Understanding YouTube & Digital Citizenship

Here is an interactive curriculum prepared by Google aimed to support teachers of secondary students (approximately ages 13-17). The curriculum helps educators and students to understand the topics like:

YouTube’s policies
How to report content on YouTube
How to protect their privacy online
How to be responsible YouTube community members
How to be responsible digital citizens

We hope that students and educators gain useful skills and a holistic understanding about responsible digital citizenship, not only on YouTube, but in all online activity.

What Makes YouTube Unique - Basic facts and figures (40 minutes) - Teacher's Guide Lesson 1,Slides Lesson 1
Detecting Lies - (35 minutes) - Teacher's Guide Lesson 2, Slides Lesson 2
Safety Mode - (5 minutes) - Teacher's Guide Lesson 3, Slides Lesson 3
Online Reputation and Cyberbullying - (45 minutes) - Teacher's Guide Lesson 4, Slides Lesson 4
Policy - The Community Guidelines (20 minutes) - Teacher's Guide Lesson 5, Slides Lesson 5
Reporting content - Flagging (20 minutes) - Teacher's Guide Lesson 6, Slides Lesson 6
Privacy part 1 - (40 minutes) - Teacher's Guide Lesson 7, Slides Lesson 7
Privacy part 2 - (50 minutes) - Teacher's Guide Lesson 8, Slides Lesson 8
Copyright - (40 mins) - Teacher's Guide Lesson 9, Slides Lesson 9
Additional resources/Appendix including parent resources - Teacher's Guide Additional Materials, Slides Additional Materials

Or you can download the Full Teacher's Guide or the Full Set of Slides in PDF.

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