'Turning students into good digital citizens'

What i think about this article is that it's a good idea that Joseph Kahne, Davidson professor of education at Mills College in Oakland, CA, and chairman of the MacArthur Network on Youth and Participatory Politics want to keep young people safe and civil. They talk to them to give them information and new perspectives. They want students to become Good Digital Citizens.Good digital citizens don't engage in cyberbullying, they might tell you. They don't give out too much personal information, and they don't post crazy videos on YouTube that will come back to haunt them in future job interviews. The only problem that they have is that, technology is developing even faster now and they can't set up a standard amount of skills. I still think it's a good idea, teachers can help their students by creating assignments that require them to build up their 21st century skills. Educators could let students use technology more often if all of them were turned into Good Digital Citizens, they could research things online, get information about political or social issues, find different points of views about those issues on the internet, and even create things and post it on the web. And educators can limit their students to what websites they can go to. Using technology in class would make students learn more and if they are good digital citizens then the teachers don't have to worry about their kids bullying others or doing crazy  things. The internet, on the other hand, transcends physical borders. Consequently, digital citizens engage both locally and with groups not connected with their geographic reality. A true digital citizen is simultaneously engaged with  both, Livingston says. But not everybody believes the path to digital citizenship is simply a list of skills that can be checked off once mastered. Helen L. Chen, a research scientist at Stanford University's Center for Innovations in Learning, agrees that K-12 schools need to give students technical skills that will serve them after they have left the classroom. Letting students use technology in class would help them to learn more and also learn things they can use later on in the future. Understanding that what a person sees on a screen is a construct created by somebody--perhaps even oneself--is part of "building a scaffold toward digital citizenship," Wesch says, and the next step beyond critical thinking, information literacy, and creative thinking. "Our lives are so entwined with the digital--so incredibly enmeshed in the digital," he concludes, "that, if you're going to be a  good citizen, period, you have to be a good digital citizen." people have so much technology they can use now and it would be very helpful to use them in the classroom, when the information you need to find isn't in the book or in your notes and when the teacher won't help you.