Unit 3.1. Protect: Rights & Responsibilities

What are Digital Rights & Responsibilities?

Digital Rights & Responsibilities:   those freedoms extended to everyone in a digital world.

"Just as in the American Constitution where there is a Bill of Rights, there is a basic set of rights extended to every digital citizen. Digital citizens have the right to privacy, free speech, etc. Basic digital rights must be addressed, discussed, and understood in the digital world.  With these rights also come responsibilities as well.  Users must help define how the technology is to be used in an appropriate manner.  In a digital society these two areas must work together for everyone to be productive."

Lesson Topics

Each numbered section in the right column begins a 20-minute lesson with the following topics:

3.1.a. Rights & Responsibilities and Digital Footprint  

3.1.b. Appropriate Use of Technology

3.1.c. Online Privacy

3.1.d. Online Reputation

Lesson Format

1. Video: View the video or Web page

2. Essential question: The student facilitator poses the question or issue you are to consider

3. Think / Ink: Individually think about your personal reaction to the video and write your response to the essential question on your Journal page. 5 minutes.

4. Discuss: Participate in a class discussion comparing your response to that of other students. 5-10 minutes.

5. Conclusion: The facilitator can summarize and present a possible consensus to the question, or decide to disagree. 2 minutes. Collect student Journals.

Lessons

3.1.a. Introduction to Rights & Responsibilities

Video: View this YouTube video, "Digital Citizenship Rights & Responsibilities" to see that it summarizes many things you've learned about Digital Citizenship.

Essential question: Name a technology "right" and a technology "responsibility." Have you seen someone cheat at school by using technology? Do they know what they're doing, or don't they care?

Think/Ink and Discuss

3.1.a. Introduction to Rights & Responsibilities

Video: View this introductory YouTube video on "Digital Rights and Responsibilities." 

Essential questions: What do you think is the most important right you have as a digital citizenship? What is the most important responsibility?

Think/Ink and Discuss

3.1.a. Digital Footprint

Video: View this YouTube video, "Digital Footprints - Your New First Impression" to begin to understand your role as a digital citizen.

Essential question: What is a digital footprint? What kind of mark are you leaving?

Think/Ink and Discuss

3.1.a. Digital Footprint: good and bad footsteps

Video: View this YouTube video for younger students from Common Sense Education,  "Follow the Digital Trail".

Essential questions: What are the footsteps? Why is the pink character trying to mop them up?

Think/Ink and Discuss

3.1.a. Digital Footprint

Video: View this YouTube video, "5 Ways to Make a Positive Digital Footprint" 

Essential question: Do you agree with these five things? Can you think of one you would remove? And what would you replace it with?

Think/Ink and Discuss

3.1.a. Digital Footprint

Video: View this YouTube video, "Digital Footprint Campaign." 

Essential question: What is the reason footprints go in and out elevators and walk down hallways? Name three things you leave behind.

Think/Ink and Discuss

3.1.a. Digital Footprint for Younger Students

Video: View this YouTube video, "Follow the Digital Trail" to hear the colorful shape characters explain online dangers.

Essential questions: What is a digital footprint? Name something people do to leave a footprint online. Can it be deleted or fixed?

Think/Ink and Discuss

3.1.c. Online Privacy

Video: Watch this (YouTube) NetSmartz/NS Teens Video on Internet Privacy.

Essential questions: Did this girl have a right to privacy, or was it her responsibility to protect it? Whose fault was it when it was lost: the person blabbing or people who "grab and run?" 

Think/Ink and Discuss

3.1.c. Online Privacy

Video: View this YouTube video, "I have the right to privacy."

Essential question: What responsibilities are learned by the narrator? Compare telling an adult to "snitching."

Think/Ink and Discuss

3.1.c. Online Privacy

Video: View this YouTube video, "Do you really have a private life online?(social network privacy loss due to friends)."

Essential question: Does having an online life mean giving up your private life? Is it possible to keep online privacy and still have lots of online friends? (Hint: What are the kids of things you do and don't post?)

Think/Ink and Discuss

3.1.c. Online Privacy

Web page: Read this Web article from iKeepSafe, "Survey Results Suggest That Kids Care More About Privacy Than We Give Them Credit For."

Essential question: Do you agree that kids care about online privacy? Do you talk to your friends about this? Should you?

Think/Ink and Discuss

3.1.d. Online Reputation

Video: Watch this YouTube video, "How To Protect Your Online Reputation."

Essential questions: Do you care what people think about you in real life? Then why do you think kids are careless about their online reputation? Is your reputation a right or a responsibility?

Think/Ink and Discuss

3.1.d. Protecting Reputations

Video: View the YouTube video: "Protecting Reputations Online in Plain English."

Essential questions: Have you ever heard, "You are defined by your worst deed." People are willing to think the worst of someone, even if it's not true. That's why a good reputation is so important. Does anyone think something bad about you that is not deserved? Do you spread rumors about others? Do you have the right to ruin someone's reputation?

Think / Ink / Discuss