Digital Citizenship
Assignment 1: Pre-Test
Click here to take the digital citizenship pre-test
Assignment 2: Your Online Image
Directions:
Part 1
Answer the following guiding questions in a word document in complete sentences.
- Can you tell what a person is truly like just based on their online persona?
- How does the online image of a person reflect on their individual character?
- Do you present yourself differently online than offline?
- What is similar and what is different about your online and offline selves?
- If you had to walk around with a sign around your neck with your most recent online post, would you be proud?
- What are the risks for creating an online persona that is different from an offline persona? What are the benefits?
- What are the reasons people may act differently online than offline?
Part 2
Just like each step you take down a sandy path, each click you make online leaves a digital footprint. It is important o understand what information about you may be available online, how this information is created and stored, and what you can do to control it.
Directions:
Using Google, Yahoo, and Bing search engines searching the following combinations of your name:
First Name, Last Name "Jane Doe"
First Middle Last "Jane Louise Doe"
Last, First "Doe Jane"
First Last Current City, State "Jane Doe Somewhereville, ST"
Answer the following questions in the same word document:
1. On what page did you find information about yourself?
2. How many results did you find about yourself?
3. What kind of information did you find?
4. Was the information accurate?
Thinking of the social media accounts you have, create a table in your Word document to chart the following information:
*Turn in your completed assignment to EngradePro. Ask a teacher for help if this is your first time using the program.
Assignment 3 - Digital Footprints
Watch the video below on YouTube about Digital Footprints, then answer the questions that follow.
Directions:
Review the video as needed to answer the following questions in a Word document.
1. What do you believe is the main message Michelle Clark is trying to get across about digital footprints? (at least 3 full sentences)
2. Do you agree with Michelle Clark's view on digital footprints and the impact they have on the user? Why or why not? (at least 3 full sentences)
3. What do you think is the most important statement Michelle made in her 'spoken word poetry'?
4. When someone does choose to use social media, what are five tips you would give to help them keep their personal information safe?
Please submit to EngradePro when you are finished.
Review the video as needed to answer the following questions in a Word document.
1. What do you believe is the main message Michelle Clark is trying to get across about digital footprints? (at least 3 full sentences)
2. Do you agree with Michelle Clark's view on digital footprints and the impact they have on the user? Why or why not? (at least 3 full sentences)
3. What do you think is the most important statement Michelle made in her 'spoken word poetry'?
4. When someone does choose to use social media, what are five tips you would give to help them keep their personal information safe?
Please submit to EngradePro when you are finished.
Assignment 4 - Social Media Packet
Guiding Questions:
- Can you tell what a person is truly like just based on their online persona?
- How does the online image of a person reflect on their individual character?
- What guidelines should a person consider before posting, sharing, or commenting online?
DID YOU KNOW...
The Number of Employers Using Social Media to Screen Candidates is at an all time high
- 57 percent are less likely to interview a candidate they can't find online
- 54 percent have decided not to hire a candidate based on their social media profiles
- Half of employers check current employees' social media profiles, over a third have reprimanded or fired an employee for inappropriate content
- 70 percent of employers use social media to screen candidates, up from 11 percent in 2006
Check out the full article here on CareerBuilder
Your job is to pretend you are on an interview panel for a company selecting high school interns for a summer position. Review the following social media packet of four applicants. Use the information on each person's digital footprint to respond to the Internship Interview Committee Decision Making form.
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Submit your finished responses to EngradePro.
Assignment 5 - Safe or Sacked?
The last assignment focuses on the impact social media has on your ability to obtain a job. Your use of social media also has an important impact on your ability to KEEP a job.
The assignment and all directions can be found below. Please save the word document on your drive and submit it to EngradePro with your finished responses.
The assignment and all directions can be found below. Please save the word document on your drive and submit it to EngradePro with your finished responses.
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Assignment 6 - The Google Effect
What is the Google Effect? How does it impact our memory?
Directions:
All questions should be answered in a Word document and submitted to Engrade when you are finished.
Part 1
Begin this assignment by taking the following quiz: Digital Amnesia
Part 2
Read the the article Digital dependence 'eroding human memory'
Answer the following questions:
1. According to the article, what is digital amnesia?
2. What does the article say are the effects of digital dependence on our memory?
All questions should be answered in a Word document and submitted to Engrade when you are finished.
Part 1
Begin this assignment by taking the following quiz: Digital Amnesia
Part 2
Read the the article Digital dependence 'eroding human memory'
Answer the following questions:
1. According to the article, what is digital amnesia?
2. What does the article say are the effects of digital dependence on our memory?
Part 3
Next, watch the following video on YouTube about "The Google Effect"
Next, watch the following video on YouTube about "The Google Effect"
Answer the following questions:
1. What does the airplane scenario at the beginning of the video illustrate?
2. What is the difference between nondeclarative and declarative memory?
3. What is the Google Effect as described in the video?
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Part 4
Read the information below taken from a report from Kaspersky Labs
Part 5
Answer these final questions in your Word document then please submit to Engrade.
- Using all of the information you have learned, what is your point of view on "The Google Effect" and "Digital Amnesia"?
- What are some benefits and drawbacks to this phenomenon?
- Where do you store important information that you need to know?
- What impact do you think the Google Effect will have in the future?
Assignment 7 - Creative Commons
What makes someone a creator? What rights do we have to the content that we create?
When you create things, do you ever get your inspiration from other people’s creative work?
Examples:
When you create things, do you ever use someone else’s creative work, to make something new?
Examples:
In order to use the creative work of others, it has to be done legally. You can do this by getting a copyright or through fair use.
Read over the following definitions to learn more:
When you create things, do you ever get your inspiration from other people’s creative work?
Examples:
- Writing a song with the “sound” of a musician you like, but with a different melody and different lyrics
- Writing a poem that’s in a style that resembles another poem you’ve read, but is about something different
- Designing a website that uses some of the colors and “look” of another site you like, but has different content
- Writing a paper based on a news story you’ve seen on TV or read about online, but in your own words and with additional sources
- Drawing a picture that’s inspired by something you’ve read or a song you’ve heard
When you create things, do you ever use someone else’s creative work, to make something new?
Examples:
- Using a song as a soundtrack to a video you have made
- Posting someone else’s writing on your blog
- Adding pictures created by someone else to your Facebook profile
- Showing a clip from a movie in a video review of that movie
- Copying a paragraph from a news story and using it in a report for school
In order to use the creative work of others, it has to be done legally. You can do this by getting a copyright or through fair use.
Read over the following definitions to learn more:
So how can someone protect their work and decide how to share it safely? By using Creative Commons...
Watch the following video to learn more about Creative Commons. You can stop the video at 4:35
When you are finished, click here to download your assignment.
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Lesson information taken from Common Sense Education