Digital Citizenship

COLLABORATIVE DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP LESSON
OVERVIEW OF LESSON:
Woodland Middle School has 15 students who are Dual Enrolled at the local high school. Here they spend half
their day taking high school classes receiving high school credit. The other half of the day they are back at
school. I decided they would be the perfect candidates for my lesson because they have an hour and 30
minutes of study hall and their advisor is our Tag ( Talented and Gifted) Coordinator Mrs. Holland. She is a
decorated TAG teacher who has devoted over 3o years of service to educating TAG kids. Ms. Holland takes
interest in learning instructional technology tools and skills. We sat down together to discuss in the future we
want to use our Dual Enrolled students as a pilot for our digital citizenship classes. We wanted our first
lesson together to be something that would be impactful and something they would enjoy.
We decided on a
lesson about the Digital Footprint. We felt this would be important because it is the most relevant to our
students and things they deal with in their personal lives such as what you post on social media. The idea
came when a student left their Edmodo account active on a device, another student posted an inappropriate
statement on a class page, another situation occurred where someone created an Instagram page putting
pictures of girls who were considered not so nice girls on blast.
TITLE OF
UNIT
GRADE
TEACHERS
TIME FRAME
Digital Footprint
8th/9th grade
Mrs.
Johnson
Mrs.Holland
and
Digital Footprint: 1 hour 30 minutes

minute Lessons
Standard 4
DigitalCitizenship&Responsibility
Candidates demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to model and promote digital citizenship and responsibility.
Element 4.1 Digital Equity - Candidates model and promote strategies for achieving equitable access to digital tools and resources and
technology-related best practices for all students and teachers.
Element 4.2 Safe, Healthy, Legal & Ethical Use - Candidates model and facilitate the safe, healthy, legal, and ethical uses of digital
information and technologies.
Element 4.3 Diversity, Cultural Understanding & Global Awareness - Candidates model and facilitate the use of digital tools and
resources to support diverse student needs, enhance cultural understanding, and increase global awareness
Understandings:
Students understand the importance of creating a positive digital profile
Students learn how to create and maintain a positive digital profile
Essential Questions:
Why is a digital profile essential in todays world?
Where are you creating your digital profile?
What does your digital profile say about you?
What safety measures can you take to monitor your digital profile?
Materials Needed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNWqqmZQ3LY
Cellphone/mobile devices
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/archive/news/uni-throws-facebook-at-revellers/story-e6frg6to1111113981597
http://chronicle.com/blogPost/A-MySpace-Photo-Costs-a-Stu/2994/
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/news/internetprivacy/2006-03-08-athletes-websites_x.htm
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/TakeControlOfYourLife/Story?id=3171218&page=1
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/quickquestion/2006/march/popup2050.htm
PollEv.com/chaneljohnso493
http://www.cybersmart.gov.au/Kids/Get%20the%20facts/Digital%20footprint.aspx
http://www.woogiworld.com/
OPENING
Play the video for the entire class to see
Divide in teams of 3-4
Allow students to predict what may have happened to the girl by creating a story describing what the next 3 minutes of her life
may have happened.
LESSON:
Discuss in Small Group if you searched for your name what do you think you would find?
Allow students to search for their own name
Allow students to search the member of a family member or friend
Discuss in small group, who did you find? Who was the most visible? Why?
Groups will receive one of the following articles discuss your opinion about your article
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/archive/news/uni-throws-facebook-at-revellers/storye6frg6to-1111113981597
http://chronicle.com/blogPost/A-MySpace-Photo-Costs-a-Stu/2994/
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/news/internetprivacy/2006-03-08-athleteswebsites_x.htm
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/TakeControlOfYourLife/Story?id=3171218&page=1
https://www.priv.gc.ca/youth-jeunes/fs-fi/res/gn_e.pdf
Should Employers or colleges be able to use Profile pictures, comments etc. to make judgement about you? Take the poll here at this
link
PollEv.com/chaneljohnso493
Students will compare data with the class and compare with the world by answering your same poll question again at this link and
discover how you compare with others
Provide positive debate on why you chose the answer you chose.
ASSIGNMENT
Pretend we are time traveling back 1 week before our girl in the video meets up with her predator, Create An Infographic or
Imovie Trailer explaining to the young girl safety precautions she should use while online. Use this site to help, but you are free
to use other sites.
http://www.cybersmart.gov.au/Kids/Get%20the%20facts/Digital%20footprint.aspx
Assessment: answer all questions on our blog
Pick your primary social media tool ( facebook, Instagram, kik, etc)
Look at how many friends you have
Check out your privacy settings edit them if needed. What changes if any did you have to make?
How can social media have a positive or negative impact on your social life?
HOMEWORK:
With Parent Permission Please Create a Woggi account at
http://www.woogiworld.com/
Complete all 4 missions

Cyber Safety
Cyber Ethics
Cyber Security
Cyber Health
EXTENSION:
If approved by parents check out the new series CSI cyber we will discuss and apply our standards bases on what we see from the
episode.
REFLECTION
I enjoyed creating lessons for digital citizenships. The kids were very responsive and open about some of the
situations from the articles discussed. I could tell that the students took a big liking to the article about the
athlete and Facebook. Lots of discussions were opened up about being able to freely post what you want on
social media or not. This lesson gave Ms. Holland and I a chance to facilitate the lesson (that is what you
would want anyway) Once we had the lesson organized we let it run itself. The only issue we had with that
strategy was that we ran out of time. I didnt plan for the long open discussion. The discussions were going so
good that we didnt want to stop in the middle of the lesson. The extension assignment was really fun for the
kids because it allows us to set up for teaching different digital citizenship standards. This Digital Lesson
meant more to me than just an assignment, it is the development of something new for my school. We are in
the process of changing some connection classes and if I have it organized we could make a digital
citizenship class and make it blended.

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COLLABORATIVE DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP LESSON

Digital Footprint: 1 hour 30 minutes

Students understand the importance of creating a positive digital profile

Students learn how to create and maintain a positive digital profile

Why is a digital profile essential in todays world?

Where are you creating your digital profile?

What does your digital profile say about you?

Play the video for the entire class to see

Divide in teams of 3-4

Allow students to search for their own name

Allow students to search the member of a family member or friend

Assessment: answer all questions on our blog

Look at how many friends you have

Complete all 4 missions

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