Hi guys, i'm very happy to see that you
have already finished
the first module of our online course.
I'm here to guide you and introduce you
towards the second one
which will deal with the skills you need
to learn in order to become an active
digital citizen.
I'm sure that all of you basically use
social media on our your daily life
and go on the internet pretty often during
the day.
However, it is very much important to
navigate the online world in a critical
and responsible way
and in order to do so you need to learn
a set of skills
which will make you understand how
important your actions are
when you're online.
These actions, in fact,
not only impact you, but can also
have an impact on others and this
impact can be much
bigger than what you think.
So in order
to
understand how to navigate the internet
in a responsible way
you will need to focus on four main
elements which will be the topics
of our four units of this module.
The first one
is your digital identity.
You will learn
in the first unit of this module, how to
build and manage
what is your presentation online.
After that
you will dig into the so-called
Digital footprint which is basically
all the information that you leave
behind when you navigate online and
trust me...
This can be really a lot!
The third unit will focus on the
digital privacy, an incredibly important
element nowadays.
Last but not least you will learn about
the digital information bubbles,
which are critical to understand how you
access
information online, on social media and
on the internet in general.
So how practically you going to learn
about these skills?
So the first
thing that you will need to do is to take
a self evaluation questionnaire
that has two objectives.
The first one will make you reflect
upon the level of the skills that you
think you have
when you go online.
On the other hand you
it will also make you understand the
importance
of these critical skills and why you
need to develop them.
Then, for each units you will have the
possibility to access
plenty of information and learning
materials such as
readings or explicatory videos.
At the end of each unit, you will also
have the possibility to share your
thoughts and what you have learned
with other users through an “online wall”,
which i think
is going to be extremely helpful for you.
Last but not least, at the very end of
the module itself,
as for module 1, you will submit
a self-evaluation
questionnaire.
Let's go!