According to ISTE,The International Society for Technology in Education, in their new NETS (National Educational Technology Standards) Digital Citizenship is shown when students understand the human, cultural, and societal issues related to technology and practice legal and ethical behavior. In practice students will: advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information and technology. exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that supports collaboration, learning, and productivity demonstrate personal responsibility for lifelong learning. exhibit leadership for digital citizenship In our position as teachers and educators, we need to do the following to teach 'digital citizenship' skills to our students. Define digital citizenship in a variety of ways for the students we teach. This includes copyright and validating or vetting sources students use in all types of academic and non-academic work.

Resouces

• Cut and Paste: a video outlining how different types of information can be used in academic or non-profit works. (From: A Plethora of Technology)

• A Fair(y) Use Tale: A mashup of Disney Films to define copyright and the public domain.

• Creative Commons: Is a site that encourages the sharing and remixing of information and media. They have several videos on their site that explain copyright and the use of certain types of media in education.

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• Search Engine Tools:

• Link: Shows all of the sites that links to the site or domain you specify.
  
• Site: Tool that allows you to search a specific site or domain.
• Filetype: Tools that allows you to search for documents of a particular file type.

• Find out who owns a website by truncating the URL to the domain name and using 'easywhois' to see who owns the domain. (http://www.martinlutherking.org)
• Internet Archive's: Way Back Machine: This site will show you the history of almost any site on the Internet. What did your favorite site look like early in its life?