Learning objective
Digital Footprint
Digital Footprint & Online Identity
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Understanding how online actions, shared media, accounts, and persistent digital trails create a permanent digital footprint, and learning to curate a positive, responsible online identity.
Online Traces
Recognize that using digital devices and apps leaves visible traces and records of activity.
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Whenever you use a tablet or computer, you leave digital traces behind! Just like stepping in mud leaves a footprint, opening an app, drawing a picture, or clicking a button leaves a digital trail on the device.
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Spot the Digital Traces
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🎯 Task Success Criteria (Rubric)
Foundation
Can identify physical footprints and compare them to digital marks left on a tablet screen.
Developing
Explains that opening an app or saving a drawing creates a digital record on a device.
Secure (Goal)
Identifies common digital traces such as browser history lists, photo galleries, and recent app icons.
Mastery
Explains the difference between physical traces that wash away and digital traces stored on devices.
👀 What A Good One Looks Like (WAGOLL)
Exemplar Standard
A top-tier student project for Online Traces includes:
- Core Deliverable: Spot the Digital Traces
- Target Quality: Identifies common digital traces such as browser history lists, photo galleries, and recent app icons.
- Excellence & Polish: Explains the difference between physical traces that wash away and digital traces stored on devices.
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⭐Self-Assessment: How confident do you feel with this skill?
Reflect
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Teacher setup, curriculum links and progress descriptors
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Routine: See-Think-Wonder
Achievement pathway
- Foundation: Can identify physical footprints and compare them to digital marks left on a tablet screen.
- Developing: Explains that opening an app or saving a drawing creates a digital record on a device.
- Secure: Identifies common digital traces such as browser history lists, photo galleries, and recent app icons.
- Mastering: Explains the difference between physical traces that wash away and digital traces stored on devices.
Curriculum links
Curriculum strand: Digital Citizenship & Online Safety
Outcome: OS.01.B.1.1 — Recognize that using digital devices and apps leaves visible traces and records of activity.
PYP: Form · Our actions on digital devices leave records that show where we have been and what we have done.
Learner profile: Inquirer
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Level 2: What We Share
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What We Share
Identify what information is safe to share online and understand that shared content can be seen by others.
Learning objective
Students will distinguish between public information safe to share online and private personal information that should stay secret.
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When you post a photo, video, or comment online, you are sharing it with a wider audience. Private information like your full name, home address, school name, and passwords should NEVER be shared online without permission from a trusted adult.
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Classify Safe vs Private Info
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🎯 Task Success Criteria (Rubric)
Foundation
Can name personal details like full name, home address, and passwords.
Developing
Sorts items into 'Safe to Share' (favorite color) vs 'Keep Private' (home address, phone number).
Secure (Goal)
Explains that photos or messages posted online can be viewed, copied, or shared by other people.
Mastery
Evaluates hypothetical online posts to ensure private personal data is protected.
👀 What A Good One Looks Like (WAGOLL)
Exemplar Standard
A top-tier student project for What We Share includes:
- Core Deliverable: Classify Safe vs Private Info
- Target Quality: Explains that photos or messages posted online can be viewed, copied, or shared by other people.
- Excellence & Polish: Evaluates hypothetical online posts to ensure private personal data is protected.
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⭐Self-Assessment: How confident do you feel with this skill?
Reflect
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Teacher setup, curriculum links and progress descriptors
Spark support
Routine: Think-Pair-Share
Achievement pathway
- Foundation: Can name personal details like full name, home address, and passwords.
- Developing: Sorts items into 'Safe to Share' (favorite color) vs 'Keep Private' (home address, phone number).
- Secure: Explains that photos or messages posted online can be viewed, copied, or shared by other people.
- Mastering: Evaluates hypothetical online posts to ensure private personal data is protected.
Curriculum links
Curriculum strand: Digital Citizenship & Online Safety
Outcome: OS.01.B.1.2 — Identify what information is safe to share online and understand that shared content can be seen by others.
PYP: Function · Sharing pictures and words digitally communicates with others, requiring thoughtful choices about privacy.
Learner profile: Communicator
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Level 3: Permanent Footprints
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Permanent Footprints
Understand that digital content published online can be saved, copied, and remain accessible indefinitely.
Learning objective
Students will analyze how deleting a post from a screen does not automatically remove copies saved on remote servers or screenshotted by others.
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Once something is posted on the internet, it can spread quickly like ripples in water. Even if you press delete, someone might have saved a screenshot or downloaded the file. The internet has a long memory!
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Trace the Digital Ripple
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🌟 Student Project GuideSuccess Criteria & WAGOLL (What A Good One Looks Like)
🎯 Task Success Criteria (Rubric)
Foundation
Can demonstrate deleting a file on a local computer screen.
Developing
Explains that clicking 'delete' on a post does not stop someone else from saving a copy first.
Secure (Goal)
Describes how search engines, archive servers, and screenshots keep permanent copies of online content.
Mastery
Formulates the 'Billboard Test' rule: only post content online that you would be happy to display on a public billboard.
👀 What A Good One Looks Like (WAGOLL)
Exemplar Standard
A top-tier student project for Permanent Footprints includes:
- Core Deliverable: Trace the Digital Ripple
- Target Quality: Describes how search engines, archive servers, and screenshots keep permanent copies of online content.
- Excellence & Polish: Formulates the 'Billboard Test' rule: only post content online that you would be happy to display on a public billboard.
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Save to Your Website Portfolio:
When you finish creating your project in your software, copy the share link or take a screenshot and publish it onto your student portfolio website!
⭐Self-Assessment: How confident do you feel with this skill?
Reflect
Learning check
Teacher setup, curriculum links and progress descriptors
Spark support
Routine: Chalk Talk
Achievement pathway
- Foundation: Can demonstrate deleting a file on a local computer screen.
- Developing: Explains that clicking 'delete' on a post does not stop someone else from saving a copy first.
- Secure: Describes how search engines, archive servers, and screenshots keep permanent copies of online content.
- Mastering: Formulates the 'Billboard Test' rule: only post content online that you would be happy to display on a public billboard.
Curriculum links
Curriculum strand: Digital Citizenship & Online Safety
Outcome: OS.02.B.1.1 — Understand that digital content published online can be saved, copied, and remain accessible indefinitely.
PYP: Connection · Digital information posted to global networks persists over time and can be copied beyond our control.
Learner profile: Thinker
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Level 4: Managing Reputation
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Managing Reputation
Evaluate how personal posts, comments, and online interactions contribute to digital reputation and impact others.
Learning objective
Students will analyze online scenarios to evaluate how tone, kindness, and respectful behavior shape a person's digital reputation.
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Your digital footprint forms your online reputation — the impression people get of you based on what you share, comment, and like. Being kind, honest, and helpful online builds a positive digital footprint that you can be proud of!
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Audit Online Scenario Cards
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🌟 Student Project GuideSuccess Criteria & WAGOLL (What A Good One Looks Like)
🎯 Task Success Criteria (Rubric)
Foundation
Can distinguish between friendly and unkind spoken words.
Developing
Identifies how typed comments can be misunderstood without body language or voice tone.
Secure (Goal)
Evaluates digital scenarios to show how positive contributions (helping, encouraging) build a strong reputation.
Mastery
Creates a personal Digital Code of Conduct guiding respectful commenting and positive digital footprint creation.
👀 What A Good One Looks Like (WAGOLL)
Exemplar Standard
A top-tier student project for Managing Reputation includes:
- Core Deliverable: Audit Online Scenario Cards
- Target Quality: Evaluates digital scenarios to show how positive contributions (helping, encouraging) build a strong reputation.
- Excellence & Polish: Creates a personal Digital Code of Conduct guiding respectful commenting and positive digital footprint creation.
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When you finish creating your project in your software, copy the share link or take a screenshot and publish it onto your student portfolio website!
⭐Self-Assessment: How confident do you feel with this skill?
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Learning check
Teacher setup, curriculum links and progress descriptors
Spark support
Routine: 4 Cs (Connections, Concepts, Changes, Challenges)
Achievement pathway
- Foundation: Can distinguish between friendly and unkind spoken words.
- Developing: Identifies how typed comments can be misunderstood without body language or voice tone.
- Secure: Evaluates digital scenarios to show how positive contributions (helping, encouraging) build a strong reputation.
- Mastering: Creates a personal Digital Code of Conduct guiding respectful commenting and positive digital footprint creation.
Curriculum links
Curriculum strand: Digital Citizenship & Online Safety
Outcome: OS.02.B.1.2 — Evaluate how personal posts, comments, and online interactions contribute to digital reputation and impact others.
PYP: Responsibility · Respectful digital interactions build positive digital reputations and healthy online communities.
Learner profile: Principled
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Level 5: Browser Tracking
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Browser Tracking
Understand passive digital footprints created by cookies, location tracking, search histories, and targeted ads.
Learning objective
Students will explain how websites gather passive data (cookies, IP address, device type) to track user behavior and target advertisements.
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Not all digital footprints are created intentionally! You leave a passive digital footprint whenever you visit websites. Cookies, location permissions, and search history automatically track what you view so companies can build a profile of your interests.
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Inspect Browser Privacy Settings
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🌟 Student Project GuideSuccess Criteria & WAGOLL (What A Good One Looks Like)
🎯 Task Success Criteria (Rubric)
Foundation
Can notice that searching for a toy online makes ads for that toy appear on other websites.
Developing
Defines browser cookies as small text files saved by websites to remember user settings and activity.
Secure (Goal)
Differentiates between active footprints (intentional posts) and passive footprints (automatic data logging).
Mastery
Configures browser privacy settings, manages cookie consent banners, and uses private browsing modes.
👀 What A Good One Looks Like (WAGOLL)
Exemplar Standard
A top-tier student project for Browser Tracking includes:
- Core Deliverable: Inspect Browser Privacy Settings
- Target Quality: Differentiates between active footprints (intentional posts) and passive footprints (automatic data logging).
- Excellence & Polish: Configures browser privacy settings, manages cookie consent banners, and uses private browsing modes.
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Save to Your Website Portfolio:
When you finish creating your project in your software, copy the share link or take a screenshot and publish it onto your student portfolio website!
⭐Self-Assessment: How confident do you feel with this skill?
Reflect
Learning check
Teacher setup, curriculum links and progress descriptors
Spark support
Routine: Connect-Extend-Challenge
Achievement pathway
- Foundation: Can notice that searching for a toy online makes ads for that toy appear on other websites.
- Developing: Defines browser cookies as small text files saved by websites to remember user settings and activity.
- Secure: Differentiates between active footprints (intentional posts) and passive footprints (automatic data logging).
- Mastering: Configures browser privacy settings, manages cookie consent banners, and uses private browsing modes.
Curriculum links
Curriculum strand: Digital Citizenship & Online Safety
Outcome: OS.03.B.1.1 — Understand passive digital footprints created by cookies, location tracking, search histories, and targeted ads.
PYP: Perspective · Websites and automated systems collect passive user data to track browsing habits and customize content.
Learner profile: Knowledgeable
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Level 6: Digital Legacy
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Digital Legacy
Audit personal digital footprints and curate a respectful, authentic online presence and digital portfolio.
Learning objective
Students will conduct a digital footprint self-audit and curate a professional, positive student digital portfolio.
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Curating your digital identity means taking control of your online presence! By regularly auditing your accounts, setting strong privacy controls, and showcasing your best projects, you create a digital footprint that reflects your true skills, values, and achievements.
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Conduct a Digital Footprint Audit
🚀 Open a practice space
🌟 Student Project GuideSuccess Criteria & WAGOLL (What A Good One Looks Like)
🎯 Task Success Criteria (Rubric)
Foundation
Can select 3 best pieces of work to display on a classroom wall.
Developing
Audits sample social media profiles or project portfolios to flag inappropriate or low-quality posts.
Secure (Goal)
Performs a personal digital audit (searching own name, reviewing privacy settings across accounts).
Mastery
Publishes a curated digital portfolio showcasing academic projects, creative coding, and community contributions with full attribution.
👀 What A Good One Looks Like (WAGOLL)
Exemplar Standard
A top-tier student project for Digital Legacy includes:
- Core Deliverable: Conduct a Digital Footprint Audit
- Target Quality: Performs a personal digital audit (searching own name, reviewing privacy settings across accounts).
- Excellence & Polish: Publishes a curated digital portfolio showcasing academic projects, creative coding, and community contributions with full attribution.
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Save to Your Website Portfolio:
When you finish creating your project in your software, copy the share link or take a screenshot and publish it onto your student portfolio website!
⭐Self-Assessment: How confident do you feel with this skill?
Reflect
Learning check
Teacher setup, curriculum links and progress descriptors
Spark support
Routine: I used to think..., But now I think...
Achievement pathway
- Foundation: Can select 3 best pieces of work to display on a classroom wall.
- Developing: Audits sample social media profiles or project portfolios to flag inappropriate or low-quality posts.
- Secure: Performs a personal digital audit (searching own name, reviewing privacy settings across accounts).
- Mastering: Publishes a curated digital portfolio showcasing academic projects, creative coding, and community contributions with full attribution.
Curriculum links
Curriculum strand: Digital Citizenship & Online Safety
Outcome: OS.03.B.1.2 — Audit personal digital footprints and curate a respectful, authentic online presence and digital portfolio.
PYP: Reflection · Intentionally curating our digital identity allows us to showcase achievements, reflect our values, and contribute positively to global society.
Learner profile: Reflective
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Teacher override: allow