Digital Citizenship

What this lesson covers

Digital Citizenship is a 10-part Class 6 Computer Science lesson. Each part makes one point and then hands over to the next, so it can be read in a sitting or picked up again at the part you stopped on. It defines the idea in plain words before using it, works through an example step by step, breaks the topic into its parts and compares them, shows where it is used outside the textbook, names the mistakes that cost marks in an exam, ends with a recap of what to remember.

How it begins

Digital citizenship means using technology responsibly, safely and considerately. The principles are not new, honesty, respect, not taking what is not yours. What changes online is scale and permanence: a remark reaches thousands instead of three people, and it does not fade. That difference is what makes this worth a lesson of its own.

The 10 parts

1. The same rules, a bigger audience
2. Your digital footprint
3. Privacy and personal data
4. Handling unkindness online
5. Other people's work
6. Before you post
7. Balance and wellbeing
8. Where it usually goes wrong
9. What to remember
10. Watch one worked through