Digital Literacy Instructional Guide

○​ Digital wellness is the preventive measures aimed at regulating and improving the healthy use of technology. ○​ Identify measures to achieve personal digital wellness. ■​ Create boundaries (e.g., set limits for certain apps and sites, time limits, and limit notifications) ■​ Try single-tasking (e.g., to improve focus, try to reduce the number of screens around. ■​ Limit the use of digital devices as much as possible each day. ○​ Identify ways to balance personal wellness and technology. ■​ Spend time connecting with family and friends offline each day. ■​ Exercise regularly and enjoy time outside. ■​ Eat healthy food, get plenty of sleep, and don’t take tech to bed with you. ○​ Recognize how algorithms limit viewpoints; determine what content is directed to the user; and manipulate online activity to reinforce behavior, use, and dependency on technology. ○​ Learn how to discern what is real and what is not (e.g. Artificial Intelligence (AI) generated content (deepfake); filters, photos, and video alterations, etc.) ○​ Cyberbullying is the use of electronic communication to bully a person, typically by sending messages of an intimidating, embarrassing, or threatening nature. ○​ Identify strategies to deal with cyberbullying. ■​ Report cyberbullying to a parent or trusted adult. ■​ Do not respond to and do not forward cyberbullying messages. ■​ Screenshot evidence of cyberbullying. ■​ Block the person who is cyberbullying. ○​ Identify the consequences of cyberbullying for the perpetrator and the victim. ■​ Perpetrator ●​ Criminal record

●​ Internet or app restrictions ●​ Negative digital footprint ●​ School discipline

■​ Victim

●​ Anxiety/Depression ●​ Changes in appetite ●​ Stress of being in a constant state of fear ●​ Change in school performance

End of Unit Competency

●​ I can explain digital citizenship.

●​ I can explain and define what a good digital footprint means.

●​ I can explain online safety, digital security, and online privacy.

●​ I can identify and describe the intellectual property.

●​ I can explain what my legal and ethical responsibilities to the digital world are.

●​ I can explain how to improve personal digital wellness .