Digital Citizenship
Within the AASL School Library Standards, the key commitment of Shared Foundation VI ���Engage��� is to ���demonstrate safe, legal and ethical creating and sharing of knowledge products independently while engaging in a community of practice and an interconnected world.��� (AASL, 112). Similarly, the ISTE Standards for student learners charge that students should ���recognize the rights, responsibilities and opportunities of living, learning and working in an interconnected digital world, and they act and model in ways that are safe, legal and ethical.���
Both the AASL and ISTE standards strongly focus on the importance of teaching digital citizenship skills, and it���s not difficult to understand why.
The rise of social media platforms over the past two decades has enabled people to make connections that before were nearly impossible in the past, due to time and distance. However, these interactions are not always positive, and as children and teenagers enter the world of online social interactions, where one can hide behind a veil of anonymity or outright deception, data now suggests that these online interactions are causing a major shift in social behavior among today���s youth.
Common Sense Education sites a Pew Research Study conducted in 2018 that found that ���a majority of teens (59 %) have experienced some form of cyberbullying. An alarming statistic that reflects a rising rate suicide among teenagers that continues to grow every year.According to a recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study, there was a 31% increase in the proportion of mental health���related emergency department visits for youth aged 12���17 years during 2020 as compared to 2019. (American Medical Association). This is why it is so important for teachers, media specialists and administrators, as well as students to be aware of the resources available to promote positive digital citizenship and combat cyberbullying.
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