Following a site's community guidelines is just one step toward being an excellent digital citizen. After a brief introductory video, small groups come up with their own community guidelines and present their ideas to come up with a class list. Learners then examine YouTube's guidelines and take a look at some images that follow and break the rules.

Concepts

internet safety, the internet, Digital Citizenship

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Additional Tags

Media Literacy, Digital Citizenship, online privacy, online safety, youtube, social studies

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Classroom Considerations

• The presentation in the materials titled Policy - The Community Guidelines is the main resource for this lesson and includes video, image, and other content to review
• Since this lesson was made a couple of years ago, some of the screenshots in the video and lesson may look different than the current interface; the information and overall message remains relevant

Pros

• Comes with plenty of materials to support the procedures
• Overall message is positive and necessary for kids to keep in mind as they use the Internet

Cons

• None