
Explore how real-world and online citizenship intertwine through empathy, integrity, and responsible digital behavior, including managing digital footprints, verifying information, and posting thoughtfully.
Set and respect boundaries in both in-person and online relationships, balance screen time with real-life connections, and practice respectful communication, empathy, and privacy.
Discover how big data's volume, variety, and velocity from social media and online transactions enable targeted marketing and personalized recommendations. Address privacy, data security, and bias in marketing.
Explore how machine learning and algorithms shape feeds and recommendations by analyzing data, identifying patterns, and predicting content across social media, shopping, and entertainment platforms.
Learn to spot fake news by evaluating video credibility, source trustworthiness, and editing cues across platforms like YouTube and Instagram, and cross-check facts and purpose to judge reliability.
Explore how confirmation bias shapes your news feed, how algorithm-driven content creates echo chambers, and how diverse sources, fact-checking, and critical thinking counter misinformation.
Explore the future of the digital world through extended reality, xr, and the metaverse, and learn privacy-conscious ways to interact, learn, work, and create across vr, ar, and mr.
Explore digital careers and the jobs of the future, featuring continuous learning, data analysts and data engineers in big data analytics, and cybersecurity focusing on software threats.
This course contains the use of artificial intelligence. This course is for Digital Citizenship for Advanced Course. This course describes the following:
Digital Citizenship Level 3: Course Introduction
Online Friendships: Staying Safe
Digital Relationships & Boundaries
FOMO & Mental Health Online
Civil Discourse in the Digital World
Hacking: The Good and the Bad
Facial Recognition: Pros & Cons
Big Data & Targeted Marketing
Machine Learning & Your Feed
Spotting Fake News Online
Confirmation Bias Online
Social Media for Good
Building Your Digital Profile
Future of the Digital World
Exploring Digital Careers
Digital Citizenship for Advanced Course is designed to empower students with the skills they need to navigate the digital world confidently and responsibly. This course introduces learners to key concepts of online safety, digital responsibility, and ethical behavior while using technology and the internet.
Students will explore safe online friendships, managing relationships and boundaries, and the impact of social media on mental health, including issues like FOMO. They will also learn how to engage in civil discourse online, spot fake news, and recognize confirmation bias to make informed digital choices. The course covers essential topics like hacking, data privacy, targeted marketing, and the role of algorithms in shaping online experiences.
By understanding new technologies such as facial recognition and big data, students will be able to critically evaluate their benefits and risks. The course also highlights the positive use of social media, building a strong digital profile, and exploring future digital careers.
By the end of this course, Class 8 students will have the knowledge and tools to use technology ethically, stay safe online, and become responsible digital citizens ready for the challenges of the digital age.