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Fostering proactive digital citizenship across the
curriculum

Once educators understand what is digital citizenship for
students, they can focus on being proactive with digital
citizenship lessons. With many cross-curricular ties, the
learning objectives can be hit upon in core disciplines
like ELA or Social Studies. This proactive approach
again emphasizes habits of mind versus a reactive, one-
time plug. Remember, with many of the obstacles
students face online, they are not developmentally ready
to tackle them. In this modern age, the importance of
digital citizenship cannot be overstated. Children’s
prefrontal cortex, the area of the brain that controls
impulsivity, decision-making, and compulsivity, isn’t
fully developed until one turns 25. So it is completely
natural that students will misstep, experiment, and
explore as they form their own identities and