What is Digital Citizenship?

Mike Ribble defines digital citizenship as using technology responsibly and appropriately. Anyone who interacts regularly online automatically becomes a digital citizen. Like any other community, digital citizenship requires members to behave maturely and civilly. Good citizens ensure that digital users have safe and pleasurable experiences.
As internet users, we all need online safety skills and good digital manners so that our actions do not impact others or violate copyright laws. Digital citizens should respect intellectual property rights as they work with new technologies such as 3D printers at school. They also need to know how their behaviors are impacting themselves and other students while participating on a social media site like Instagram, where pictures can’t just disappear when someone deletes them.