Edgenuity Launches Digital Citizenship, Online Learning Course

Edgenuity, a company that provides online and blended courses, has launched a new curriculum designed to help students become better digital citizens and online learners.

Dubbed Online Learning and Digital Citizenship, the course include 42 lessons on topics such as interacting with digital curriculum, digital leadership and safety, proper online etiquette, effectively dealing with online harassment and cyberbullying and more.

Designed for middle school and high school students, the course focuses on "study skills with an emphasis on digital learning best practices and online self-awareness," according to a news release. "The course includes on-screen teachers, full-screen videos, student scenarios and a variety of tasks and assignments."

Lessons are broken into six units, which include:

  • Owning your Academic Success, covering motivation, goal setting and time management;
  • Learning Online, which focuses on being a digital leader, cyberbullying and troubleshooting technology;
  • Reading and Note Taking, a unit that focuses on reading comprehension, online reading tools and how to apply note-taking skills to online learning environments;
  • Researching Online covers how to work with online texts, developing research plans, how to use search and evaluation and citation of sources;
  • Writing and Presenting is designed to teach students how to effectively manage projects, write in an academic voice, use aids for organization and create effective multimedia presentations; and
  • Studying and Test Taking covers independent and group study, how to get the best test score and test result review.

More information is available at edgenuity.com.

About the Author

Joshua Bolkan is contributing editor for Campus Technology, THE Journal and STEAM Universe. He can be reached at [email protected].

Featured

  • A young person sitting on a couch in a bright living room during the daytime, holding a tablet, with sunlight streaming through large windows and pastel-toned furniture.

    Balancing Screen Time and Student Wellness

    Student mental health is in crisis, and excessive screen time is a significant factor. Here are four ways to help students find and maintain a healthy balance with technology.

  • abstract circuit patterns, featuring small icons of coins and dollar symbols in blue, green, and gold tones

    Report: 90% of Schools Depend on E-rate Funding Every Year

    A new report from Funds for Learning highlights the critical role of the Federal Communications Commission's E-rate program in funding essential technologies and services for K-12 schools.

  • interconnected geometric human figures forming a network

    CoSN: School Staffing Is the Top Hurdle to K-12 Innovation

    Hiring and keeping educators and IT staff remains the top challenge for K-12 education in 2025, according to the latest Driving K-12 Innovation Report from the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN).

  • computer with a red warning icon on its screen, surrounded by digital grids, glowing neural network patterns, and a holographic brain

    Report Highlights Security Concerns of Open Source AI

    In these days of rampant ransomware and other cybersecurity exploits, security is paramount to both proprietary and open source AI approaches — and here the open source movement might be susceptible to some inherent drawbacks, such as use of possibly insecure code from unknown sources.