Issues of Web Awareness/Digital Citizenship

1. Cyber Bullying

1.1. Mean Texts

1.2. Mean Emails

1.3. Rumours

1.4. Embarassing Pictures, Videos, etc.

2. Authenticity

2.1. Anyone can publish anything on the Web.

2.2. Currently, no Web standards exist to ensure accuracy.

2.3. Web resources rarely have editors or fact-checkers.

3. Copyright

3.1. Copy and Paste

3.2. Too Easy

3.3. Laws in Place

3.4. Need permission and citation

4. Ethical

4.1. Issues

4.1.1. Identity

4.1.2. Privacy

4.1.3. Ownership

4.1.4. Trustworthiness

4.1.5. Participation

5. Consumers

5.1. Not aware of what they are consuming

5.2. How much of an impact it may be having on them

5.3. Think before you click

5.4. Lack basic skills to protect selves online

6. Sexually Explicit Material

6.1. Negative Influence

6.2. Child may become stressed

6.3. Child may go searching for more

6.4. May interfere with healthy sexual development

6.5. May prematurely sexualize children