The paper resume is dead. Our students’ modern-day resumes will consist of their unique online spaces. How are we, as their teachers, facilitating their online presence and teaching them how to be literate in 2015? Rebranding digital citizenship is not an option. It is an imperative. It is our professional and moral responsibility as educators. We need to rebrand digital citizenship so that it becomes part of our daily practice. A “vaccination” approach to digital citizenship—having a one-hour conversation with students about the appropriate use of technology that they encounter only outside of the school—will not suffice. The technology itself, and our guidance on its use, need to have a regular place in the classroom and in our students’ lives at school.
