Digital Citizenship Self-Paced Class

Hello, and thank you for your interest in Digital Citizenship self-paced class!  This is a self-paced class that will not meet via Zoom meetings, but will occur during a 6-week period asynchronously, or on-demand, meaning the student can complete their work at their convenience.  The class is geared towards a middle school and high school audience for children in the age range of 13 to 18 and no prerequisite knowledge is required.  The focus of this class is for students to learn how to safely and responsibly use the internet and build each individual student into a responsible digital citizen.  

Student communication with the teacher will occur through the weekly Discussion Assignments. These are ongoing discussion threads where the teacher will post a question for the student to respond directly to the question as well as to teacher responses.  These Discussion Assignments will be located in the discussion thread in the Outschool Classroom.  

The topics that will be covered in this class are as follows:

1.  Digital Citizenship
     ♦  What is Digital Citizenship?
     ♦  Digital Footprint
     ♦  Think Before You Share
     ♦  Respect Boundaries
2.  Safety & Privacy
     ♦  What is Privacy?
     ♦  Strong Passwords
     ♦  Copyright & Fair Use
     ♦  Phone Safety
3.  Savvy Searching
     ♦  Savvy Searching
     ♦  Improving Research Skills
     ♦  Google Search
     ♦  Plagiarism
4.  Digital Commerce
     ♦  Digital Commerce
     ♦  Illegal Downloading
     ♦  Avoid Scams
     ♦  Online Scams You Might Get Fooled By!
5.  Digital Health
     ♦  Good Posture
     ♦  How to Save Your Eyes From Screens
     ♦  Good Ergonomics
     ♦  Are You Addicted to the Internet?
6.  Social Media
     ♦  Identity & Self-Esteem
     ♦  Oversharing: Think Before You Post
     ♦  Cyberbullying
     ♦  Avoid Digital Harassment

For each lesson students will have 4 - 5 topical videos via a link to an EdPuzzle video. Students do not require any login nor software download to access and complete the videos.  EdPuzzle removes advertisements (e.g., from YouTube videos) and allows the teacher to add comprehension questions throughout the video for students to answer.  

Towards the end of each lesson students will answer the Discussion Assignment in the discussion thread of the Outschool Classroom.  Students are required to use critical thinking skills to answer questions either directly (that have a correct/incorrect answer), or opinion-based.  Opinion-based questions will require the student to explain the basis and reasoning for their opinion.  

Please do not hesitate to reach out to me if you have further questions about the Digital Citizenship self-paced class.  Thank you for your interest and I look forward to meeting your child in my online classroom!

Kristi Robertson