Digital Citizenship:Prepare today’s learners for online success

1. 1. What is the main idea of digital citizenship?

• Learners are taught to only interact in a respectful way in the physical world. Learners can act differently in the digital world.

• Learners are taught to interact in a respectful way in the digital world just as they are taught to interact respectfully in the physical world.

  
  

• Digital citizenship is a set of skills that only young learners need to be taught.

2. What does a responsible online learner know?

• How to set boundaries and be mindful of time spent online.

• The more time spent online, the better, because the outcome is more important than the process.

• That interacting online responsibly does not require knowing how to use communication tools.

3. Which of the following is a characteristic of a digital footprint?

• A digital footprint can usually be deleted, updated, or changed easily.

• A digital footprint does not shape others’ perceptions.

• A digital footprint is an online presence that is not easily forgotten and may have negative implications in the future.

4. Educators play a vital role in helping learners become familiar with basics of copyright and fair use. This is done by following which of these strategies:

• Allow learners to plagiarize digital content and claim the work as their own.

• Teach learners the difference between citations and attributions and using each appropriately.

• Teach learners to interact with resources without regard for ownership of digital content.

5. Information literacy is a set of skills needed to find, retrieve, analyze, and use information. Today's learners must be competent in these skills to carry out which of these tasks:

• Evaluate sources for bias, identify misinformation, avoid schemes, and understand multiple perspectives.

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  Evaluate sources for bias and misinformation only.

  
  

• Evaluate sources in a manner that helps avoid phishing schemes only.