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Curriculum links

Digital citizenship

This resource can be used as part of a whole-school digital citizenship program and is designed to support the material in the document Citizenship domains (.pdf 349kB).

Digital Footprint

  • Identifying inappropriate or offensive content

Digital Conduct

  • The concepts of ethical, responsible and respectful online use

  • Positive online conduct and codes of practice

  • ‘Netspeak’ and ‘netiquette’ interacting properly with online contacts e.g. courteous email forwarding and thinking before posting

Digital Relationships

  • Privacy settings and identity protection. When and how to restrict access or limit personal information about self and others

  • Selecting photos and developing appropriate online profiles that do not reveal too much. Understanding that caching and the ability to store and forward means there is no such thing as delete in an online world.

  • Recognition of the risks of social networking, that there is no guarantee that a person online is who they say they are, recognising grooming or luring tactics, cyber stalking, unwanted contact and how to report abuse.

Subject specific content

The resource can also be used with the following syllabus:

Students learn about:

3.11 S4 etiquette and ethical behaviour and internet use

3.9 S5 the nature and scope and ethical use of information and communication technologies in contemporary society.

Students learn to:

6.5 S5 experiment with ways of representing the real world imaginatively

Extract from English Years 7 – 10 syllabus, October 2002, © Board of Studies, NSW.