Ditigal Citizenship for Teachers

Digital citizenship for teachers is very close to digital citizenship for students except that it tends to be less personal. Teachers generally use the Internet for academic, informational, or professional tasks. They retrieve information for use int he classroom or they post information from the classroom, but rarely do teachers, while in the role of teaching, use the Internet for anything personal. Because of this difference in usage, the teachers' adherence to copyright and fair use laws is much more important. Students do not have to worry about them as much because they are dealing with the ideas of others less than teachers.

As a Christian, because we are called to live above reproach, to have moral integrity in every situation, and to do nothing to cause another person to stumble, my standard is not necessarily higher, but certainly less flexible. Whereas another teacher might be able to fudge a little bit on following copyright/fair use laws or might not check a source as closely for inappropriate material without it affecting their conscious, the Holy Spirit would convict me if I did so. The standard to which I am held does not move regardless of the expectations of culture, so I must be responsibily in my digital citizenship as a teacher.