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7. Securing Digital Devices

The final element of becoming a good digital citizen is
securing digital devices.

This is the perfect capstone to your digital citizenship
curriculum because it takes everything students have
learned and applies it to real-life scenarios.

You’ve shown students how the importance of empathy.
You’ve shown them how the internet works. You’ve
even shown them why they need to use digital devices in
moderation.

What’s left in this equation? Well, students need to know
how they can secure their computers, smartphones, and
more.

You could fill an entire semester just talking about
network security — which some schools do. So how do
you teach this?

How Do You Teach Digital Device Security?

The Tech Edvocate has a great how-to article on the
ways you can teach digital security to K-12 students.