Digital Citizenship and Cyber Safety Curriculum by Amy Billig and Jennifer Cronk

1. Digital Citizenship:
a. Intellectual Property/ Creative Content
b. Creative Content Copyright
c. Digital Citizenship in Schools (the 7th Grade participates in the Digiteen project, a collaborative global digital citizenship workshop hosted by Vicki Davis)
d. Protecting Creative Content

2. Cyber Safety:
To start off the semester every one of my students took a survey on Google Docs (forms) that was anonymous that asked them about their computer usage.
These the results details are used to begin each unit.

Cyber Safety- Overview presentation using materials from Netsmartz

3. TMI- Too much information:
Using videos, a PowerPoint and news articles the class is presented with mistakes to very wise strategic moves using the Internet. These cases are studied and alternative endings are proposed if the opposite action had been taken.
a. Profiles/usernames
b. NASL (Name, Age, Sex, Location)
c. Information travels (repercussions of rash posting)
d. Offline Consequences of online actions

Students will see how posting inappropriate pictures, and statements have damaged peoples lives, causing job loss, and rejection from colleges.
Student work collaboratively on Google Docs and Wikispaces in brainstorming and troubleshoot scenarios revolving around this topic

4. Cyber Bullying-
Using videos, a PowerPoint, news articles and Facebook images (taken from profile posts) Student are illuminated on how Cyber Bullying is far more vicious than the traditional bullying that would occur ten years ago. Students begin to understand in the cases of Megan Meyers and Phoebe Prince that there is no escape from Cyber Bullying, it follows the victim via the phone, texts, Facebook, email and chat.
a. Defining Cyberbullying
b. Dealing with Cyberbullying
c. Consequences of Cyberbullying- (videos and class discussion)
a. Broken Friendship video
b. You can’t take it back

5. Cyber Predators-(Cyber Stalking)
Students learn about current stalking incidents where appropriate. Students Parents will be emailed specific cases and articles so there can be a continuing conversation at home.
a. Defining Cyber Predator
b. Grooming
c. Tools for Tracking
d. Survivor Diaries
e. Julie’s Journey & Amy’s Choice
f. Collaborative Activity

6. Social Networking, email IM and chatrooms, reviewing topics in TMI and in-depth discussing the following:
a. Friends lists
b. Privacy settings
c. Postings
d. Social Networking (video)
e. Collaborative Activity


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