Digital citizenship is how educators, citizens, and parents can teach where the lines of cyber safety and ethics are in the interconnected online world their students will inhabit. Aside from keeping technology users safe, digital citizenship also prepares students to survive and thrive in an environment embedded with information, communication, and connections. Digital citizenship can be defined as the norms of appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to technology use. In their book "Digital Citizenship in Schools" (2007), Ribble and Bailey identify nine elements that comprise Digital Citizenship. These elements are discussed in this article. In the online world, educated digital citizens are well equipped to safely and successfully navigate the online world, behave appropriately to avoid problems, and take advantage of the information and communication wealth that defines life online.