Still, digital citizenship entails more than just protecting oneself. Incidents of cyberbullying and harassment continue to occur regularly,

Somewhere between kids’ intuitive social savvy and their online behavior lies an opportunity for both parents and educators to teach responsible digital citizenship, and there are plenty of organizations dedicated to this task alone.

Educators have lots of options in modeling good digital citizenship with projects they can embark upon with students

I would even include writing, creating, submitting, and sharing work digitally on the computer via email or instant messaging in the category of doing old things (communicating and exchanging) in old ways (passing stuff around).

But new technology still faces a great deal of resistance. Today, even in many schools with computers, Luddite administrators (and even Luddite technology administrators) lock down the machines, refusing to allow students to access email.

Two big factors stand in the way of our making more and faster progress in technology adoption in our schools. One of these is technological, the other social.