2020 DTA: Draft plan for teaching elements of digital citizenship: How to become a digital guard. Game elements for digital self-defense. Sure you can improve it.

Draft plan for teaching elements of digital citizenship:  
How to become a digital guard.  
Game elements for digital self-defense.
Sure you can improve it.

A draft plan for teaching elements of digital citizenship with the aid of a digital teaching assistant (DTA) and methods from gamification.  This article is explicitly licensed Public Domain (CC0).

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Plan for teaching elements of digital citizenship

• To be managed by a Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA)
• Badge model of gamification.

Objectives

Digital Safety Badge (DSB)

• Apprentice: Recognise and report scams and phishing.  
• Journeyman: Help others to recognise and report scams and phishing. 
• Master: Mentor others as they work on the DSB.

Digital Guard Badge (DGB)

• Apprentice: Recognize and report instances of cyberbullying
• Journeyman: Help others to deal with  instances of cyber-bullying.
• Master: Mentor others as they work on the DSB.

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Earn the DSB

General plan

• Practice the learner on the target skill.
• Target skill: Recognise and report scams and phishing.
• Method: Gather a large collection of instances and innocuous items.
• Present them to the learner with request to determine whether they are scams.
• Use presentation method that limits the information to the presented text.
• Measure of success: (Errors = misses + false positives)/total tries 
• Apprentice target: 75% correct 3 consecutive weeks.
• Journeyman target: 95% correct 6 consecutive weeks.
• Master target: Tutored 5 people who reached Journeyman level. 

Instructional content

• Report scams and phishing
• How to Recognize and Avoid Phishing Scams
• Report any phishing attack to the FTC at ftc.gov/complaint

Practice, DSB-DTA

• Provided by DSB-DTA. sends  notes to the learner from time to time.
• Notes will be of this form:
• "I just got this in my email: {insert email text} What should I do with it?"
• The email insertion is to be sampled from a database of spam emails.
• The database would have about 30% scams and 70% innocuous spam.
• The learner's task is to respond in a email with these items: 
• (1) Indicate whether this is a scam or not.
• (2) Copy-paste the language that shows it is a scam.
• Each item has the correct answer and a paragraph giving the basis of that conclusion.
• DTA receives the scam-or-not answer in an on-click field and evaluates it.
• DSB]-DTA passes evaluated response to scorekeeper DTA.
• DSB-DTA  tests entered language (2) against language from database.
• DSB-DTA presents language from database, with comment based on the test above.

Scorekeeper DTA

• Measure of success: (Errors = misses + false positives)/total tries 
• DSB-DTA sends the result of each trial to scorekeeper-DTA.

Exit qualifications

• Apprentice target: 75% correct 3 consecutive weeks.
• Journeyman target: 95% correct 6 consecutive weeks.
• Master target: Tutored 5 people who reached Journeyman level. 

Earn the DGB

General plan

• Practice the learner on the target skill.
• Target skill: Recognise and report scams and phishing.
• Method: Gather a large collection of instances and innocuous items.
• Present them to the learner to determine appropriate action.
• Learner selects from the following options: 
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• Use presentation method that limits the information to the presented text.
• Measure of success: (correct choices)/total tries 
• Apprentice target: 75% correct 3 consecutive weeks.
• Journeyman target: 95% correct 6 consecutive weeks.
• Master target: Tutored 5 people who reached Journeyman level. 

Instructional content

• What Is Cyberbullying
• Report Cyberbullying

Practice, DGB-DTA

• Provided by DSB DTA. sends  notes to the learner from time to time.
• Notes will be of this form:
• "I just got this in my email: {insert email text} What should I do with it?"
• The email insertion is to be sampled from a database of cyberbullying.
• The database would have a collection of all the 
• The learner's task is to respond in a email with these items: 
• (1) Indicate the appropriate treatment 
• No action, not cyberbullying.  
• Save, possible cyberbullying  if repeated. Do not respond, block the sender.
• Report, definite cyberbulling.  Do not respond, block the sender.
• Report to police, possible crime. Do not respond, block the sender.
• (2) Copy-paste the language that shows cyberbullying or crime, if applicable.
• Each item has the correct answer and a paragraph giving the basis of that conclusion.
• DTA receives the scam-or-not answer in an on-click field and evaluates it.
• DSB DTA passes evaluated response to scorekeeper DTA.
• DSB DTA  tests entered language (2) against language from database.
• DSB DTA presents language from database, with comment based on the test above.

Scorekeeper DTA

• Measure of success: (Number of correct answers)/total tries 
• DSB-DTA sends the result of each trial to scorekeeper-DTA.

Exit qualifications

• Apprentice target: 75% correct 3 consecutive weeks.
• Journeyman target: 95% correct 6 consecutive weeks.
• Master target: Tutored 5 people who reached Journeyman level.

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