Daisy Digital Leadership Badge for Girl Scouts

Are your interested in trying out a few of the Daisy Girl Scout badges? If so, we are compiling guides for each badge with our helpful tips and plans for Daisy Girl Scout leaders to help you earn each badge. This article looks specifically at earning the Daisy Digital Leadership Badge which focuses on learning more about the online digital world. This is a great badge to begin with as it is introductory and provides the daisies with the knowledge they need to spring off onto other digital badges. The Daisy Girl Scouts will learn about digital communities, safe information to share online, and how to use technology to make the world a better place.

We love incorporating the Digital Leadership Badge for Daisy Girl Scouts before cookie selling season as so many girls will start to use the digital cookie platform. Since many scouts are beginning to use online sales, e-learning days becoming a regular part of children’s learning, and children are using technology more and more in school and at home, teaching digital leadership is an absolutely must for all children.

What is Digital Leadership?

Digital leadership means using technology to protect yourself and inspire and guide others per the Girl Scouts Daisy Digital Leadership Badge Glossary. This is a board definition and includes so much more than just the internet. Per the Girl Scouts, technology are machines that help us do things and digital technology includes computers, tablets, and smartphones.

Anytime the daisies use technology to protect themselves or use technology to inspire or guide others, they are being a digital leader. This is something that daisies need to learn to do safely as they will use tablets, computers, and smartphones pretty regularly at school and home.

Materials Needed for The Daisy Girl Scout Digital Leadership Badge

While you can earn the Daisy Digital Leadership Badge without many materials at all or other materials that we use in our agenda, we are providing a material list for all the activities that we used to earn this badge with Daisy Girl Scouts. The Girl Scout Volunteer Toolkit is an amazing resource for leaders and provided free of charge so that you can access meeting plans, resources, and badge requirements.

• Daisy Digital Leadership Glossary provided in the Girl Scout Volunteer Toolkit for leaders
• Neighborhood Map provided in the Girl Scout Volunteer Toolkit for leaders
• Emoji Examples provided in the Girl Scout Volunteer Toolkit for leaders
• Paper bags or boxes
• Items that describe each girl (we asked the girls to provide from home)
• Blank paper
• Markers or crayons or pencils
• Glue
• Digital Leadership badges
• You can also purchase the Daisy Digital Leadership badge requirements

What are the Digital Leadership Daisy Badge Requirements?

Daisy Digital Leadership badge is perfect for Daisy Girl Scouts who want to learn more about the online digital world and how to safely navigate this space. This adventure is all about learning to better understand the internet and online communities.

1. Discover your communities.
2. Explore a world of information
3. Use technology for good

For each step in the Daisy Digital Leadership badge you will choose one activity for each of the steps. The Girl Scouts provides leaders three different activities to choose from, but you can vary from these provided activities as long as you meet the overall goal.

Discover Your Communities for the Daisy Digital Leadership Badge

To meet the discover your communities step, there are three activities you can choose from provided by the Girl Scouts. These three activities are as follows:

1. Create your world by reviewing the Digital Leadership vocabulary
2. Map your neighborhood by reviewing the Digital Leadership vocabulary and identifying places that exist in the real world, the digital world and both.
3. Explore your Girl Scout community by reviewing the Digital Leadership vocabulary and exploring objects the represent being a Daisy Girl Scout.

We choose activity two since our daisies were learning about maps in school and we wanted to show our scouts that the physical and digital world overlap quite a bit.

Begin by asking your scouts to share different communities that they are part of. They will most likely share many different communities and recognize that a community is a group of people or animals. You may need to help them to see that a community usually has a common goal, purpose, or idea instead of a random group of people. Guide this conversation towards digital communities and how they are similar or difference from the communities that the girls are describing. You might even have scouts who mention being part of digital communities.

Once the scouts have a good understanding of digital communities, bring out copies of Neighborhood Map. We provided a copy for each girl, but you could also project one copy for all to see or provide one copy for small groups of girls. Ask the scouts to identify the different communities on the map, many of these communities the girls might have already described during the initial discussion. Allow your scouts to mark up their maps and show the various communities, both in person and digital that exist on their map.

Approximate Time: 20 minutes

Girl Scout Daisy Digital Leadership Badge Vocabulary

We did introduce a few words throughout the conversation with the girls. As the girls discussed, we are able to work most of these words into our opening activity. Try to introduce them as naturally as possible. However, if the scouts do not mention these ideas, then you may need to introduce them or ask leading questions to arrive at the words.

• Community: A group of people that come together around a place, idea, interest, or goal.
• Digital: Finding or sharing information online. It’s also connecting with others through technology.
• Digital community: Who and what you interact with online, including people and organizations.
• Digital content: Something created to be used or shared online, like a video, digital art, or online presentation.
• Digital leadership: When you use technology to protect yourself and inspire and guide others.
• Digital world: Using technology like a tablet, smartphone, or computer.
• Emoji: A digital image that shows people, an object, a feeling, or an action.
• Map: A drawing of a place with information about it.
• Private and public information: Private information isn’t okay to share. It’s things like your full name, address, phone number, email, and passwords. It tells others your identity. Public information, like a favorite song or book, is okay to share with people you know and trust.
• Technology: Machines that help us do things. Digital technology includes computers, tablets, and smartphones.

What Questions Can We Ask While Exploring Digital Leadership?

As you go through learning about the digital leadership vocabulary, it is important to use questions to help guide the discussion without taking over the discussion from the scouts. Your scouts should do more talking than the adults.

• Which communities are you a part of?
• What is a community?
• How can a community be formed online?
• How is a digital community different than an in person community? How are they similar?
• What digital content have you seen or used?
• Can you use any digital content to become a digital leader?
• What emojis do you know and use?
• What is the difference between public and private information? How do you know if something should stay private?

Explore a World of Information for the Daisy Digital Leadership Badge

When earning the explore a world of information step, there are three activities you can choose from provided by the Girl Scouts. These three activities are as follows:

1. Play “Share or Don’t Share.”
2. Build an information box.
3. Make an emoji poster, see the Emoji Examples.

We choose to create a combination activity for this step of the Daisy Digital Leadership badge. This activity helped to meet the requires of multiple Daisy badges and really helped our daisies to learn more about sharing information online.

We gave each scout a brown paper bag, we love the larger ones given at the grocery store but you could easily use a smaller paper bag or a box. We asked the girls to fill their bag with a variety of objects that describe them including both public and private information about themselves. You can fill the bag with real objects, drawings, written words or phrases, or even emojis. Our scouts loved adding some emojis into their bags.

At the meeting ask your girls to share the information in their bags. We had the girls take out all the items and lay them in front of them. Then they would share each item. If it was public information, they kept it outside of their bag. If it was private information, they placed the item inside their bag stating what the item was but not the information. So a girl would say “my address” or “my phone number” and place the paper into her bag, instead of telling us her actual address or phone number.

Afterwards, ask your Daisy Girl Scouts to decorate their bags with a variety of emojis that describe them and are okay to share publicly. Our girls loved creating sports and activity based emojis as well as personal emojis. If your girls struggle with what an emoji is, provide a copy of the Emoji Examples to assist with brainstorming. This step completes the third requirement for earning the Daisy Digital Leadership badge.

Approximate Time: 30 minutes

Daisy Digital Leadership Badge Use Technology for Good

There three activities you can choose from provided by the Girl Scouts to earn the use technology for good requirement. These three activities are as follows:

1. Make an emoji.
2. Teach others with a video.
3. Share your message.

Since our Daisy Girl Scouts created emojis on their paper bags to describe themselves, we have completed the requirements for Use Technology for Good. However, we also asked our daisies to share the outsides of their bags with their families at the end of the meeting and to share the types of information inside their bags that are private and not to be shared online.

Approximate Time: 10 minutes

Ending the Daisy Digital Leadership Badge Meeting

After completing the three parts to earn the Daisy Digital Leadership badge, we wanted our daisies to share their new learning with their families. So we asked our girls to present their decorated bags and emojis to all the family members who came to pick up the scouts. You may wish to send an email asking families to arrive a little early today for a special presentation from the girls during the last 10 minutes or the meeting.

Our girls shared the information that they drew on the outside of their bags as well as the emojis that they created. They were so very excited to share and loved being the spotlight, even if just for a minute. They also shared the different information that was inside their bags: the private information that should only be shared with permission and should not be posted online.

Our families loved the little glimpse into the girls learning and seeing their daughters presenting information. Plan for families to take short videos and lots of pictures of their daughter. You may even wish to have a microphone available or ask the girl who is presenting to stand up and step forward. If you have time, you could make a special backdrop for the photos.

Girl Scout Daisy Badges That Pair Well with the Daisy Digital Leadership Badge

While you explore the world of digital leadership with your Daisy Girl Scouts, there are badges that pair well and flow nicely after this badge. Sometimes these badges are easier to pair than other times. We find it most helpful to chain the badges from one meeting to the next, especially when requirements overlap.

Cybersecurity Basics

The above plan for the Daisy Digital Leadership badge, fits nicely with the Cybersecurity Basics badge. In fact, our agenda above, with just a little tweak, meets the second and third requirements for the Cybersecurity Basics Daisy badge. Your scouts will learn about protecting something valuable while learning about public vs private information.

They will also learn about communities, which you can easily add in step 3 of the Cybersecurity Basics badge. Ask your daisies how computers form a community? Then discuss how computers are connected to each other on a network. Your daisies may already understand this because they might send emails, text messages, and post pictures online.

Cybersecurity Safeguards

All of Cybersecurity Safeguards can be worked into the Daisy Digital Leadership badge. Simply add in a discuss of the girl’s identify when choosing items for their paper bags to complete step one.

Step two is all about finding out which information is private, which you have done by sharing the items that the girls put into their paper bags and sorting into public information and private information.

When discussing private information, be sure to talk about getting permission to share this information with others in person, but not online. The people that the daisies can share this information with are in their circle of trust. These include family members, family friends, some friends of the child, and people in authority like police officers, firefighters, teachers, etc. This will meet the third and final requirement to earn the Daisy Cybersecurity Safeguards badge.

Cybersecurity Investigator

The Cybersecurity Investigator Daisy badge is the last of this series and a nice extension to the skills learned in the Daisy Digital Leadership badge. You can easily add these three steps into the above meeting or plan these for a separate follow up meeting. In this badge the scouts will learn about asking the right questions when searching the interest, using clues to figure out differences, and testing your powers of observation.

Coding Basics

This badge takes the knowledge gained during the Digital Leadership Daisy badge one step further into the world of algorithms. Algorithms may sound a little overwhelming if you are not a math and science minded person, but with a little help they can be super fun for your daisies. This app is earned with using any technology.

Digital Game Design

The Digital Game Design Daisy badge pushes the girls to use algorithms to create a maze game which would be using their digital leadership skills. The daisies can do this entire badge without any technology, however, we love to incorporate Bee Bots or other coding games whenever we can.

App Development

The Daisy App Development badge takes this another step further by using technology to solve a problem through an app. Again this badge can be earned without an technology, instead working with paper and pencil.

What Robots Do?

While the Daisy What Robots Do? badge doesn’t fit into the same meeting as the Digital Leadership badge, it is a great extension if your Daisy Girl Scouts are interested in technology. The scouts can learn more about robots and what they do. Throughout the series, the girls will build their own robot, which is a form of digital leadership.

How Robots Move?

The How Robots Move? Daisy badge pairs nicely with the Daisy Coding Basics badge discussing algorithms and putting algorithms to use. So when planning either of these meetings, we suggest taking a look at both Daisy badges.

Design a Robot

The Daisy Design a Robot badge is the final badge in the Robotics series and is the perfect wrap up to putting the girls digital leaderships skills in practice. The girls will use their knowledge of digital leadership and robots to design a robot that solves an everyday problem.

Democracy for Daisies

The Democracy for Daisies badge extends the concept of community by exploring the scouts local, state and national government. If your scouts are struggling to understand community, this would be a great badge to introduce the concept of community.

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What a fantastic dive into the online digital world and the best part, the troop was excited to tackle more digital Daisy badges as well! Just remember that they are learning so much of this in school as well, so try to keep these badges more activity oriented and find out what your scouts already know before you begin. Our girls loved earning this daisy badge.

Please check out our other Daisy Girl Scout meeting ideas for earning Daisy petals, Daisy badges, and Daisy journeys. Plus we have planned out a Bridging to Brownies and First Daisy Girl Scout Meeting. Leave a comment below and let us know if you’ve tried the Daisy Digital Leadership badge. What worked well for you? What would you have tried differently? Did your girls love these activities as much as ours? If you are looking for more Girl Scout content, join our growing Creating Butterflies families for more ways to simplify Girl Scouting and earn badges while getting the girls outdoors.

Hi, I’m Nicole.

Here at Creatingbutterflies we provide families with practical solutions to real life problems for everything parenting, scouting, dual language, and enjoying time outdoors. We are a family of 6 with 4 wonderful becoming bilingual children who loves scouting, camping, and hiking with their family. Mom is an educator and dad is a firefighter/paramedic.

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