Digital Citizenship

Course Goals

• Demonstrate digital etiquette and responsible use of digital communication.
• Assess the challenges of digital technology, such as cyberbullying, the digital divide, safety issues, and privacy issues.
• Analyze computer hardware and software applications and solve common computer issues.
• Examine a computer's hardware components, including input, output, processing, and storage devices, and solve common hardware issues.
• Show efficient keyboarding skills and produce digital products such as emails.
• Evaluate the place of digital technology within a person's life and how to use it in healthy ways.
• Create word files and spreadsheets using appropriate software.
• Evaluate data on a spreadsheet using charts.
• Employ strategies to distinguish credible information from misinformation.
• Evaluate the impact of digital media on people and society.
• Examine safe, ethical, and legal ways to use intellectual property.
• Create effective presentations using image, audio, and video files.
• Evaluate the best practices for protecting user data.
• Analyze the importance of having a positive online identity.
• Examine responsible ways to use digital technology.