Digital Citizenship and You (Gr. 5-7)

Topics: Digital Citizenship, Social Media

In this activity, participants will discuss the concept of digital citizenship and how the internet can be used to create meaningful and positive contributions to the digital world. Building on these discussions, participants will collaborate to create an idea for an application software (also known as app) that can be used to solve a real-world problem.

This activity is part of a series in the cyber smart education suite available in English and French. Explore Actua’s Cyber Smart Educator Handbook to learn how you can bring cyber smart education into your teaching context.

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Digital Citizenship and You

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