Teach students about digital citizenship and online safety, emphasizing ethical technology use, personal information protection, and cultivating a positive digital footprint.
Full Course Description
Equip the next generation with our Teaching Digital Citizenship and Online Safety Online Course. This 1.5-hour course is designed for educators, youth workers, and counselors who want to teach young people to navigate the digital world safely and responsibly. Learn how to educate students on ethical technology use, online safety, and maintaining a positive digital footprint. The course covers key strategies for identifying digital threats, implementing responsible technology use, and managing online footprints. By the end, you’ll be ready to foster a safe, positive digital environment. Enroll today to enhance your ability to guide youth in responsible online behavior.
Course Outcomes
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
Identify key components of online safety for young people.
Implement strategies for teaching about secure and responsible technology use.
Guide youth in managing their digital footprint responsibly.
CEU Requirements
To receive CEU credit for taking this course, you must:
Pass the knowledge check-ins and complete the entire course.
Complete the course evaluation form at the end of the course.
Upon successful completion, you will receive a certificate showing the CEUs earned.
Change Up Learning requires disclosure of proprietary interests. No staff, instructors, or course developers have proprietary interests related to this course.
This course will take approximately 1.5 hours to complete.
This course satisfies these child care training requirements:
Standards for Quality Afterschool Programs
1. Administration and Organization
2. Program Management and Staff
3. Communication and Interaction
Department of Children and Families (Annual In-Service Training)
7. Behavior management
16. Guidance and discipline
17. Computer technology
23. Other course areas relating to child care or child care management
Early Care & Education Professional Development Content Areas
1. Child Development and Learning in Context
7. Health and Safety
Program Content
2. Interpersonal Relations
Program Management
6. Safety and Health
Afterschool Program Standards
Program Content
Program Management
Early Care and Education Professional Competency Goals for Staff
1. Child development, including discipline, guidance, nutrition, injury control and safety
Afterschool & Youth Development Standards
6. Staffing & Professional Development
7. Organizational Practices
Early Care and Education Professional Competency Goals for Directors
f. Advocacy for the Center, Parents, children and Staff
Network for Youth Success Quality Self-Assessment (QSA) Tool
1. Environment & Climate
3. Relationships
4. Staffing & Professional Development
5. Programming & Activities
7. Youth Participation & Engagement to Care
9. Program Sustainability & Growth
NYC DYCD Core Competencies for Youth Work Professionals
3. Ability to promote an inclusive, welcoming, and respectful environment that embraces diversity.
4. Ability to foster academic and non-academic skills and broaden participant horizons.
6. Ability to promote responsible and healthy decision-making among all participants.
7. Ability to develop leadership, team-building and self-advocacy skills among participants.
School Age Child Care
4. Safety and Security Procedure
10. Adverse Childhood Experiences, Focused on Understanding Trauma and on Nurturing Resiliency
Out-of-School Time (NMOST) Guiding Principles
1. Environmental Safety
6. Programming
8. Staffing and Professional Development
Early Childhood Education and Care Department
2. Health, safety, nutrition, and infection control
Career Development
1. Ethics and professionalism in child care
Child Growth and Development
2. Interpersonal Relationships
5. Health and Safety
7. Challenging behaviors
Child Growth and Development
2. Interpersonal Relationships
5. Health and Safety
7. Challenging behaviors
Ohio Department of Job and Family Services: Child Care Center Professional Development Training Topics
Career Development
Child Growth and Development
Quality Guidelines for Ohio's Afterschool Programs
Child Growth and Development
The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) Training
1. Health and safety
5. Guidance and discipline techniques
MOST (Michigan Out-of-School Time) Standards of Quality
1. Health, Safety
2. Human Relationships
Core Knowledge Areas from the Michigan Core Knowledge and Core Competencies for the Early Care and Education Workforce
2. Health, safety, and nutrition
5. Teaching and learning
7. Interactions and guidance
After School Program Quality Standards and Indicators
1. Health, Safety and the Environment
2. Relationships
3. Programming and Activities
4. Staffing and Professional Development
Early Learning and Development Standards
2. Social and Emotional Development
Afterschool Standards
1. Human Relationships
3. Programming and Activities
Core Knowledge and Competencies
2. Health, Safety and Nutrition
Early Childhood Professional Learning Categories
1. Learning Communities
Afterschool Network Quality Standards
4. Programming
5. Health
Afterschool Alliance's Quality Standards
1. Planning a safe, healthy learning environment
6. Maintaining a commitment to professionalism
Child Care Centers Professional Growth and Development Training Requirements
1. Planning a safe, healthy learning environment (includes nutrition)
6. Maintaining a commitment to professionalism
Afterschool Alliance Best Practices
1. Prepared Staff
4. Promotion of Varied Youth Engagement
6. Promotion of Safety, Health and Wellness
All Staff Annual Training
2. Social and Emotional Development
3. Child Guidance
Director Annual Training
4. Child Guidance
Early Learning Staff Professional Development Areas
All Staff Annual Training
Director Annual Training
Afterschool Network Best Practices
1. Prepared Staff
4. Promotion of Varied Youth Engagement
6. Promotion of Safety, Health and Wellness
Core Competencies for Early Childhood Practitioners
2. Health, safety and nutrition
6. Interactions with children
Guidelines for Afterschool, Summer, and Youth Development Programs
1. Relationships
2. Health, Safety, and Environment
3. Programming and Activities
4. Youth Leadership and Engagement
7. Assessment, Planning, and Program Improvement
8. Staff and Professional Development
Child Care Training Regulations
4. Positive behavior management
6. Supervision of children
Quality Standards for Expanded Learning
1. Safe and Supportive Environment
3. Skill Building
5. Healthy Choices and Behaviors
7. Quality Staff
10. Continuous Quality Improvement
11. Program Management
ECE Competencies
2. Culture, Diversity and Equity
Core Competencies for Early Childhood Professionals
1. Safe Environments
2. Healthy Environments
9. Social Development
10. Guidance
Goals for Program Management and Delivery
1. Safe, Healthy, and Orderly Environment
2. Qualified and Diverse Staff
Goals for Program Connections
4. Positive Participant and Staff Interactions
Goals for Program Participants
7. Greater Personal Responsibility
9. Greater Creativity and Well-Being
Child Care Facilities: Staff Development Topics
a. Planning a safe, healthy learning environment
North Carolina Center for Afterschool Programs (NCCAP)
Goals for Program Connections
Goals for Program Management and Delivery
Goals for Program Participants
Texas Partnership for Out-of-School Time (TXPOST) Standards of High Quality
1. Safety, Health and Nutrition
2. Staff and Volunteer Management
3. Programming and Activities
8. Program Sustainability, Evaluation and Awareness In-Service
Early Childhood Education: Professional Development Areas
Annual Training (3) Age-appropriate curriculum
Quality Standards for OST Programs
1: Health and Safety
3: Youth-Centered Program Design
Hawaii OST Quality Guidelines
1b. Pilina (Relationships) between Youth and their Peers
3c. Health, Safety, and Emergencies
Early Childhood - Continuing Education
2. Child Guidance
Afterschool Program Quality Institute
3. Programming
4. Youth Participation and Engagement
Childcare Program: Continuing Education
2. Health and safety or fire safety
7. Behavior guidance
Standards of Early Learning and Development
2. Health, Safety and Universal Precautions
Afterschool Quality Standards
7. Staffing and Professional Development
8. Evaluation for Continuous Quality Improvement
Standards for Quality Afterschool Programs
2. Ongoing Training and Staff Development
3. Program Monitoring and Evaluation
Afterschool Program Quality Guidelines
2. Programming
3. Relationships
5. Professional Development
Virginia Partnership for Out-of-School Time Quality Standards
2. Staffing, Volunteers & Professional Development
7. Health, Nutrition & Physical Fitness
8. Environment (Indoor & Outdoor Spaces)
Child Care VA Standards
6. Safe Spaces
Core Knowledge and Competencies for Early Childhood Professionals
3. Child safety, abuse, and neglect
West Virginia Afterschool Program Quality Standards
4. Health, Safety and Nutrition
5. Indoor and Outdoor Environments
Academic Standards: Essential Skills
3. Civic/Interpersonal Skills
OST Quality Guidelines
5. Staff Qualifications and Training
Child Care Core of Knowledge
3. Health, Safety, and Nutrition
6. Community
Out-of-School Time Program Quality Standards
Administrative Quality Standards
Administrative Quality Standards
III. Health, Safety and Program Space
IV. Youth Program Staffing and Professional Development
Pennsylvania Statewide Afterschool Youth Development Network (PSAYDN) Statement of Quality in Afterschool
3. Safety and Health
Guiding Principles for Quality OST Programs
3. Skill Building
4. Positive & Empowering Relationships
6. Healthy Choices & Behaviors
Early Care and Education Knowledge Base
4. Teaching and engagement
Building Blocks for Out-of-School Time Quality
3. Youth Voice, Leadership, and Engagement
7. Ongoing Staff Support and Volunteer Development
8. Youth Safety and Wellness
School's Out Washington Quality Improvement Standards
4. Engaging in learning opportunities that build academic, life, and career skills
7. Building awareness of structural inequities, including the impact systemic barriers have on young people
8. Implementing strategies and practices that are culturally responsive and attuned to the diverse identities and cultures of the young people, families, and communities served
Department of Children, Youth & Families: Child Care Provider Training Requirements
5. Safety and wellness
8. Professional development and leadership
10. Youth empowerment
Department of Early Learning and Care: Training
4. Health Safety and Nutrition
7. Personal, Professional & Leadership Development
8. Program Management
10. Understanding and Guiding Behavior
National Afterschool Association Competencies
4. Interactions with Children and Youth
6. Cultural Competency and Responsiveness
8. Safety and Wellness
Early Childhood Educator Requirements: Birth to Second Grade
4. Positive behavior management/social-emotional development
Statewide Afterschool Quality Standards
4. Professional Development and Qualifications
6. Youth Development, Programming, and Activities
Program Quality Practices
5. Families and Communities
8. Professional Development
Afterschool & Out-of-School Time Professional Network
5. Programming and Activities
6. Safety and Environmental Health
Department of Children & Families: Staff Training Requirements for Childcare Centers
ii. Positive guidance and discipline
After School Network
5. Safety
6. Staffing/Professional Development
7. Administration/Organization
Core Knowledge Areas, DC Division of Early Learning Training Categories
6. Learning Environments
9. Program Management, Operation and Evaluation
10. Professionalism and Advocacy
Ignite Afterschool
6. Organizational Management, Staff Support and Youth Safety
Teachers of Early Childhood Education Subject Matter Standards
7. Health, safety, and nutrition
Department of Social Services, Child Care Services (CCS): Pathway to Professional Development
6. Program health and safety
11. Learning environments
Quality Standards for Nevada OST Programs
a. Youth Development & Social Emotional Learning
b. Health, Safety and Security of the Physical Environment
c. Program Management & Professional Development
d. Program Structure, Curriculum & Activities
Early Childhood Education Professional Learning Standards
B. Health and Safety Issues
Quality Standards for Out-of-School Time Programs
C. Intentional Programming and Activities
F. Program Management
Child Care Training & Education
Standard 3: Staff Qualifications and Professional Development
Standard 7: Health, Safety, Nutrition, and Physical Activity
Division of Early Care and Education: Staff Development
k. Guiding children’s behavior
s. Any other topic that promotes child development or protects children’s health or safety
Early Childhood Professional Development Framework
Standard IX: Demonstrates Implementation of Technology
