High_School+Strand+5

Students understand human, cultural, and societal issues related to technology and practice legal and ethical behavior. Students: · advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information and technology. · exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that supports collaboration, learning, and productivity. · demonstrate personal responsibility for lifelong learning. · exhibit leadership for digital citizenship. (Obtained from: [] )
 * __ STRAND 5: DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP __**

// Concept1: Safety and Ethics //

// PO //// 1: Determine when it is appropriate to use various personal digital devices. //

Overview: Students take a quiz to determine the strength of their passwords. They learn the reasons for building passwords that are hard to crack and practice creating passwords that follow recommended security rules. []
 * Managing Passwords (High School) **

Overview: Students explore real stories of cyber security threats and damage and learn to think responsibly about securing their families' data at home and when using public computers. They think creatively about how to talk with their families about cyber security. []
 * Safeguarding Your Stuff, My Stuff, Our Stuff (High School) **

Overview: Students learn about the methods criminals use to steal identities online. []
 * Online Identity Theft: Information is Power (High School) **

// PO //// 2: Describe strategies to deal with cyber-bullying situations. //

Overview: This site will help students understand what cyber-bulling is and what they can do to protect themselves. It also shows students what they can do if they are being bullied online. Students explore how bullying behaviors on social networking sites and cell phones can affect teens around the clock. They identify positive actions that bystanders can take to alleviate a particular scenario. Then they write a letter to the editor discussing the positives and negatives of social networking sites, messaging, and cell phone technologies used by teens. []
 * Connected, 24/7 (High School) **

// PO //// 3: Advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible use of digital tools as defined by school board policy and procedures. //

Overview: This lesson plan extends the kind of analytical thinking that students do when they compose book reviews by asking them to review a particular technology—from cell phones to webcams, ink pens to satellite dishes, and everything in between. With an evaluation list and questions, students profile a technology that they've read about, used themselves, or researched, in order to think about why people use the technologies that they do when they do.
 * Paying Attention to Technology: Reviewing a Technology (High School) **

@http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=838

Overview: An article for all learners (young and old) that works through different methods to stay safe while on-line. []
 * "Welcoming the Internet Into Your Classroom" (All grades) **

Overview: This worksheet addresses: What is the technology? How is it used? Who interacts with the technology? Where is the technology used? When is it used? Why is the technology used? @http://www.readwritethink.org/lesson_images/lesson838/tech-profile.pdf
 * Technology Profile (All grades) **

Overview: A short survey that is a starting point to start talking about use of the internet. A good lead in activity that meshes well with the other resources in this PO. []
 * Technology Survey (All grades) **

// PO //// 4: Demonstrate safe online communicating practices regarding personal information //

Overview: Being on guard online helps you protect your information, your computer, and your money. To be safer and more secure online, make these seven practices part of your online routine. []
 * 7 Practices of Computer Safety (Middle and High School) **

Overview: An organization dedicated to keeping people safe on-line. The information available runs from simple techniques to use to how to protect your identity. The resources are broad and can be modified to fit your class. []
 * Stay Safe Online (All Grades) **

// PO //// 5: Analyze and compare how web advertising influences consumer choices. //

Overview: This site talks about the psychology of consumers and how internet advertisers try to capitalize on it. Great discussion pieces. @http://www.consumerpsychologist.com/
 * CONSUMER BEHAVIOR: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MARKETING (High School) **

// PO //// 6: Advocate and exhibit legal and ethical behavior when using technology //

Overview: Cyber-ethics is the discipline of using appropriate and ethical behaviors and acknowledging moral duties and obligations pertaining to online environments and digital media. A nice rubric shows different levels of ethical and legal use. []
 * Cyber-Ethics (High School) **

Overview: Technology access in the 21st Century has created an increasing demand to prepare our students to use that technology safely, legally, and ethically in our school systems as well as socially and eventually professionally. A collection of different lessons across different disciplines that can be used in the classroom. @http://learntech.ties.k12.mn.us/Digital_Citizenship.html
 * Digital Citizenship Means Responsible Use (High School) **

// Concept 2: Leadership for Digital Citizenship //

// PO //// 1: Exhibit digital citizenship by consistently leading by example and advocating social and civic responsibility to others. //

This PO is characterized by the ideas in Concept 1 at the highest level. Students who can show that they are leaders in digital citizenship are the students who can consistently show that they are keeping themselves safe while searching and/or sharing while online. The sites in Concept 1 can all be applied to this PO with the idea of talking about our social and civic responsibility regarding our safety and ethics. A person who can exhibit this PO is one who can demonstrate their ethical use of digital media and show that they are conforming to the norms and laws of society.

// Concept 3: Impact on Technology //

// PO //// 1: Develop a possible technological solution for a contemporary issue. //

Students are given a situation in which they are to appropriately apply the ideas from Concept 1 to create a solution to a problem. The solution needs to demonstrate the rules of ethics in their solution. An example could be the economic crisis characterized during 2009. How can this issue be resolved in a fair fashion to the citizens of the country?