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By: Aaron Reynolds
Matt Davies

The Technology Tail is a cute, creative story about children and their texts, tweets, posts and pics. Don’t be mean and irresponsible! That’s the straight-to-the-point advice “Screen” has for young readers who are active on social media.

Students will strengthen their understanding of ethical online behavior by examining the widespread phenomenon of internet trolling.

Students will critically engage with online information by understanding the categories of disinformation and misinformation and the motivations behind them.

Students will be able to responsibly manage their online identity by understanding what actions create a digital footprint and how those actions can be permanent.

Students will be able to maintain their digital security by understanding common forms of scams.

Students will be able to create and maintain strong passwords in order to protect their personal accounts and data.

Students will be able to recognize the impacts of cyberbullying by comparing and contrasting what bullying looks like in the real world and in digital spaces.

Students will understand how digital images can be easily manipulated, why images are edited, and how to engage critically with online images that may have been edited.

Students will be able to take responsibility for their online actions by identifying some of the key differences between digital and physical communication.

Students will be able to more safely engage in their digital social lives through an understanding of the benefits and risks of making friends online.

Students will be able to avoid plagiarism in their work by understanding the forms plagiarism can take, the forces that can lead to plagiarism, and the best practices to prevent plagiarism.

Students will be able to protect their personal information by understanding the risks of using public Wi-Fi and computers.

8 videos from Center for Civic Education

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This video is part of the ACE creative Digital Citizen Challenge, created in partnership with Common Sense Education.

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