Students will discuss basic guidelines for maintaining privacy and security online. To help them internalize these rules, students will illustrate what it would mean to follow each guideline.
This lesson focuses on what it means to produce digital content and share information using online platforms.
As children use digital media with increasing frequency, advertisers who work with digital platforms continue to understand kids as an ideal target audience. Among other things, this means it is important to help children learn to read online ads sensibly and critically.
Designed for Adult Basic Education ESL levels 2-3, this is a Google Slides lesson to help students learn how to sign in to email and work on a Google Slide in English.
This lesson will engage students in the debate about the efficacy of social media as a tool for social change.
Students jump into learning how to spot fake news by playing a round of Factitious, the game. Next, they meet in groups to share strategies that helped them while playing the game. (A sample infographic of strategies is included, too.) Third, groups of students work together to be the first team to find all four fake news items in The Canadian Infiltration Fake News Game.
In this lesson, through discussion and presentation students will learn how to conduct productive research online, what valuable online resources look like, and what happens if they don't apply these strategies.
A range of online guides and modules that offer students essential information about the Library’s services, the digital learning environment and digital literacy skills, finding and evaluating sources of information, and academic writing and the assignment process.
The first video in series 5 Telecommunications. This introduction to telecommunications covers the foundations we need to know.
We look at the basics of electricity, as well as analog and digital signals.
Links from video:
-http://youtu.be/zYS9kdS56l8
-http://www.freemosquitoringtones.org/
In this video we take a look at how devices connect to each other. We take a quick look at the Open System Interconnect Reference Model (OSI), Coaxial cable, Twisted Pair Cable, and Fiber-optic Cable.
There are several types of wireless technologies that students and consumer need to know about In this video we look at:
-Bluetooth
-Cellular
-Wi-Fi
We take a look at types of computer networks. In part 1 we look at network topologies: bus, ring, star, and mesh.
We conclude out look at telecommunications and computer networks. We also give our list of additional resources to check out.
Links from Video:
-Wifi Analyzer https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.farproc.wifi.analyzer
-Cisco Networking Academy https://www.netacad.com/
-Monoprice http://www.monoprice.com
This digital literacy lesson plan was created by Stefanie Green as part of the 2020 NDE ELA OER Project. The attached Digital Literacy plan is designed for students in grades 9-12 and could be implemented in an English class or taught by a school librarian. The lesson will take approximately 45 minutes. View the interactive hyperdoc here: https://tinyurl.com/yxju58ku; © HyperDocs Remixed by @CrystalDawnEd; Remixed by Stefanie Green
This digital literacy lesson plan was created by Stefanie Green as part of the 2020 NDE ELA OER Project. The attached Digital Literacy plan is designed for students in grades 9-12 and could be implemented in an English class or taught by a school librarian. The lesson will take approximately 45 minutes. View the interactive hyperdoc here: https://tinyurl.com/yxju58ku; © HyperDocs Remixed by @CrystalDawnEd; Remixed by Stefanie Green
In this lesson, students will learn how different search engines work.
By learning about search algorithms, students will start to understand that the information they get from searching online does not simply materialize out of thin air! This understanding will enable students to critically evaluate search results.
In the age of Google and other search engines, this lesson aims to help students navigate how information comes to them through online search tools.
SummaryStudents will learn more about hacking and trolling in the online world. They will collaborate and build off others ideas and practice how to respond thoughtfully when creating discussions/posts/ comments. AccommodationsThis activity needs prior background that includes discussions about real news/fake news, what hacking truly means, and acting positive online, and digital literacy. This lesson allows for accommodations to be met through videos (close captioning) and completing commenting (recording it, using images/symbols). Articles/videos can be done together or independently. Images or symbols could be added to enhance learning (http://www.rcsthinkfromthemiddle.com/csi-color-symbol-image.html) Grade Level This lesson is for 5th grade and can be adjusted for younger or older students. Time duration Estimated time: One hour (or over 2 days). Teachers chose if they want to extend this activity. Teachers can divide students into groups & assign one article/video, allow them to decide, or do all based upon preference.Materials neededAccess to computers/tablets (earbuds/headphones) & google drive or other LMS systemPadlet link https://padlet.com/whitmanh1/fjp8ipdt8t6o--create separate padlets (copy/duplicate it) for multiple classesPrint an article or 2 in case the internet acts up, discussion questions posted at each table, examples of comments/responses that show 3 levels (target-exceeds, acceptable-meets, unacceptable- beginning/progressing) and rubric for self assessmentSchedule of Activities & decide on partner work (Table one does assignment #1, table two does #2, table three and four do #3, Table five does #4)
Upper Elementary aged students use this rubric to practice finding evaluation criteria and evaluating informational websites.