GCE1: Digital Citizenship

What guidelines can you teach your students to create a strong password?

• Use complex and extremely long numeric series
• Use a combination of letters, symbols and numbers, and make it 8-9 characters long
• Use random letters and numbers
• Use a difficult word from the dictionary

Now that you are a password expert, choose the strongest password from this list:

• Football123
• ImA@SF#11
• uhuo$
• 25041990

Strong passwords can be difficult to remember—what can you teach your students to make them easier to remember? (Check all that apply.)

• Use a password manager
• Write down your passwords on a piece of paper and store it in a safe place
• Send yourself an email with your login information
• Create a passphrase

When choosing a new password, what’s the best advice you can give your students? r

• Add a number or special character at the end of your old password
• Pick something easy to remember such as your birthday or pet’s name
• Choose the next consecutive number from your old password
• Create a new and different passphrase that is easy for you to remembe

What would you tell your students not to do when connected to a public WiFi network?

• Entering username and password, for example to log into email or social network account
• Online banking
• Entering credit card details
• All of the above

What’s the risk of entering or sending personal information when connected to a network they do not know or trust?

• Nothing can go wrong
• Personal information can be intercepted

What should students look for on a website to help them decide if the information is reliable?

• Author’s name
• Publication date
• Author’s qualifications
• All of the above

It’s important to teach students to contrast at least 3 sources of information when reading about:

• Today’s news and recent world events
• Historical events
• Health-related information
• All types of information, regardless of topic

Choose the statement that best reflects how to identify dubious sources of information:

• Dubious information is generally hosted on suspicious-looking sites
• If you can find the author’s name, the information is likely to be reliable2
• Ask where, who, what, when questions and contrast at least 3 sources of information
• Find the date of publication and trust only the latest information

If one of your students finds an anonymous article online that they wish to quote in an essay, what would you advise them to do?

• Contrast the information with additional sources by qualified authors, determine if it’s reliable, and quote the qualified authors
• Quote the anonymous article without contrasting the information, but make it clear that it came from an “anonymous” or “unknown” author
• Immediately conclude that the article contains dubious information