Mastery unit 3: Digital Citizenship 

Standards Assessed
2. Digital Citizen: Students recognize the rights, responsibilities and opportunities of living, learning and working in an interconnected digital world, and they act and model in ways that are safe, legal and ethical. Students:
(A) cultivate and manage their digital identity and reputation and are aware of the permanence of their actions in the digital world.
(B) engage in positive, safe, legal and ethical behavior when using technology, including social interactions online or when using networked devices.
(C) demonstrate an understanding of and respect for the rights and obligations of using and sharing intellectual property.
(D) manage their personal data to maintain digital privacy and security and are aware of data-collection technology used to track their navigation online.

7. Global Collaborator: Students use digital tools to broaden their perspectives and enrich their learning by collaborating with others and working effectively in teams locally and globally. Students:
(C) contribute constructively to project teams, assuming various roles and responsibilities to work effectively toward a common goal.
(D) explore local and global issues and use collaborative technologies to work with others to investigate solutions.

Enduring Understandings

Essential Questions
Students will understand that...
  • Participants will understand that the establishment of digital citizenship results in guidelines which ensure the safety of all members of the digital community.
  • Participants will understand that digital citizenship equally pertains to the rights and responsibilities of digital natives and digital immigrants.
  • Participants will understand that digital citizenship is applicable across curriculums and grade levels and is primarily concerned with the safety of all students when using technology.
Students will be able to answer...
  • What are the implications of digital citizenship in today’s world?
  • How does digital citizenship relate to both digital immigrants and digital natives?
  • How does digital citizenship apply to all grade levels and curriculum?

Knowledge 

Skills 
The student will know...​​
  • Participants will understand the definition of digital citizenship.
  • Participants will understand the nine elements of digital citizenship.
The student will be able to...
  • Participants will be able to apply the nine elements of digital citizenship appropriately to their curriculum and grade level(s).

Performance Task

Through the Common Sense Media curriculum students will understand and practice all nine elements of digital citizenship in their daily life: 
  1. Digital Access: full electronic participation in society.
  2. Digital Commerce: electronic buying and selling of goods. 
  3. Digital Communication: electronic exchange of information. 
  4. Digital Literacy: process of teaching and learning about technology and the use of technology. 
  5. Digital Etiquette: electronic standards of conduct or procedure.
  6. Digital Law: electronic responsibility for actions and deeds 
  7. Digital Rights & Responsibilities: those freedoms extended to everyone in a digital world.
  8. Digital Health & Wellness: physical and psychological well-being in a digital technology world.
  9. Digital Security (self-protection): electronic precautions to guarantee safety.