Digital Citizenship and Digital Literacy

The Digital Citizenship and Digital Literacy Guide helps teachers embed crucial digital citizenship and digital literacy elements across all subjects and year/grade levels. This guide ensures that students from Years/Grades 1 to 13 develop the necessary skills to navigate the digital world intelligently and responsibly, including the use of the Microsoft Office365 suite across all subjects.

Digital Citizenship: Covers a range of age-appropriate topics from online safety and digital etiquette for younger students to digital footprint management, ethical online behaviour and online safety, and critical evaluation of digital content for older students. High school students focus on digital rights, responsibilities, advanced cybersecurity practices, and the societal impact of digital technologies.

Digital Literacy: Emphasizes the intelligent and responsible use of digital tools and platforms, recognising and avoiding phishing scams, understanding strong passwords, and respecting intellectual property. The guide requires teachers to integrate skills in the use of TEAMs for collaboration, Outlook Word and PowerPoint for communication, and Excel for numeracy and analysis.

The guide includes both the YCYW philosophy for digital engagement as well as the practical implementation through subjects and year/grade levels.

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Link to the Digital Citizenship and Digital Literacy Guide

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