Q 1.1.

Digital Access and Divide - The Nine Elements

(Koenyane, n.d.)

Ribble (2011) identifies nine elements that make up digital citizenship, encompassing the issue of the use, abuse and misuse of technology. Briefly, discuss these nine elements.

Nine Elements of Digital Citizenship after Ribble, (2011)

Digital Citizenship is seen as the responsible, appropriate use of technology for interaction in society (Ribble, 2017). According to Ribble (2011) there are 9 elements and 5 fluencies of Digital Citizenship. These include: 

1. Digital Access, 
2. Digital Literacy, 
3. Digital Communication, 
4. Digital Ettiquette, 
5. Digital Rights and Responsibilities
6. Digital Law, 
7. Digital Commerce,
8. Digital Health and Wellness and
9. Digital Safety and Security

These will now be discussed individually..........etc

<These are some examples of text with in-text citations and references>:

There are some important digital citizenship aspects (Crockett, Jukes, & Churches, 2011).

Crockett, Jukes, & Churches (2011) suggest there are some important digital citizenship aspects (Book in-text/referencing example.)

It is well known than digital literacy is hard to teach (Independant Institute of Education, 2017).

Independant Institute of Education (2017) notes that it is well known than digital literacy is hard to teach

A book in-text/referencing example – the module manual in this case.

Ribble (2011) mentions 5 elements of digital fluency OR There are 5 elements of digital fluency (Ribble, 2011)

Book in-text/referencing example that comes up quite a lot.

This is a description of the 9 elements (Ribble, 2017) – web page in-text/referencing example.

Editing references is most appropriate in MS Word 365 (Young, 2017, pp. 1, Pers. Comm.) OR

Young (2017, pp. 1, Pers. Comm.) indicated that editing references is most appropriate in MS Word 365.

In this example, an interview or personal communication in-text/referencing example where 1 page of information was supplied.

References

Crockett, L., Jukes, I., & Churches, A. (2011). Literacy Is Not Enough: 21st Century Fluencies for the Digital Age (1 ed.). (A. P. Services, Ed.) USA: Corwin.

Independent Institute of Education. (2017). Digital Citizenship (2 ed.). (I. I. Education, Ed.) Sandton, Gauteng, South Africa: Independent Institute of Education.

Ribble, M. (2011, October 14). Digital citizenship in schools PB - ISTE & Eurospan. (C. Girvan, H. Sara, M. Manolis, P. Sara, & W. Niall, Eds.) British Journal of Educational Technology, 43(6), 166. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8535.2012.01378_9.x

Ribble, M. (2017). Nine Elements of Digital Citizenship. (Go Daddy Custom Design Group) Retrieved March 07, 2017, from Digital Citizenship: http://digitalcitizenship.net/Nine_Elements.html

Young, P. (2017, March 07). Mr. 2. (M. J. Blogs, Interviewer) Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Retrieved March 07, 2017

Koenyane, M., n.d. The Nine Elements of Digital Citizenship. [Online]
Available at: http://malosenkoenyane.weebly.com/9-elements.html
[Accessed 28 07 2017].