Aim of the Module
To provide an understanding of what digital citizenship is and how to follow its core principles.
Digital Citizenship
Digital citizenship helps students navigate online spaces with confidence, empathy, and responsibility. This module supports educators in teaching safe habits, respectful communication, and thoughtful decision-making in digital environments.
Learning Objectives
- To stress the importance of digital citizenship.
- To introduce the concept of digital citizenship and its principles of rights, responsibility and respect in digital environments.
- To develop students understanding of how to apply these principles of rights, responsibility and respect in digital environments - to be safe, savvy, and social.
Learning Outcomes
- I can explain what digital citizenship is and why it is important.
- I can discuss the principles of rights, responsibility and respect in digital environments, including how to stay safe, act savvy and engage socially.
Module Content
Part 1
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Digital Environments
Goal: Help students understand what a digital environment is and positive aspects of this.
Digital Environments
Goal: Help students understand what a digital environment is and positive aspects of this.
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Scenario Cards: Physical and Digital Worlds
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What Is a Digital Environment?
Use this video to spark discussion about online spaces students already use, from learning platforms to games and messaging apps. Pause for quick reflections on where students spend time online.
Part 2
What Does it Mean to be a Digital Citizen?
Goal: Help students understand what digital citizenship is and why it is important.
What Does it Mean to be a Digital Citizen?
Goal: Help students understand what digital citizenship is and why it is important.
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How to Stay Safe in Digital Environments – Privacy Settings
Goal: Help students to know how to be safe in digital environments by thinking critically and acting responsibly with privacy settings.
How to Stay Safe in Digital Environments – Privacy Settings
Goal: Help students to know how to be safe in digital environments by thinking critically and acting responsibly with privacy settings.
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What Are Privacy Settings?
Use this video to spark discussion about online spaces students already use, from learning platforms to games and messaging apps. Pause for quick reflections on where students spend time online.
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How to Act Savvy in Digital Environments – Being Wise and Resilient
Goal: Help students understand how being wise and resilient can help them to be savvy in digital environments.
How to Act Savvy in Digital Environments – Being Wise and Resilient
Goal: Help students understand how being wise and resilient can help them to be savvy in digital environments.
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Resilience in Digital Environments
Use this video to spark discussion about online spaces students already use, from learning platforms to games and messaging apps. Pause for quick reflections on where students spend time online.
Part 5
How to Act Responsibly in Digital Environments - Respecting Ourselves and Others in Digital Environments
Goal: Help students understand how to act responsibly, showing respect for themselves and others when engaging socially in digital environments.
How to Act Responsibly in Digital Environments - Respecting Ourselves and Others in Digital Environments
Goal: Help students understand how to act responsibly, showing respect for themselves and others when engaging socially in digital environments.
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