Digisponsibility

Raising responsible citizens, or so-called digizens, is not done by blocking apps or installing massive firewalls that filter out the useful and the useless stuff. When our children start riding their bikes, we can't simply take away the speeding cars or forbid them to cross the main road. It is not about collecting mobile phones and tablets at the school door in the morning. We also don't collect their sweets in the morning. It is not about restricting the world of our sons and daughters and students, but rather about opening the world and explaining it to them. We need to teach them to be responsible online, to be digisponsible. It is about their digisponsibility online. Knowing about the wealth and pitfalls of the world wide web, learning how to stand up for yourself and others, online. How to behave, how to say no, how to play and learn and work online. We need to teach it at school, we need to show our children how to do it, how to be digisponsible.