Digital Citizenship

Lessons

1. Digital Citizenship and Cyber Hygiene

1. 1.1 Digital Footprint and Reputation

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2. Description

   In this lesson, students understand how they can control and protect their footprint. As students use the Internet, they are building their digital footprint. This includes social media posts, emails, picture and video uploads amongst other online activity.

3. Objective

   Students will be able to:

   • Understand how their online activity contributes to a permanent and public digital footprint
   • Articulate their own social media guidelines to protect their digital footprint

4. 1.2 Cyberbullying

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5. Description

   In this lesson, students will learn about and discuss cyberbullying. Cyberbullying is the use of electronic communication to harass or target someone. Cyberbullying includes sending, posting, or sharing negative, harmful, false, or mean content about someone else.

6. Objective

   Students will be able to:

   • Understand the impact of cyberbullying, and identify unacceptable bullying behavior
   • Identify proper actions to take if they are victims of cyberbullying or if they observe someone being cyberbullied

7. 1.3 Internet Safety

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8. Description

   In this lesson, students will learn to recognize online predatory behavior and strategies on how to avoid and respond to it. The Internet is a great place to socialize, but it is important to be aware of risks. Common sense and following safety guidelines can help students stay safe online.

9. Objective

   Students will be able to:

   • Identify predatory behavior and how to respond to it online

10. 1.4 Privacy & Security

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11. Description

    In this lesson, students will discuss and examine policies regarding privacy and security. Using best practices like setting strong passwords, reading privacy policies, and using https can help in staying safe online.

12. Objective

    Students will be able to:

    • Use best practices in personal privacy and security, including strong passwords, using https, and reading privacy policies

13. 1.5 Information Literacy

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14. Description

    In this lesson, students will learn about and discuss information literacy. Information literacy is having the ability to find information, evaluate information credibility, and use information effectively.

15. Objective

    Students will be able to:

    • Effectively search for and evaluate resources

16. 1.6 Creative Credit & Copyright

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17. Description

    In this lesson, students will learn what copyright laws are and how to avoid copyright infringement. They will explore why copyright laws are important and how they protect the creators.

18. Objective

    Students will be able to:

    • Explain what copyright laws are and why they are important
    • Find images they are legally allowed to use in their projects
    • Accurately attribute images they find and want to use

19. 1.7 Hacking Ethics

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20. Description

    In this lesson, students will explore and discuss the ethics and legality around hacking. A security hacker is someone who seeks to break through defenses and exploit weaknesses in a computer system or network. There are white hat hackers, who help companies find and protect exploits in their systems, and black hat hackers who hack maliciously.

21. Objective

    Students will be able to:

    • Identify the difference between white hat hacking and black hat hacking
    • Explain career opportunities in cybersecurity

22. 1.8 Digital Citizenship and Cyber Hygiene Quiz

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23. Description

    In this lesson, students complete a summative assessment of the unit’s learning objectives.

24. Objective

    Students will be able to:

    • Prove their knowledge of digital citizenship and cyber hygiene concepts through a multiple choice quiz

2. Project: Public Service Announcement

1. 2.1 Project: Public Service Announcement

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2. Description

   Now that students have learned about digital citizenship and cyber hygiene, they will take what they have learned and create a PSA to inform members in the community about a topic!

3. Objective

   Students will be able to:

   • Create a public service announcement for members of their community about a topic in digital citizenship or cyber hygiene
   • Use google sheets to store and analyze data, and create a data visualization.