Digital Literacy and Online Safety Course
Course Overview:
Digital literacy and online safety are essential skills for the 21st century. They enable you to access, evaluate, create, and communicate information using digital technologies. They also help you protect yourself and others from online risks, such as cyberbullying, phishing, identity theft, and misinformation. This class teaches students the core principles of safety while playing online. In today’s digital world, kids need the right skills to prepare them from the negatives of the online world and be empowered with the right resources to report and get help. This engaging class prepares children for participation, socialization, searching and learning using digital technologies. Young learners need to be prepped with these skills to prepare them for future job opportunities. Students will be exposed to important foundation skills, interconnecting skills and transferable skills will be taught in a fun way.
Learning Goals:
- Students will gain a comprehension of the emerging role of big data and how it can be turned into smart data.
- Students will understand and adopt the core principles of safety while online
- Students will know the protocols involved in participating, socializing, and learning using digital tech
- Students will be immersed into the foundational skills, interconnecting and transferable skills needed in the modern technology highway
- Learners will craft and coordinate integrated data capture and analysis activities.
- To understand the key regulatory and ethical aspects of data privacy and handling.
- Students will be trained to quickly identify the online risks of cyberbullying, phishing and more
- Students will know how to carry out basic interpretation to gain actionable insights into business performance and market opportunities.
- To determine appropriate technological tools for data solutions based on cost-benefit analysis
- Students will participate in class quizzes and class projects
- Assessments
Teachers Expertise:
Our tutors and coaches are well vetted, and seasoned with many years of classroom experience teaching kids of different ages and backgrounds. We adopt the easiest ways and methodologies for our learners.
Class projects will bring all the learning home.
Students Supply List:
Students will require a Laptop, good internet connection, headphones, pen and paper. Other needed resources will be shared in class.