dwarlick: Just because they're digital natives, does that automatically make them digital citizens? How do digital immigrants become citizens?

Over the next several hours Twitter users who follow me, responded with their insights, limited to only 140 characters.

mweller: - and don't 'immigrants' often make model citizens (better than the 'natives', who take it for granted)

karynromeis: see @dajbelshaw 's post: http://tinyurl.com/3byc3d

lthumann: Don't they have to participate in order to be digital citizens?

joebjr: I like to think digital citizenship implies a bit of responsibility and participation. Not enough to just be born into it.

dabernethy: - immigrants become citizens through learning, application, and integrating dig tech in their lives. Open minded to what's new

debot: Early in our country's history only landowners were voting citizens. Blocking digital natives seems disenfranchising.

garystager: how many of our old-fashioned citizens behave as citizens? Why must you keep sorting people into new boxes?

ClareLane: -Immigrant has ALWAYS been incorrect -it should have been emigrant -but why not call all of us what we are -teachers and learners?

nandikerri: citenzenry takes an acceptance of and conscious participation in the spoken/unspoken 'social contract' of society in which u live

nandikerri: as one of my students said to me-'just b/c we r born into it doesn't mean we know how to use it better-"

mctoonish: I think that goes back to how do we define digital citizenship.

paulallison: Great question! We've been struggling with this at http://elggplans.wikispaces... How to move toward social action?

ArtGelwicks: Who has the right to determine what digital citizenship is? This is not an entity with a ruling body and standards.

plugusin: : Great questions. What do we do to teach citizenship? What are the consequences when we don't?

hbwenger: no...it doesn't make them digital citizens...just as in our own lives, 'digital citizenship' needs to be taught and modeled

paulallison: I wonder about all of my own digital connections and whether these have led me away from civic engagement: reforming my schools.

johnkrutsch: we become digital natives by _BEING_ online (always connected, etc...) rather than _GOING_ online.

Dowbiggin: We get naturalized by being huge geeks. (I'm a digital in-between)

cnansen: About digital immigrants becoming citizens? You've done it.. So have others. authentic assessment? Can you lose your citizenship?