Cyber Smart Students are responsible online citizens, understand digital media and recognise site intentions.
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Being a responsible digital citizen...
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Being Responsible
Online
(Middle)
The student has...
  • not been responsible online (generic responsibility).
Rings of Responsibility

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Students sit in the circles of “Rings of Responsibility,” in
order to explore the responsibilities they have to
themselves, friends and family, and larger communities, both offline and online.

Digital Citizenship -
Being Part of a Community
(Middle / Senior)
The student has...
  • not been been a responsible and respectful online citizen.
Digital Citizenship Pledge

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Students collaborate in creating a digital citizenship
pledge and motto.
Students create a
pledge, like a class
treaty, for being digital citizens.
Digital Citizenship
(Middle / Senior)
The student has...
  • not been been a responsible and respectful online citizen.
Super Digital Citizen

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Students create digital superheroes who are able to
solve digital dilemmas in a responsible way.
Students use an online
programme or pen/paper
to create an online
superhero and comic strip.
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Media and Marketing...
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Websites selling / marketing products
(Middle)
The student...
  • is unaware or websites being used to sell / market products.
Things for sale

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Students explore product sites, identifying elements designed
to draw attention and make them want to buy the product.
Students then use what they have learned to draw a home page for a product site of their own invention.

Digitally Altered
Photos and Images
(Middle / Senior)
The student...
  • is not aware that photos in magazines etc can be digitally altered.
Picture Perfect

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Dove Campaign for Real Beauty Video
Students discuss how photo alteration can be both
creative and deceptive. They watch a short video that
shows the evolution of a makeup-free model into a digitally
enhanced billboard ad. They analyse the messages on two
magazine covers featuring digitally altered photographs.
A great video
to show
how photos can
be altered digitally.
Stereotypes
(Middle / Senior)
The student...
  • does not understand that companies target stereotypes when marketing.
Selling Stereotypes

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Video - Riley on Marketing
Students watch and discuss a video of a little girl
questioning why companies market boys’ and girls’
toys differently. Then they compare and contrast
gender stereotypes.


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Living a digital Life...
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Digital Media
(Middle / Senior)
The student...
  • does not understand the place of digital media in today's society.
Digital Life 101

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Video on Digital Life
Students watch a video which shows the 24/7,
social nature of digital media. They then make
similes about their digital lives.

Time spent using
digital media
(Middle / Senior)
The student...
  • spends too much time using digital media.
My Media
Students log the time they spend with different
forms of digital media and create a My Media Bar Graph.