Review: digital citizenship and communication
Let us bring Theme 3 together. As a digital citizen you have rights, such as privacy, and responsibilities, such as respecting other people’s privacy and sources. Your posts should be calm, true and clear. Match your tone to your reader: respectful with a teacher, friendly with a close friend, and positive in every message. Good information websites have search boxes, menus, icons, and Contact and About pages. Commercial sites sell, non-commercial sites inform; reviews can be fake and adverts follow your interests. Choose the right source for each job, look at the meta information and the bottom of a page, and compare with a second source. Choose live communication for light and quick matters, and later communication for serious ones or for people in authority. Be polite, patient, helpful and clear.
| Idea | Remember |
|---|---|
| Rights and duties | my right is also your right |
| Tone | fit it to the reader; stay positive |
| Websites and reviews | check features; beware fake reviews |
| Sources | right source for each job; compare two |
| Live or later | quick and light: live; serious: later |
Mixed review on paper. Do these tasks: (1) Write one right and its matching responsibility. (2) Rewrite ‘I can’t help you today’ as a positive message to a teacher, with a title. (3) Name two features of a good information website. (4) Give two signs that a review may be fake. (5) Match a source to each job: a verified article, a route to a museum, a view of old objects. (6) Choose live or later for a request to a principal and explain. Swap with a partner and compare your answers.