The forward, traced
One message the class has all received. Who sent it first, when, why. A written trail, and a verdict.
Skills · Digital Citizenship
Before you forward it.
The phone is already in the room. This skill is what a student does with it: check, pause, protect, and keep a record. Classes 6 to 12.
- Classes
- 6–12
- Form of work
- Human services
- CBSE circular
- Skill-81/2025
- Runs on
- Paper, and devices already in school
- Status
- New for 2026-27
Why this skill
Not a lecture about the internet.
Every school has given the assembly talk about screens and been ignored. A skill is different from a warning. Before you forward. A message arrives. Who sent it first, when, and why? Students trace one forward back to its source before they pass it on.
The work is small, repeated, and done on the students' own habits, which is why it sticks. It sits under work on providing human services, the form of work Kaushal Bodh asks for and schools most often struggle to fill.
The work
What students actually build
Example briefs, not student work.
The screen-time ledger
A week of honest logging, charted, then compared with what everyone guessed.
A code the students wrote
A one-page agreement for the class's own devices, drafted, argued, and signed by the people it binds.
Classes 6 to 12
Class by class.
Classes 6 to 8
forwards, passwords, screen-time logs. Kaushal Bodh projects under human services (Circular Skill-81/2025, 28.10.2025).
Classes 9 to 10
source checking, privacy settings, a scam anatomised, and what a digital footprint costs.
Classes 11 to 12
consent and data, the law as it stands, and running the sessions for the junior classes.
Classes 6 to 12
Any teacher can run this. The training is in facilitation: holding a conversation about habits without turning it into a telling-off, and letting students find their own evidence.
By August to December teachers lead and we coach. The material is refreshed each year because the platforms change.
Equipment
Equipment is bought. Capability is built.
Nothing to buy. The students' own devices, used with permission and within the school's rules, and the computer lab you already have. CBSE's CSL equipment list is explicitly "suggestive", adoptable per readiness (Circular Skill-13/2026, 20.03.2026).
The skills map
Related skills.
Questions
Honest answers.
Our students are not allowed phones in school.
Good. The work runs on paper and in the computer lab; the habits go home with them.
Is this a curriculum subject?
No. It is project work under work on providing human services, where Kaushal Bodh asks classes 6 to 8 for one project a year.
Who decides what is appropriate?
Your school. We bring the briefs; the code of conduct the students write sits inside the rules you already have.
Book a workshop
Half a day at your school. Here is what happens.
How a school and Hankernest find out whether Digital Citizenship fits before anyone commits to a year. Inside your timetable, with your teachers and your students, on what you already own.
in the demo period
Your class builds
One forward the class has all received, traced back on paper: who sent it first, when, and why.
And learns. Pause before you pass it on.
- First period
A demo period with a class
One brief from this page, run as a lesson with one of your classes, on what the school already owns.
- Second period
Hands-on for your teachers
The same kit in their hands. Where it fails, what students ask, how the period is paced.
- Over tea
The timetable conversation
Where the periods come from, which classes, and which forms of work the projects would cover.
- Within the week
A written fit note
What we would run, what you already have, what you would buy directly, and a cost band. No obligation.
You pick the class and the period. We bring what the session needs.
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