Digital Citizenship
Explain the following elements of digital citizenship: digital access, digital literacy, digital communication
Digital access is right to people all over the world to have access to internet without any restrictions.
Digital literacy is ability to distinguish bias from true info, and to be able to spot the bias, and it’s goals.
Digital communication refers to set of standards that promote proper and respectful online communication.
What types of data is government collecting?
Government collects census data, environmental data, and criminal statistics.
Name 5 institutions of Canadian democracy.
House of Common, Senate, Prime Minister, Political parties, Members of the Parliament
Canada’s vs USA’s political party system. (how many parties are involved in elections)
Canada has multiparty system and US has two parties system.
1.Why are justice, representation, accountability, and equality important in democracy?
Justice is equality under the law; government needs represent voters; accountability is responsibility towards citizens; equality is related to equal rights and obligations of all citizens.
Explain the following elements of digital citizenship: digital etiquette, digital law, digital rights and responsibilities
Digital etiquette refers to respectful manners while interacting with someone via internet, posting, and commenting online content.
Digital law refers to legal boundaries that government puts over the internet.
Digital rights and responsibilities are set of rights and responsibilities which we have from the moment we connect to the internet.
Why is government collecting census data?
The purpose is to allocate resources, and make future planning.
What is the role of the House of Common?
The main role is to join legislation (make law), keep the government accountable, represent people who voted for them.
How do government decisions affect citizens of Canada?
Citizens feel the impact in daily lives including public safety, healthcare, and education. Better decisions lead to better economic and community development.
What are main democratic processes?
Voting, legislation, participation in government
Explain the following elements of digital citizenship: digital health and wellness, digital commerce, digital security.
uDigital health and wellness are related to managing our screen time and taking care of ourselves while using internet.
Digital commerce refers to using proper platforms, and means of money transactions while online shopping.
Digital security is the most important element which refers to cyber security and protection. Means that we need to keep our data safe and always be aware who are we sharing it with.
Describe the techniques that you use to evaluate website.
Checking out the domain extension and about us page.
What is the role of Senate?
The main role is to join legislation by reviewing the law and suggesting amendments if needed, or delay legislation, represent regional interests, and aim to serve all Canadian citizens.
What do political parties do in the government?
Political parties form the government, position and opposition. Parties’ platforms and policies become law of the country.
What are the threats to democracy?
Misinformation, erosion of thrust in institutions, voter suppression, political polarization
What domain extensions are trustworthy?
What are the responsibilities of elected officials?
Responsibilities of the elected officials are to participate in the process of legislation, keep the government accountable, and represent their constituents (their voters).
What is the purpose of the lobby groups in democracy?
They suggest laws, and they provide funds, sponsorship and voter mobilizations for the political parties.
What kind of changes in democracy lead to more or less success for political parties in elections?
Shifts in voter supports due to different reasons (social movements, economy crisis...) can lead to forming of the new parties or declining the old ones.
Changing the electoral system could lead to more success of some parties, and less success of others.
How to recognize bias?
To recognize bias we must focus on the title first to see is it targeting emotional appeal. After that we need to read the article carefully and evaluate is it giving full or selective information. And lastly to see whether the article is written by an expert of the certain field or just a commentator or a politician.
Explain decision making process.
Decision making processes involves various stages, including proposal, debate, and approval of legislation.
Why do political parties shift from center to left?
Political parties change their positions or ideologies based on the public value and new societal expectations.
What is the difference between Firs Past the Post vs Proportional Representation?
In First Past The Post that must win riding to enter the House of Common. The party that wins highest percentage of the votes wins certain number of seats in the House of Common.
In Proportional Representation system in order to form the government party needs to have more than 50% of total votes, or to make a coalition with the other party, and together have more than 50%.