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=**Goal 4 - Promote and model digital citizenship and Christian discipleship within the context of the digital age.** = = = = = Modeling digital citizenship is also foundational to our roles as educators. I believe it’s critical that we demonstrate, enforce and teach safe, legal and ethical use of information and technology. With my background in the business world we had to abide by legal use of all software and stay within compliance or pay enormous fines to software companies. Due to large budgets in the business world there was never a question as to if we would pay for legal copies of software. Within the education world, the purchasing of any software must be considered at a much more myopic level to validate purchases. Our job as leaders in this context, and especially as Christian disciples, must be to follow the letter of the law in all ways. Demonstrating strict organization and documentation must be at the core of our recordkeeping. = =

My experience in promoting digital citizenship is very limited in regards to the education environment. I believe I have much research ahead of me to thoroughly understand the issues that face our digital students today. Key to our roles is staying one step ahead of the students, if possible! = =