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Curriculum for ages 7-9

Course series
  • Friends, feelings, and tech: The online world can bring out some big emotions. Students explore their emotional responses to digital scenarios and practice making connections between how their body feels and the emotions they are experiencing.
  • Making tough decisions: Sometimes online situations can be tricky. Students evaluate digital challenges and practice safe decision-making through gameplay. They will consider actions that promote positive outcomes and practice strategies to build resilience.
  • Road to resilience: Developing digital resilience helps students deal positively with the challenges of the online world. Students explore the concept of resilience through an online game and practice applying strategies to promote resilience in different digital situations.

 

Australia 

Curriculum Yr 3

English

Understand that cooperation with others depends on shared understanding of social conventions, including turn-taking language, which vary according to the degree of formality (AC9E3LA01).

Health and Physical Education

Investigate how success, challenge, setbacks and failure strengthen resilience and identities in a range of contexts (AC9HP4P01).

Select, use and refine personal and social skills to establish, manage and strengthen relationships (AC9HP4P04).

Describe and apply protective behaviors and help-seeking strategies in a range of online and offline situations (AC9HP4P08).

Digital Technologies

Explain how student solutions and existing information systems meet common personal, school or community needs (ACTDIP012).

Plan, create and communicate ideas and information independently and with others, applying agreed ethical and social protocols (ACTDIP013).

General Capabilities

ICT Capability
Identify the impacts of ICT in society | Understand computer mediated communications.

Personal and Social Capability
Become confident resilient and adaptable | Negotiate and resolve conflict | Express emotions appropriately

 

United Kingdom

Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education

Respectful Relationships

Practical steps they can take in a range of different contexts to improve or support respectful Relationships.

Online Relationships

The rules and principles for keeping safe online, how to recognize risks, harmful content and contact, and how to report them.

Being Safe

That each person’s body belongs to them, and the differences between appropriate and inappropriate or unsafe physical, and other contact.

How to report concerns or abuse, and the vocabulary and confidence needed to do so.

Computing

Use technology safely, respectfully and responsibly; recognize acceptable or unacceptable behavior; identify a range of ways to report concerns about content and contact.

Education for a Connected World

Self-image and identity: I can describe positive ways for someone to interact with others online and understand how this will positively impact on how others perceive them.

Online relationships: I can give examples of how to be respectful to others online and describe how to recognize healthy and unhealthy online behaviors.

 

New Zealand

Curriculum Levels 1 & 2

Key competencies

  • Thinking
  • Using language, symbols, and texts
  • Relating to others
  • Managing self

English

Select and use sources of information, processes, and strategies with some confidence to identify, form, and express ideas.

Purposes and audiences: Show some understanding of how texts are shaped for different purposes and audiences.

Ideas: Show some understanding of ideas within, across, and beyond texts.

Language features: Show some understanding of how language features are used for effect within and across texts.

Health and Physical Education

A3 Safety management
Identify risk and use safe practices in a range of contexts.

A4 Personal identity
Identify personal qualities that contribute to a sense of self-worth.

C1 Relationships
Identify and demonstrate ways of maintaining and enhancing relationships between individuals and within groups.

C2 Identity, sensitivity, and respect
Describe how individuals and groups share characteristics and are also unique.

D1 Societal attitudes and values
Explore how people’s attitudes, values, and actions contribute to healthy physical and social environments.

 

United States

ISTE Standards

ISTE Standards

1.2 Digital Citizen

Students recognize the rights, responsibilities and opportunities of living, learning and working in an interconnected digital world, and they act and model in ways that are safe, legal and ethical.

Students engage in positive, safe, legal and ethical behavior when using technology, including social interactions online or when using networked devices (1.2.b).

Students manage their personal data to maintain digital privacy and security and are aware of data-collection technology used to track their navigation online (1.2.d).

 

Curriculum for ages 9-10

Course series
  • Guess who? Dealing with strangers online can be tricky. Students explore how people may present themselves differently in the digital world by evaluating a range of online personas and applying strategies to help determine their authenticity.

  • Connect with respect: Being a conscientious online communicator is a fundamental skill for digital citizens. Students explore the concept of respectful online communication and evaluate how their online treatment of others impacts their enjoyment of digital spaces.

  • Online issues without the tissues: Bullies, trolls, and scammers are some of the nastier characters that can lurk behind a screen. Students explore the characteristics of healthy and unhealthy online friendships and develop help-seeking strategies to combat a range of problematic online characters.

 

Australia 

Curriculum Yr 4

English

Explore language used to develop relationships in formal and informal situations (AC9E4LA01).

Health and Physical Education

Investigate how success, challenge, setbacks and failure strengthen resilience and identities in a range of contexts (AC9HP4P01).

Select, use and refine personal and social skills to establish, manage and strengthen relationships (AC9HP4P04).

Describe how valuing diversity influences wellbeing and identify actions that promote inclusion in their communities (AC9HP4P05).

Describe and apply protective behaviors and help-seeking strategies in a range of online and offline situations (AC9HP4P08).

Digital Technologies

Explain how student solutions and existing information systems meet common personal, school or community needs (ACTDIP012).

Plan, create and communicate ideas and information independently and with others, applying agreed ethical and social protocols (ACTDIP013).

General Capabilities

ICT Capability
Select and evaluate data and information | Understand computer mediated communications.

Personal and Social Capability
Develop reflective practice | Become confident resilient and adaptable | Appreciate diverse perspectives | Negotiate and resolve conflict.

 

United Kingdom

Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education

Caring Friendships

How to recognise who to trust and who not to trust, how to judge when a friendship is making them feel unhappy or uncomfortable, managing conflict, how to manage these situations and how to seek help or advice from others, if needed.

Respectful Relationships

The importance of respecting others, even when they are very different from them (for example, physically, in character, personality or backgrounds), or make different choices or have different preferences or beliefs.

How to critically consider their online friendships and sources of information including awareness of the risks associated with people they have never met.

Computing

Use technology safely, respectfully and responsibly; recognize acceptable or unacceptable behavior; identify a range of ways to report concerns about content and contact.

Education for a Connected World

Online relationships: I can explain that there are some people I communicate with online who may want to do me or my friends harm. I can recognize that this is not my / our fault.

I can explain what it means to ‘know someone’ online and why this might be different from knowing someone offline

 

New Zealand

Curriculum Levels 2 & 3

Key competencies

  • Thinking
  • Using language, symbols, and texts
  • Relating to others
  • Managing self

English

Understanding of how language features are used for effect within and across texts.

Purposes and audiences: Show a developing understanding of how to shape texts for different purposes and audiences.

Ideas: Select, form, and communicate ideas on a range of topics.

Health and Physical Education

A1 Personal growth and development

Identify factors that affect personal, physical, social, and emotional growth and develop skills to manage changes.

A3 Safety management

Identify risks and their causes and describe safe practices to manage these.

A4 Personal identity

Describe how their own feelings, beliefs, and actions, and those of other people, contribute to their personal sense of self-worth.

C1 Relationships

Identify and compare ways of establishing relationships and managing changing relationships.

C2 Identity, sensitivity, and respect

Identify ways in which people discriminate and ways to act responsibly to support themselves and other people.

C3 Interpersonal skills

Identify the pressures that can influence interactions with other people and demonstrate basic assertiveness strategies to manage these.

 

United States

ISTE Standards

ISTE Standards
1.2 Digital Citizen

Students recognize the rights, responsibilities and opportunities of living, learning and working in an

interconnected digital world, and they act and model in ways that are safe, legal and ethical.

Students engage in positive, safe, legal and ethical behavior when using technology, including social

interactions online or when using networked devices. (1.2.b).

Students manage their personal data to maintain digital privacy and security and are aware of data collection technology used to track their navigation online (1.2.d).

 

Curriculum for ages 10-11

Course series
  • Squad goals and digital roles: Navigating friendship drama is challenging, especially when it’s playing out online. Students investigate an online friendship breakdown mystery and explore communication and conflict resolution strategies to help get things back on track.

  • Building boundaries: The ability to assert clear boundaries is an essential skill in the online world. Students will explore how asserting personal boundaries may be helpful in different digital scenarios by considering various ways of articulating boundaries and practicing respecting the boundaries of others.

  • Navigating digital disputes: Recognising the early signs of conflict and applying effective de-escalation techniques can help prevent unnecessary stress and anxiety. Students will practice showing empathy across various digital disagreements by exploring respectful conflict resolution strategies and considering additional help-seeking methods when things get tough.

 

Australia 

Curriculum Yr 5

English

Understand that language is selected for social contexts and that it helps to signal social roles and relationships (AC9E5LA01).

Health and Physical Education

Explain how identities can be influenced by people and places, and how we can create positive
self-identities (AC9HP6P01).

Describe and demonstrate how respect and empathy can be expressed to positively influence relationships (AC9HP6P04).

Describe strategies for seeking, giving or denying consent and rehearse how to communicate their intentions effectively and respectfully (AC9HP6P07).

Analyse and rehearse protective behaviors and help-seeking strategies that can be used in a range of online and offline situations (AC9HP6P08).

Digital Technologies

Plan, create and communicate ideas and information, including collaboratively online, applying agreed ethical, social and technical protocols (ACTDIP022).

General Capabilities

ICT Capability
Collaborate share and exchange | Understand computer mediated | Communications

Personal and Social Capability

Recognize emotions | Develop reflective practice | Make decisions | Become confident resilient and adaptable

Ethical capability

Consider consequences | Examine values | Explore rights and responsibilities | Consider points of view

 

United Kingdom

Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education

Caring Friendships

The characteristics of friendships, including mutual respect, truthfulness, trustworthiness, loyalty, kindness, generosity, trust, sharing interests and experiences and support with problems and difficulties.

That most friendships have ups and downs, and that these can often be worked through so that

the friendship is repaired or even strengthened, and that resorting to violence is never right.

Respectful Relationships

Learning about different types of bullying (including cyberbullying), the impact of bullying, responsibilities of bystanders (primarily reporting bullying to an adult) and how to get help.

Being Safe

What sorts of boundaries are appropriate in friendships with peers and others (including in a

digital context).

Computing

Use technology safely, respectfully and responsibly; recognize acceptable or unacceptable behavior; identify a range of ways to report concerns about content and contact.

Education for a Connected World

Online relationships: I can give examples of how to be respectful to others online and describe

how to recognize healthy and unhealthy online behaviors.

 

New Zealand

Curriculum Levels 2 & 3

Key competencies

  • Thinking
  • Using language, symbols, and texts
  • Relating to others
  • Managing self

A1 Personal growth and development

Identify factors that affect personal, physical, social, and emotional growth and develop skills to manage changes.

A3 Safety management

Identify risks and their causes describe safe practices to manage these.

A4 Personal identity

Describe how their own feelings, beliefs, and actions, and those of other people, contribute to their personal sense of self-worth.

C1 Relationships

Identify and compare ways of establishing relationships and managing changing relationships.

C2 Identity, sensitivity, and respect

Identify ways in which people discriminate and ways to act responsibly to support themselves and other people.

C3 Interpersonal skills

Identify the pressures that can influence interactions with other people and demonstrate basic assertiveness strategies to manage these.

 

United States

ISTE Standards

ISTE Standards
1.2 Digital Citizen

Students recognize the rights, responsibilities and opportunities of living, learning and working in an interconnected digital world, and they act and model in ways that are safe, legal and ethical.

Students cultivate and manage their digital identity and reputation and are aware of the permanence of their actions in the digital world (1.2.a).

Students engage in positive, safe, legal and ethical behavior when using technology, including social interactions online or when using networked devices (1.2.b).

 

Curriculum for ages 11-13

Course series
  • Stepping into the online world: A student's digital footprint can impact how the world perceives them. Students explore the relationship between their digital footprint and online reputation by learning about data inputs and critically evaluating how the content they put out to the world could be perceived.

  • Cookies and curation: Understanding how data collection influences online experiences allows students to navigate digital spaces with an informed, critical mindset. Students will explore how their data is collected and used to shape online content by considering different data privacy perspectives.

  • Truth vs. clickbait: Determining fact from fiction can be challenging in a digital world filled with clickbait and misinformation. Students engage in role-playing exercises to develop media literacy skills and a better understanding of the tactics often used by manipulators to persuade and influence others.

 

Australia 

Curriculum Yr 6

English

Understand the uses of objective and subjective language, and identify bias (AC9E6LA02).

Health and Physical Education

Analyse and rehearse protective behaviors and help-seeking strategies that can be used in a range of online and offline situations (AC9HP6P08).

Digital Technologies

Examine the main components of common digital systems and how they may connect together to form networks to transmit data (ACTDIK014).

Plan, create and communicate ideas and information, including collaboratively online, applying

agreed ethical, social and technical protocols (ACTDIP022).

General Capabilities

ICT Capability
Apply digital information security practices | Apply personal security protocols | Define and plan information searches |Select and evaluate data and information

Personal and Social Capability

Develop reflective practice | Appreciate diverse perspectives | Make decisions

Ethical capability

Reason and make ethical decisions | Consider consequences

 

United Kingdom

Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education

Online Relationships

People sometimes behave differently online, including by pretending to be someone they are not.

The rules and principles for keeping safe online, how to recognize risks, harmful content and contact, and how to report them.

How to critically consider their online friendships and sources of information including awareness of the risks associated with people they have never met.

How information and data is shared and used online.

English (Upper KS2)

Reading - Comprehension

Distinguish between statements of fact and opinion.

Technology

Use technology safely, respectfully and responsibly; recognize acceptable or unacceptable behavior; identify a range of ways to report concerns about content and contact.

Education for a Connected World

Online reputation: I can describe ways that information about anyone online can be used by others to make judgments about an individual and why these may be incorrect.

I can explain the ways in which anyone can develop a positive online reputation.

 

New Zealand

Curriculum Levels 3 & 4

Key competencies

  • Thinking
  • Using language, symbols, and texts
  • Relating to others
  • Managing self

English

Purposes and Audience: Show an increasing understanding of how texts are shaped for different purposes and audiences.

Ideas: Show an increasing understanding of ideas within, across, and beyond texts.

Language Features: Show an increasing understanding of how language features are used for effect within and across texts.

Health and Physical Education
A3 Safety management
Access and use information to make and action safe choices in a range of contexts.

A4 Personal identity
Describe how social messages and stereotypes, including those in the media, can affect feelings of self-worth.

C2 Identity, sensitivity, and respect
Recognise instances of discrimination and act responsibly to support their own rights and feelings and those of other people.

C3 Interpersonal skills
Describe and demonstrate a range of assertive communication skills and processes that enable them to interact appropriately with other people.

 

United States

ISTE Standard

ISTE Standards

1.2 Digital Citizen Students
Recognize the rights, responsibilities and opportunities of living, learning and working in an interconnected digital world, and they act and model in ways that are safe, legal and ethical. 

Students cultivate and manage their digital identity and reputation and are aware of the permanence of their actions in the digital world (1.2.a).

Students engage in positive, safe, legal and ethical behavior when using technology, including social interactions online or when using networked devices (1.2.b).

Students manage their personal data to maintain digital privacy and security and are aware of data collection technology used to track their navigation online (1.2.d).

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