Standards - Digital Literacy & Computer Science

DLCS18.1.7

Recognize that a person has a digital identity.

Unpacked Content

Knowledge

Students know:
  • what they say and do on the internet or a collaborative digital environment is permanent.
  • what they say and do on the internet or a collaborative digital environment is part of their identity.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • tell that the way in which they behave, work, and play in a collaborative environment such as an online game and/or learning environment is a part of their identity.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • their behavior, words, and actions in an online collaborative environment is a part of their identity.

Vocabulary

  • identity
  • digital
  • permanent

DLCS18.2.7

List positive and negative impacts of digital communication.

COS Examples

Example: Anything posted or communicated electronically may be easily reproduced and could remain a positive or negative part of your digital identity/footprint.

Unpacked Content

Knowledge

Students know:
  • everything they put in a digital environment may always accessible, even if they delete it.
  • behavior and artifacts created in a digital environment can reflect positively or negatively on the student.
  • digital communication helps you communicate and collaborate with people furthur away, faster, and easier.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • list positive impacts of digital communication.
  • list negative impacts of digital communication.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • all things that I do in a digital environment, whether positive and/or negative, can be recorded, reproduced, and may become part of my digital identity forever.

Vocabulary

  • identity
  • positive
  • negative
  • artifact

DLCS18.4.10

Identify the different forms of web advertising and why websites, digital resources, and artifacts may include advertisements and collect personal information.

COS Examples

Examples: Search ads, pay-per-click ads, banner ads, targeted ads, in-game ads, email ads.

Unpacked Content

Knowledge

Students know:
  • advertisements appear on most websites and other digital resources such as email, text, etc.
  • information is collected by companies, search habits, cookies, etc.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • identify ads on a website, within a sample email, in games, and email.
  • identify ways a company or website collects personal information.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • ads are on most websites, digital resources, and artifacts.
  • websites or companies collect information by tracking browsing history, collecting user
  • shared data, or by using cookies.

Vocabulary

  • web advertising
  • advertisements/ads
  • personal information
  • user
  • cookies

DLCS18.5.12

Explain the different forms of web advertising and why websites, digital resources, and artifacts may include advertisements that may collect personal information.

COS Examples

Examples: personalized web experiences based on tailored web searches, maintaining search history, quicker access to relevant information.

Unpacked Content

Knowledge

Students know:
  • how to spot different forms of web advertising.
  • why websites, digital resources, and artifacts may include advertisements that may collect personal information.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • identify different forms of web advertisings using samples or live examples.
  • explain how a company or website collects personal information and using the information.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • advertisements are on most websites, digital resources, and artifacts.
  • websites or companies customize web experiences by collecting users' information or by tracking browsing history using cookies.

Vocabulary

  • web advertising
  • advertisements/ads
  • personal information
  • user
  • cookies
  • browsing history

DLCS18.6.13

Define personal privacy, digital footprint, and open communication.

Unpacked Content

Knowledge

Students know:
  • that personal information can be divided into the three categories of personal privacy, digital footprint, open communication.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • define personal privacy.
  • define digital footprint.
  • define open communication.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • information is either, personal, part of your digital footprint, or available as open communication.

Vocabulary

  • personal privacy
  • digital footprint
  • open communication

DLCS18.7.12

Discuss the impact of data permanence on digital identity including best practices to protect personal digital footprint.

Unpacked Content

Knowledge

Students know:
  • that data posted to the internet can be difficult to remove and can impact how others view you.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • identify ways to protect their personal digital footprint.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • data posted online can be difficult to remove and can impact a personal digital footprint.

Vocabulary

  • data permanence
  • digital footprint

DLCS18.8.12

Cite evidence of the positive and negative effects of data permanence on personal and professional digital identity.

Unpacked Content

Knowledge

Students know:
  • that people are often judged on behavior, both offline and online.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • identify postings that may be unbecoming to self or others.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • consequences exist for every choice one makes
  • good and bad.
  • some choices can have lasting impacts.

Vocabulary

  • data permanence
  • digital identity

DLCS18.HS.19

Prove that digital identity is a reflection of persistent, publicly available artifacts.

Unpacked Content

Knowledge

Students know:
  • what data can be found about a person on the internet.
  • people can judge a person based on the Internet postings attached to his/her digital identity.
  • inappropriate postings can have lasting consequences.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • research implications of irresponsible digital postings.
  • correlate online postings to one's digital identity.
  • argue that digital identity is a reflection of online content that is tied to a person.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • school personnel, people, and future employers may judge you based on online content before ever meeting you in person.
  • it is important to be proactive about what data is available online.

Vocabulary

  • digital identity

DLCS18.HS.20

Evaluate strategies to manage digital identity and reputation with awareness of the permanent impact of actions in a digital world.

Unpacked Content

Knowledge

Students know:
  • that often individuals are judged by their publicly visible online presence prior to meeting people in person.
  • that strategies exist to manage what is publicly posted online about you.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • identify both positive and negative posts online.
  • identify consequences associated with negative online posting.
  • manage their digital identity and minimize negative repercussions.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • data posted online may not remain private.
  • all data shared online will have some impact on one's digital identity.
  • one must be mindful of the data attached to one's digital identity.

Vocabulary

  • digital identity
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