Course Description
The Digital Citizenship and Safety course has been designed to provide students with essential information and vital resources to learn how to be safe users of the internet. Through the course students will develop and expand their levels of knowledge, understanding and skills to maintain safe and ethical online social and academic behaviors. Students will determine how their online activities and habits work to create their current digital profiles and future digital footprints. Students will learn how to apply new rules and best practice strategies to self assess and monitor their own online practices. Safeguard protocols and resources will be made readily available to ensure students the capacity not only to create legal, ethical and moral responsibilities, but the ability to more efficiently protect their personal identity, intellectual property rights, and hardware and network security risks as well. This course is designed as a quarter-length course and is divided into three units.