Embedded Files
Chapter 4:
ISTE Standard: Digital Citizen
ISTE Standard: Digital Citizen
This chapter was inspired by the ISTE Digital Citizen standard.
Take a look at the videos below to see this standard in action in real world classroom settings!
Resources for Learning Plan 4.1: Copyright, Fair Use, and AI
Resources for Learning Plan 4.1: Copyright, Fair Use, and AI
U.S. Copyright
U.S. Copyright Law Book (Title 17). U.S. Copyright Office (December 2024).
Fair Use Doctrine. U.S. Copyright Office.
Report on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence. U.S. Copyright Office (2024, 2025).
Copyright Act of 1790. Kevin R. Davis. Free Speech Center, Middle Tennessee State University, 2025.
Court Cases - Copyright Law and GenAI Technologies
Case Tracker: Artificial Intelligence, Copyrights and Class Actions. BakerHostetler.
Insights from Court Orders in AI Copyright Infringement Cases. Copyright Alliance (December 12, 2024).
AI Code of Ethics
The ethics of AI in software development: what developers need to know. Merge (May 31, 2023).
Code of Ethical Principles in the use of Artificial Intelligence. World Employment Confederation.
Resources for Learning Plan 4.2: Privacy, Please
Resources for Learning Plan 4.2: Privacy, Please
State Privacy Laws
Privacy & Data
Reading Privacy Policies
- Gemini AI-Generated Privacy Policy Demystifier. (NOTE: You need to login to Gemini with a gmail account to use this tool).
Visualizing the Length of the Fine Print, for 14 Popular Apps. Visual Capitalist.
How to read privacy policies like a lawyer (YouTube Video).
The U.S. Constitution & Privacy
Activity Guide: Amending the Constitution. National Constitution Center (2025).
Zone of Privacy Supreme Court decision: Griswold v. Connecticut (1965). Bill of Rights Institute.
Resources for Learning Plan 4.3: Truth, Lies and GenAI in Political Campaigns
Resources for Learning Plan 4.3: Truth, Lies and GenAI in Political Campaigns
Political Positions & Candidates in the U.S.
How Many Politicians Are There in the USA? PoliEngine (2024).
Legislator Lookup. A National Network for Youth tool to find your Senate and House representatives.
Who Represents Me. Ballotpedia's tool for finding current representatives (NOTE: You do not need to put your email address in to press "continue" and get a response).
AI in Elections and Campaigns
Generative AI in Political Advertising. Brennan Center for Justice.
The Use of AI by Election Campaigns. LSE Public Policy Review.
AI as Campaign Assistant.
AI as Campaign Volunteer.
AI as Persuader.
Artificial Intelligence in Elections and Campaigns. National Council of State Legislatures (June, 2025).
Candidate AI: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Elections. Emory University.
How AI Is Changing Political Campaigns. Information Week.
Can Artificial Intelligence (AI) Influence Elections? United Nations Regional Information Centre for Western Europe (July, 2024).
A.I. is Starting to Wear Down Democracy. Steven Lee Myers & Stuart A. Thompson. The New York Times, June 26, 2025.
A.I. was used in 80 percent of elections worldwide in 2024.
Designing a Political Campaign
Designing a successful Political Campaign using Design Thinking and Data. Medium.
The Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials: 1952 - 2024. Museum of the Moving Image.
Create Your Own Campaign Ad! PBS Newshour Classroom.
Political Propaganda: Icons, Slogans, and Imagery in Presidential Elections: 1789 to Present. Harry S. Truman Library and Museum.
Fact Checking
Fact Check Tools. Google.
According to Google, "this tool allows you to easily browse and search for fact checks. For example, you can search for a politician's statement, or for a topic. You can also restrict results to a specific publisher."
Resources for Learning Plan 4.4: Acting as Critical Digital Citizens with AI
Resources for Learning Plan 4.4: Acting as Critical Digital Citizens with AI
Critical Digital Citizenship. Civics of Technology.
Critical Questions about Technology. Civics of Technology.
Conducting a Technoethical Audit of ChatGPT. Civics of Technology blog.
AI Ethics & Policy News, spreadsheet of news articles curated by Casey Fiesler.
Teacher and Student Guide to Analyzing GenAI Tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot).
Chapter 2: A GenAI Guide for Teachers (Resources for exploring the ethics of GenAI).
AI and Ethics: What School Leaders Need to Know. Educational Leadership, 82(5), 30-35.
Democratizing Learning with Digital Choice Boards. Torrey Trust & Robert W. Maloy. College of Education Magazine (2023, Spring).
Example AI-Generated Choice Board to Encourage Critical Digital Citizenship:
 | Evaluate whose data is most at risk (e.g., low-income students using free AI tools) and how surveillance reinforces inequality. | Analyze cases where marginalized communities are disproportionately harmed by data misuse and propose systemic safeguards. | | **Bias** | Create a remix or counter-narrative (e.g., digital art, spoken word, meme series) that resists biased AI stereotypes about race, gender, or disability. [Algorithmic Justice League](https://www.ajl.org/) | Evaluate GenAI outputs for bias against targeted groups (e.g., gendered job predictions, racialized image generations) and propose equitable corrections. | Analyze historical inequalities that bias reflects (e.g., racism in training data) and connect them to systemic oppression. | | **AI-Generated Feedback & Grading** | Co-design a grading alternative (peer + community feedback circles) that resists technocratic control of student learning. [Critical Digital Pedagogy journal](https://hybridpedagogy.org/) | Evaluate whether AI grading practices replicate inequities in standardized testing for historically marginalized groups. | Analyze the power dynamic of teacher vs. AI vs. student voice—who gets silenced or centered in learning assessment? | | **Hallucinations** | Create a youth “fact-checker collective” that teaches communities how to resist AI misinformation. [MediaSmarts: fact-checking for youth](https://mediasmarts.ca/) | Evaluate how hallucinations can reinforce dominant narratives while erasing marginalized histories or knowledge. | Analyze cases where hallucinations disproportionately harm targeted groups (e.g., false legal precedents or fake activist quotes). | | **Academic Integrity** | Draft a student bill of rights on ethical AI use that resists punitive surveillance and promotes learning equity. [Student Voice resources](https://studentvoice.org/) | Evaluate university policies for whether they criminalize students (esp. first-gen/ELL) instead of supporting them. | Analyze how “academic integrity” discourse can maintain systems of elitism and exclusion, and propose justice-oriented alternatives. | | **Copyright & IP Rights** | Create an “equitable remix” art project that foregrounds voices from marginalized communities often excluded from copyright regimes. [Creative Commons](https://creativecommons.org/) | Evaluate whether copyright law protects corporations more than creators, especially BIPOC artists and musicians. | Analyze whose intellectual labor is invisibilized in AI datasets and how communities can reclaim authorship. | | **Exploitation of Human Labor** | Create a podcast amplifying the voices of workers who label toxic data or moderate violent AI content. [Rest of World on AI labor](https://restofworld.org/2021/artificial-intelligence-labeling-kenya/) | Evaluate how invisible labor behind GenAI reproduces global inequality (e.g., workers in the Global South). | Analyze narratives of “innovation” that mask exploitation, and connect to broader patterns of labor injustice. | | **Environmental Impact** | Design a youth climate justice infographic that links AI energy consumption to frontline community impacts. [Climate TRACE](https://climatetrace.org/) | Evaluate which communities bear the brunt of environmental harms from AI infrastructure (e.g., water use near data centers). | Analyze trade-offs between AI expansion and climate justice—who benefits and who is harmed? | | **Spreading Misinformation** | Create a digital literacy toolkit (infographics, memes, TikTok explainers) teaching peers how to resist AI-driven disinformation campaigns. [News Literacy Project](https://newslit.org/) | Evaluate how misinformation disproportionately targets and harms marginalized groups (e.g., election misinformation in communities of color). | Analyze historical disinformation campaigns and how AI accelerates them today. | | **AI Digital Divide** | Develop a youth hackathon project that increases access to ethical AI tools for under-resourced schools. [Digital Equity Now](https://digitalequity.us/) | Evaluate barriers to GenAI access (language, cost, infrastructure) for targeted groups and propose justice-oriented solutions. | Analyze how corporate control of GenAI deepens divides, and explore grassroots/community-driven alternatives. |](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/sitesv/AAzXCkcKdRUg4ibcX2_031OEZAnluza2isPgllzF6haPZCs-rTQ6YXNhb7NABY0npiD1Y-j0VWUCyPxVJdM9Vqfc29iApdnmOlBhe8Arlz8kZhQZhbMTmkN0UW1OaY5kaz_nxTVflrxIqjfqQTJbLk7Va-6vpcMgX_84ZZejN0diianecTTbJB5g4zNIaz6HFWfPf8Yxow_2oyw2EObP7wbG1ASJMSL0ALt7ZER06-E=w1280)
Choice board generated with the following prompt:
"Create a digital choice board in the format of a table that provides me with multimodal ways to examine the ethical issues related to GenAI technologies, including Data & Privacy, Bias, AI-Generated Feedback & Grading, Hallucinations, Academic Integrity, Copyright & Intellectual Property Rights, Exploitation of Human Labor, Environmental Impact, Spreading Misinformation, and the AI Digital Divide. Include links to external resources in each box. Also, incorporate activities at the highest levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy. Make sure each activity incorporates critical digital citizenship (What is Critical Digital Citizenship? The assumptions and prejudices of people and groups are often intertwined with inequalities in societies. Digital citizenship, therefore, must be inspired by civic resistance that challenge the systems that maintain power and inequality. Critical digital citizenship offers youth powerful ways to confront oppression and use digital media to express their politics and promote civic engagement. Youth should have opportunities to challenge inequality, learn from the perspectives or minoritized or targeted groups, and take tangible steps toward reducing inequality and injustice. Critical digital citizenship curricula becomes a means for educators and students to use, and interrogate, technology in order to effect systemic change. Based in critical pedagogy, the Young People's Race, Power, and Technology (YPRPT) project is an example of youth civic expression, one that can help educators and scholars reconsider how critical digital citizenship can move toward a more just world.)"
Additional Learning Plans
Additional Learning Plans
Bonus Learning Plan: Should GenAI Tools Simulate Conversations with Historical Figures?
Page updated
Google Sites
Report abuse