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Exploring Teachers’ Beliefs about Digital Citizenship and Responsibility

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Promoting and modeling digital citizenship and responsibility can be a challenge to today’s teachers. This paper presents a review of related studies connected with the digital citizenship movement and teachers’ beliefs gleaned from the literature. It then reports a descriptive study which explores teachers’ beliefs about and opinions on digital citizenship and responsibility.

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  1. State University of New York at Oswego, Oswego, NY, 13126, USA

    Harrison Hao Yang

  2. South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631, China

    Pinde Chen

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  1. School of Engineering, University of Bridgeport, University Avenue 221, Bridgeport, 06604, USA

    Khaled Elleithy

  2. School of Engineering, University of Bridgeport, University Avenue 221, Bridgeport, 06604, USA

    Tarek Sobh

  3. Dept. Civil & Environmental Engineering, Polytechnic University, Jay Street 333, Brooklyn, 11201, USA

    Magued Iskander

  4. Dept. Civil & Environmental Engineering, Polytechnic University, Jay Street 333, Brooklyn, 11201, USA

    Vikram Kapila

  5. Old Dominion University, Monarch Way 4111, Norfolk, 23508, USA

    Mohammad A. Karim

  6. School of Engineering, University of Bridgeport, University Avenue 221, Bridgeport, 06604, USA

    Ausif Mahmood

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Yang, H.H., Chen, P. (2010). Exploring Teachers’ Beliefs about Digital Citizenship and Responsibility. In: Elleithy, K., Sobh, T., Iskander, M., Kapila, V., Karim, M., Mahmood, A. (eds) Technological Developments in Networking, Education and Automation. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9151-2_9

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