Page 25 - digital citizenship

You can read this article and translate it to a point-by-
point syllabus almost verbatim and you’ll have several
successful digital citizenship lessons.

However, they miss a few things that you should talk
about.

First, there’s smartphone security. Ensure your
students know how to lock and change their smartphone
codes or identification patterns.

If they use facial recognition, ensure they don’t post
similar photos of their faces online.

(Yes, this can work. Facial recognition software is
unfortunately imperfect.)

Second, teach students about VPNs. You can read a bit
about VPNs from Privacy Affairs, which provides an
article talking about what VPNs are and how to set them
up.

Basically, VPNs place a protective shell around your
students’ data as it travels throughout the internet. Not
even internet service providers (ISPs) can crack it,