by walking off cliffs, walking into
traffic or bumping into objects.
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