[DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP]

I. Topic/Grade Level: [#3 Digital Citizenship] [High School]

II.

Standards:
ISTE 1.b. Create original works as a means of personal or group expression.
ISTE 2.a. Interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others employing a
variety of digital environments and media.
ISTE 4.b. Plan and manage activites to develop a solution or complete a project.
ISTE 5.a. Advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information and
technology.
ISTE 6.a. Understand and use technology systems.

III.Goals and Student Learning Outcomes (Objectives):

Goal 1: Students will reflect on a video about a variety of digital citizenship issues.
Student Learning Outcome 1: Students will write a personal response to a video which
discusses a variety of issues related to digital citizenship.
Student Learning Outcome 2: Students will discuss within their group their response
to the video and form their own opinions regarding the video on digital
citizenship.
Goal 2: Students will watch and discuss a case study on digital citizenship and reflect on how
it applies to their lives.
Student Learning Outcome 1: Students will discuss the case study within their group
and answer 6 questions individually after discussing the questions as a group.
Goal 3: Student groups will select one of 2 activites and create a multimedia presentation.
Student Learning Outcome 1: Students will discuss what they learned from the case
study and create a multimedia presentation based on which activity they chose to
share with the class.
Student Learning Outcome 2: Students will share as a team with the class their
presentation.
IV.

Learning Environment(s):
Online lesson

V.

Resources:

Facilitators guide:
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/sites/default/files/digital_bytes_facilitators_guide.pdf

Students use this website to access the online lesson:

http://digitalbytes.commonsensemedia.org

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Additional resources for digital citizenship:
PBS 90 min. video:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/view/
Edutopia:
http://www.edutopia.org/article/digital-citizenship-resources
ISTE:
http://www.iste.org/docs/excerpts/DIGCI2-excerpt.pdf
VI.

Diversity / Differentiation:

This 10th grade class has 25 students with 14 females and 11 males. There are 2
ELL students and one student with autism.
To accommodate the ELL students, the videos will be watched with headphones
and translated into their native language using assistive technology.
The student with autism will be given the option to watch the video with
headphones.
For all students, the videos will be accessible to view as many times as necessary to
understand the content and learn at their own pace.
The online course will be available to students who are absent.
The learning style for this online lesson is auditory and social to encourage
interaction among the students. The social interaction and discussion is intended to
facilitate the students remembering what they learn.
Technology Inclusion:
This lesson depends heavily on technology to function. If the Internet is not
functioning, the lesson will have to be postponed for another day and a substitute
lesson will replace it.
This is an online lesson so all students will need a laptop with Internet connection
to view the videos and email their responses to questions to the teacher.

System requirements to use lesson plan: Tech Requirements

Browsers: Internet Explorer 9 and above; Chrome; Firefox; Safari.
Operating systems: Windows 7, Vista, and XP or Mac OS 10.5 or higher.
Streaming video: The site contains embedded videos from Vimeo. If your network
blocks Vimeo, you may need to show the videos on your personal device.
Video-recording devices
App- Educreations to create a screencast or other video presentation

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VII.

Prior Knowledge: This lesson will be repeated 8 times during the course of the year to
reinforce the issues of digital citizenship. Commonsensemedia divides the issues related to
digital citizenship into 8 topics. For the first lesson, no prior knowledge is needed, but
after the first lesson, the students will need to review the prior digital citizenship lesson to
connect it to the new lesson.
Lesson Placement in the Unit: This is lesson 1 of 8.

VIII. Procedures:
1. Lesson Introduction / Anticipatory Set:
The lesson will begin with a GoogleForm which asks the question: List 2 questions
that you have about your personal safety when using the Internet. The students will log
in to their Google accounts and open the email which contains the GoogleForm. They
will enter their questions and the questions will populate onto the GoogleSheet. The
GoogleSheet will be projected onto the Interactive White Board. This will help the
students identify which topics are important to them, plus by reading other students
questions, they will be exposed to questions they have not considered. Students will be
divided into groups of 3-4 students with the same topics of interest as much as possible.
2. Direct Instruction:
This is an online lesson, so the students will go to the website:
http://digitalbytes.commonsensemedia.org
and follow the instructions in the lesson. The teacher acts as facilitator.
First, students have 3 ways to decide on their topic. As a group, the students decide
which topic they will finish. They can choose the grid which offers the options of
pioneer, creator, doer, or thinker. Second, they can choose one of the four following
options: our generation, interpretation, activism, or innovation. Or third, they can
choose random and the topic will be chosen for them. The teacher needs to model this
process to avoid the confusion of the choices and to guide their decisions.
3. Student Interaction with lesson content / Guided Practice:
The online lesson contains reflective questions after a video, 6 questions that follow a
case study, and an activity to complete. The questions will be emailed to the teacher
and the activity will be assessed using a rubric.
4. Independent Practice:
The students will be divided into groups of 3-4 students. The groups will reflect
common interests in the variety of topics about digital citizenship. Common interests
will be determined by the answer to the question during the lesson introduction. The
group will complete one of the two activites described in the online lesson during class
time.

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5. Review / Closure:
Students will probably be at various stages of finishing their multimedia projects.
About 10 minutes before the end of class, students from each group will share
informally with the class what they learned about Internet safety. They will be
encouraged to share this information with their parents or guardians.
6. Presentations:
On Day 2 of this lesson, all the groups of students will share their presentations
formally with the class and discuss what they have learned. The teacher will facilitate
the discussion.
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X.

Evaluation/Assessment:
The formative assessments will be the reflective question and the 6 questions from the
case study which will be emailed to the teacher.
The summative assessment will use the activity chosen by the group. The activity
requires a multimedia presentation and the presentation will be graded by a rubric. At
the end of the Facilitators Guide (Appendix D), there is an Action Plan to complete
and the students should complete the Action Plan individually. Also in Appendix D is a
project evaluation which can be used as a rubric to evaluate the multimedia project.
Risk Analysis
Software risks: The students will be using the app, Educreations, and/or a video-recording
device to produce their multimedia presentation. Students could have problems using
Educreations so the teacher would need to be able to solve those navigation problems. The
teacher could also consult IT support prior to class for more information on how to use
Educreations.
Hardware risks: In the case of Internet failure, this lesson will have to be postponed
because the lesson in an online lesson. If the videos fail to load, the teacher can try to enter
the website through the Facilitators Guide instead of the address given to the students.
Also, the direct address of the Vimeo video is given in the Facilitators Guide.
Instructional risks: The students may have trouble navigating the website so the teacher
will need to model how to do that.

XI.

References: In APA, cite your references used in this lesson. This includes textbooks,
other literature, videos, websites, and any other sources.

Facilitators guide:
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/sites/default/files/digital_bytes_facilitators_guide.pdf