Cybersecurity Essential Questions and activities
The Digital Citizenship course is designed for students with no background in computer science, and there are no course prerequisites. Students will explore topics related to digital citizenship and cyber hygiene
Digital Footprint and Reputation
○What is a digital footprint?
○What is your digital footprint and reputation?
○What does it mean that the internet is public and permanent?
○Who looks at your digital footprint and reputation?
○What are some recommended social media guideline?
○How can you maintain your digital footprint? ○What does your digital footprint say about you? .
- Example activities:
- What is your digital footprint?
- Are you going to make any changes in what you post on social media?
Cyberbullying
○What is cyberbullying?
○What are the impacts of cyberbullying?
○Are there cyberbullying roles?
○What do you do if you are being bullied?
○What do you do if you see bullying?
○How can you be an upstander?
- Example activities:
- Explore cyberbullying scenarios: What would you do?
Internet Safety
○What are some ways to stay safe online?
○What are some online safety guidelines?
- Example activities:
- Explore Internet safety scenarios: What would you do?
Privacy and Security
○What are data privacy and security?
○How can you keep personal data secure and private?
○What can happen if you data is stolen and what can you do about it?
- Example activities:
- Test out various passwords on a site
- Explore Google’s privacy policy: What do they know about you?
Information Literacy
○What is information literacy?
○How can you do effective internet searches?
○What are some techniques for judging source legitimacy and identifying misinformation?
- Example activities:
- Create and test search queries
- Explore evidence for using sources
