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What Concepts Does Digital Citizenship Include?

If you want to teach this subject, you'll want to focus
on seven key concepts:

These seven topics may sound complex, but they’re
surprisingly simple once you start planning.

1. Empathy

When you want to teach students how to be good digital
citizens, teaching empathy is a great starting point.
This is because empathy is crucial to understanding how
people talk and behave online.

Because internet use relies largely on text-based
communications, it’s impossible to hear someone’s vocal
tone, see their facial expressions, or understand other
non-verbal cues that you get when you’re speaking to
someone face-to-face. As a result, it’s incredibly easy for
internet users to make quick, harsh judgments about
someone’s statements online.