Jen+Bond-Online+Safety+Lesson+Plan

**Digital Literacy ** **Lesson #4 ** **Question: ** Digital Literacy is the process of teaching, learning, and using technology. What is the appropriate way to use new technology and teach students how to use it appropriately?
 * __Online Safety __**

**Overview:** In this lesson, you will learn to make appropriate decisions when sharing information online through web sites, chat, and email. **Time: ** Two, 40 minute class periods

**Objectives: ** Students will learn how to use technology quickly and appropriately through the use of scenarios.

**Materials: ** Small groups, Computer, 9 Themes of Digital Citizenship, Website Videos

**Activity:** You've been asked to write a column for the school newspaper called "Dear Netty." Students are sending in questions about online behavior and using the internet. Your task is to write a reply for the "Dear Netty" column of the school newspaper for the letter you are assigned. Make sure to reference the information of appropriate or inappropriate and why. Also use the 9 Digital Citizenship Elements. You will use Word to respond to the letter as if you are the newspaper columnist. Drop into angel when complete. You will be sharing your letter with the class.

**Letter 1:** Dear Netty, First of all, let me tell you how awesome my new MacBook computer is! I use it all the time for helping with my school work. It's so easy to copy answers from the Internet and to share answers with my friends that I hardly spend any time doing my homework anymore! Now, here's my question: I want to learn how to copy movie DVDs (especially my collection of Transformer cartoons!) to my computer so that I can make copies for all my friends. That way instead of loaning out my copies, they can all just have a copy of their own to keep. Can you help me find a way to do this using my computer? <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Thanks! <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">A. Student

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">**Letter 2:** Dear Netty, <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">How's it going? I heard you are a fashion fanatic, so I thought you might be able to help me with my question. I met this really great guy online a couple of weeks ago and we've been emailing and IMing each other every day. He's my age and goes to a school near here. We have the same taste in music and from the picture he sent me, he looks really cute! We're planning to meet next week outside the mall and I can't figure out what to wear. Should I borrow an outfit from a friend or ask my mom for money to buy something new? She doesn't know we're meeting, so I guess I'll have to make up some reason I need the money. Please help me decide what I should wear!! <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Yours truly, <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">A. Student II

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">**Letter 3:** Dear Netty, <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">I need your help big time! One of my friends asked me for my Studywiz password and I gave it to him. Now, some of the kids around school are complaining about messages they got that say really nasty things about them. The worst part is that it looks like the messages came from me! I didn't send them, and when I asked my friend about it, he smiled and said "Funny, huh?" I DON'T think it's funny and now no one will talk to me. <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">I want to give him a taste of what it feels like to have someone say mean things about you, so I'm going to send out messages to all the students about him. Can you think of some really good put-downs I can use in my messages? <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Your friend (really), <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">A. Student III

**<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Critical Thinking: **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Pretend that you are a newspaper columnist. It is your job to respond to one of the Dear Netty questions given in class. Your letter must include complete sentences and be at least two paragraphs in length. Here are examples of critical thinking questions to be answered together in class. <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">How can you be smart with Social Networking? <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Do you really know who’s online? <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">How easy is it to find someone?

**<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Assessment: **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Student Dear Netty responses will be shared, discussed, and critiqued during the next class.

**<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Homework: **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Students will use their computer to watch the videos about appropriate use of the Internet.

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**<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Accommodations: **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Student’s without access to a computer, at home, may check out a laptop or work during their study hall. Also small groups will be assigned, at random, giving each group a fair advantage when discussing and presenting the topic.

**<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Connections to Friere’s 7 Steps: ** <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Theory of Learning: Friere states that learning is a process where knowledge is presented to us, then shaped through understanding, discussion, and reflection. <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Just as construction worker requires a collection of tools and instruments, without which they cannot build up a wall, students who are introduced to new technology must be taught appropriate versus inappropriate ways to use it to their success.

**<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Standards: ** <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">HS.11 <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Select the appropriate resources needed to produce and operate communication, construction, manufacturing, transportation, and other technological systems and artifacts. <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">HS.16 <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Select the appropriate devices and systems to meet personal and societal needs.

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">HS.16.C <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">Select the optimum tools or systems to complete a task <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">HS.16.D <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">Apply common technology practices <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">S.16.E <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">Identify how various tools or equipment solve personal or societal needs

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">HS.19.C <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Identify how technology impacts individuals, society, and the environment

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">HS.19.F <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Assess the advantages and disadvantages of emerging technologies