IAA Statement on Digital Citizenship

IAA Statement on Digital Citizenship

Digital citizens engage in a safe, responsible, critical, culturally competent and principled manner with digital technologies. They use all types of technology for meaningful democratic engagements for the purpose of critically deconstructing and reconstructing knowledge, skills and dispositions.

Digital citizenship is developed through the following strands:

• Access towards full electronic participation in society by understanding how the internet works;
• Commercial skills towards electronic buying and selling of goods;
• Electronic communication skills are developed:
  • To develop ways of thinking to critique sources of online information during the teaching and learning process in order to critically engage with the use of technology;
  • To use (net)etiquette that pertains to electronic standards of conduct or procedures through which students emphatically engage with others;
  • To create and communicate meaningful and purposeful information;
  • To use guidance law on intellectual information and copyright, to develop the skills of acting with academic integrity; and
  • To understand the ramifications of our choice on our digital legacies through our digital footprint left online; 
• Online rights and responsibilities extend to all by respecting freedom and opinions expressed in an ethical and considerate way;
• Develop responsible usage skills in students to determine:
  • The quality and quantity of time spent online;
  • The responsible sourcing of information to distinguish between types of information for purposeful usage; and
  • The logical intellectual engagement with the materials sourced.