Digital citizenship

In this unit, students are put in the shoes of a web developer and empowered to design and create a web page to meet users' needs (i.e., for mini-project 1: the user is the student, while for the mini-project 2, the user is the school community.)
As students develop the pages and begin to see themselves as web designers, they are encouraged to think critically about the impact of sharing information online and how to be more critical consumers of content.
At the conclusion of mini-project 1 (mp1), students will design their own e-portfolio. For mini-project 2 (mp2): the students will create a webpage where they warn their school community of various potential cyber risks, threats, attacks and how to prevent them.

Mini-Project 1

Introduce yourself! Create an e-portfolio

Duration: 3 weeks

Mini-Project 2

Beware! Cyber-attack!

Duration: 7 weeks

Essential ideas:
- Consider concepts such as digital footprint and intellectual property, when designing web-pages for a purpose.
- Research effectively and include trustworthy information.
- Collaborate effectively, exercise creativity, problem-solving, and organization skills.
- Use technology effectively: wix studio, i-movie (or a software of personal choice).

The students will be able to:
- Design webpages for a purpose (mp1: e-portfolio, mp2: information page)
- Exercise their creativity and learn how to express themselves (e.g., record and edit movie about one cyber-threat)
- Research (mp1: existing web portfolios; mp2: existing cyber threats and social engineering)
- Employ problem solving process to help them determine how they will organize the content of their web pages.
- Mp2: Collaborate with a group to record, edit, and share a video (using i-movie or a video editing software of their choice) on their webpage.
- Provide and receive feedback, reflect on their work, and apply consequent/according changes to their webpages before submission.

Multidisciplinary theme: Design, technologies, computer networks, cybersecurity

Overarching Goals:
- Apply concepts such as digital footprint and intellectual property, when designing web-pages for a purpose.
- Research effectively and include trustworthy information.
- Collaborate effectively, exercise creativity, problem-solving, and organization skills.
- Use technology effectively: wix studio, i-movie (or a software of personal choice).

Guiding questions:
1.How can we choose websites based on the needs of a user?
2.How do we find relevant and trustworthy information on the Internet?
3.How can you make sure that your private information stays private?
4.What kind of rules protect everyone's rights when we use each other's content?
5.How can we add images on our websites, while making sure we respect everyone's rights?
6.How can we style the images and layouts of our pages?
7.How can we work together to fix problems with our websites?
8.How can we work together to make a great team?
9.How can we use feedback to make our websites better?

MP2 Specific questions:
1.What is the importance of cybersecurity to the community? How does Artificial Intelligence affect security and counter-measures in the community? How does the development of AI improve attackers’ techniques?
2.What are different perspectives on cybersecurity that exist in the community? Who is the target for cyber attackers? What are the tangible and intangible assets that we want to protect? In what amount is the community aware of existing cyberthreats?
Would you prefer increased security over personal comfort? Should there be standards and protocols in place?