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Digital Citizenship Conversation
> On February 20, 2008, in preparation for a Digital Citizenship Conference sponsored by the Missouri Bar Association, I posed the following question to the [|Twitterverse]. > =====Return to Session Page=====


 * [[image:http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/50192582/daves_icon_normal.jpg]] || **dwarlick:** Just because they're digital natives, does that automatically make them digital citizens? How do digital immigrants become citizens? ||
 * || // Over the next several hours Twitter users who follow me, responded with their insights, limited to only 140 characters. // ||
 * **mweller:** - and don't 'immigrants' often make model citizens (better than the 'natives', who take it for granted) ||
 * **karynromeis:** see @dajbelshaw 's post: [] ||
 * **lthumann:** Don't they have to participate in order to be digital citizens? ||
 * **joebjr:** I like to think digital citizenship implies a bit of responsibility and participation. Not enough to just be born into it. ||
 * **dabernethy:** - immigrants become citizens through learning, application, and integrating dig tech in their lives. Open minded to what's new ||
 * **debot:** Early in our country's history only landowners were voting citizens. Blocking digital natives seems disenfranchising. ||
 * **garystager:** how many of our old-fashioned citizens behave as citizens? Why must you keep sorting people into new boxes? ||
 * ** ClareLane :** -Immigrant has ALWAYS been incorrect -it should have been emigrant -but why not call all of us what we are -teachers and learners? ||
 * **nandikerri:** citenzenry takes an acceptance of and conscious participation in the spoken/unspoken 'social contract' of society in which u live ||
 * **nandikerri:** as one of my students said to me-'just b/c we r born into it doesn't mean we know how to use it better-" ||
 * **mctoonish:** I think that goes back to how do we define digital citizenship. ||
 * **paulallison:** Great question! We've been struggling with this at []... How to move toward social action? ||
 * ** ArtGelwicks :** Who has the right to determine what digital citizenship is? This is not an entity with a ruling body and standards. ||
 * **plugusin:** : Great questions. What do we do to teach citizenship? What are the consequences when we don't? ||
 * **hbwenger:** no...it doesn't make them digital citizens...just as in our own lives, 'digital citizenship' needs to be taught and modeled ||
 * **paulallison:** I wonder about all of my own digital connections and whether these have led me away from civic engagement: reforming my schools. ||
 * **johnkrutsch:** we become digital natives by _BEING_ online (always connected, etc...) rather than _GOING_ online. ||
 * **Dowbiggin:** We get naturalized by being huge geeks. (I'm a digital in-between) ||
 * **cnansen:** About digital immigrants becoming citizens? You've done it.. So have others. authentic assessment? Can you lose your citizenship? ||