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Digital Life 101

  • learn about the 24/7, social nature of digital media.

  • explore their digital lives.

  • learn that it is important to act responsibly when carrying out relationships over digital media.

Strategic Searching

  • understand the importance of using a variety of search strategies.

  • master new strategies for effective and efficient online searches.

  • learn to create and execute a five-step plan for conducting an online search.

Scams & Schemes

  • understand what identity theft is and why it is important to guard against it.

  • learn to recognize strategies that scam artists use to access private information.

  • learn how to guard against phishing and identity theft

Cyberbullying:
Be Upstanding

  • reflect on what it means to be brave and stand up for others offline and online.

  • learn to show empathy for those who have been cyberbullied.

  • generate multiple solutions for helping others when cyberbullying occurs.

A Creator's Rights

  • understand that copyright is a legal system that protects their rights to creative work.

  • compare different ways people license their copyrighted work.

  • create an original song, perform it in front of the class, and reflect on their copyright for the song.

My Media

  • assess how much time they spend with media activities.

  • record and compare the time they spend with different forms of digital media (cell phones, Internet, etc.) and in different activities (texting, posting, and watching or creating videos).

  • formulate a viewpoint on the role that digital media play in their lives.

A Creator's Responsibility

  • consider ethical questions about real-life decisions young creators make in exercising their creative rights and responsibilities.

  • understand that piracy and plagiarism are irresponsible and disrespectful behaviors that have ethical and legal implications.

  • brainstorm solutions to dilemmas creators might encounter.

Safe Online Talk

  • describe positive aspects of online talking and messaging.

  • identify situations in which flirting and chatting become inappropriate and risky.

  • understand rules for safe online messaging, and feel empowered to deal with uncomfortable situations when communicating online.

Which Me Should I Be?

  • reflect on the benefits and risks of presenting their identities in different ways online.

  • evaluate – from an ethical point of view – the feelings, motivations, contexts, and possible outcomes associated with adopting different roles online.

  • judge whether certain ways people present themselves online are harmless or harmful.

Gender Stereotypes 
Online

  • define gender stereotypes and their impact on people’s identities, both online and offline.

  • identify gender stereotypes in a virtual world for kids.

  • analyze opportunities and limitations for gender expression in virtual worlds.

Trillion Dollar Footprint

  • define gender stereotypes and their impact on people’s identities, both online and offline.

  • identify gender stereotypes in a virtual world for kids.

  • analyze opportunities and limitations for gender expression in virtual worlds.

Identifying High Quality Sites

  • understand how the ease of publishing on the Internet might affect how much they can trust the content of some sites.

  • learn criteria that will help them evaluate websites.

  • apply the criteria to a site to determine how trustworthy and useful it is.

The Reality of Digital Drama

  • reflect on their own impressions of digital drama.

  • compare underlying messages about drama on reality TV with “real world” digital drama among young teens.

  • think critically about the gender stereotypes associated with drama.

Cyberbullying: Crossing the Line

  • analyze online bullying behaviors that “cross the line.”

  • learn about the various ways that students can be cyberbullied, including flaming, deceiving, and harassing.

  • adopt the point of view of teens who have been cyberbullied, and offer solutions.

Rework, Reuse,
Remix

  • identify the key points required for a creative work to fall under fair use.

  • judge whether or not the two case studies can be called fair use.

  • understand the value of fair use by reworking and remixing copyrighted material in a collage or video.

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