TECHNOLOGY

(SECONDARY)

ESSENTIAL UNIT 2 (E02)

(Digital Citizenship)
(JULY 2010)

Unit Statement: Digital Citizenship provides the student with the competencies and
orientations to succeed in a complex, ever-changing technological world. The student
gains mastery in technologies that improve their daily lives, and demonstrate ethical and
legal behavior in the use of technology. Threats to personal safety and to electronic data
are reviewed, and the student defines and practices strategies to protect themselves and to
respect others.
Essential Outcomes: (assessed for mastery)
1. The Student Will summarize and debate the school's acceptable use policy.
2. TSW setup and manage push technology for news acquisition. (e.g. RSS feeds,
Google Alerts, Google Reader)
3. TSW create a real-life digital calendar and maintain it throughout the unit.
4. TSW define plagiarism and copyright, and summarize the relevant aspects of
copyright, intellectual property, trademark, and patent laws, and practice
ethical and legal practices.
5. TSW define ethical and legal behavior regarding inappropriate Web sites, cyber
bullying, cell phone harassment, and sexting.
6. TSW summarize threats to personal safety via technology, including messaging,
sexting, stalking & interaction with strangers, and implications of emerging
technology, (e.g. devices with GPS), and practice safe technology use.
7. TSW inventory their "digital footprint", and identify and discuss the risks and
benefits of social networking and collaborative publishing.
Introduced & Practiced:
1. The Student Will review terminology including emerging technologies.
2. TSW will demonstrate best practices for accounts and passwords.
3. TSW demonstrate ergonomically safe use of equipment.
4. TSW recognize addictive behaviors associated with technology, including online
gaming and substance abuse.
5. TSW recognize phishing and scams regardless of media or device.
6. TSW describe best practices for protecting financial and personal data using online
money management and shopping.
7. TWS demonstrate meta-cognition (learning to learn).

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Suggested Materials:
QSI, at this time, has elected to use the i-Safe curriculum as an integral part of teaching
digital citizenship. Recommendations to use this site might change if another site is
deemed more appropriate in the future. It is available for all students. It is strongly
recommended that teachers become familiar with the curriculum, and take the self-study
course before attempting to teach this unit.

Assessment Rubric on following page.

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Assessment Rubric E02 Digital Citizenship

The use of the following checklist is suggested, but not mandatory. Rather it is a tool to assess
students on essential outcomes. A level mastery means that a student has mastered all essential
parts of the unit at an appropriate high level. The student consistently demonstrated noteworthy
achievement of high quality, particularly in the higher order thinking or performance skills. B
level mastery means that a student has mastered all essential parts of the unit at an appropriately
high level in which the student successfully engaged in higher thinking or performance skills. The
student may receive a D (deficient) if they have not made a reasonable effort on one or more
outcomes.
TSW
A Level Mastery
B Level Mastery
P Progress
Summarize and debate the
school's acceptable use policy
(AUP)

Exceptional summary
of the AUP. Very
convincing, or original
positions debating the
AUP.

Accurately
summarizes the
school's AUP. Makes
a reasonable case
while debating the
AUP.
The student has setup
and managed push
technology.

AUP incompletely or
inaccurately
summarized. Student
has not convincingly
debated the AUP.

Setup and manage push

technology for news
acquisition.

The student has

demonstrated effective
use of push
technology.

Create and maintain a reallife digital calendar throughout

the unit.

The student has

maintained a digital
calendar throughout
the unit and used it in a
productive way.

The student has

successfully set up
maintained a digital
calendar throughout
the unit.

Student has not

successfully set up or
has failed to
adequately maintain a
calendar.

Define plagiarism, and

summarize and practice
ethical and legal practices
relevant to copyright,
intellectual property,
trademark, and patent.

Student demonstrates a
comprehension of
plagiarism and
copyright, and has
modeled exceptional
ethical and legal
practices.

The student has

defined plagiarism and
copyright,
summarized their
relevancy, and
practiced ethical and
legal practices.

Student has not

adequately defined
terms, can not
summarize their
relevancy, or has not
practiced ethical or
legal practices.

Define ethical and legal

behavior regarding
inappropriate Web sites, cyber
bullying, cell phone
harassment, and sexting.
Summarize threats to personal
safety, implications of
emerging technology, and
practice safe technology use.

Student shows superior

comprehension of
ethical and legal
behaviors.

Student has defined

ethical and legal
behaviors.

Student has not

adequately defined
ethical and legal
behaviors.

Student has
comprehensively
summarized threats
and has practiced
model behavior.

Student has
summarized the
threats and has
practiced safe
technology use.

Student has not

summarized the
threats or has not
practiced safe
technology use.

Inventory their
"digital footprint", and
identify and discuss the risks
and benefits of social
networking and collaborative
publishing.

Student has
comprehensively
inventoried, and
thoroughly discussed
risks and benefits.

Student has completed

an inventory,
identified and
discussed risks and
benefits.

Student has not

completed an
inventory, identified
or discussed risks and
benefits.

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Student has not

successfully managed
the technology.