Just like explaining the birds and the bees, talking about the “bits and the bytes”of digital citizenship—how to behave safely, responsibly, and ethically in the online world—is a right of passage.

As schools continue to introduce tech tools this new school year, more are developing cybersecurity literacy alongside the technical know-how and other “digital literacies.”

It’s easy to forget that a social network is simply the digital manifestation of dynamics that exist in daily offline life. But social media certainly provides ample opportunities to take those dynamics to the extreme.

Adolescents are less likely than adults to think about the future consequences of their actions. In the online world this can be risky. Here’s what educators and parents are doing to help teens think critically, and safely, about their engagement with the digital world.

Schools are wise to think before adopting 1:1 computing models; rather, they should consider digital citizenship training and instructional readiness.