- Author:
- Shawn Lee
- Liz Crouse
- Date Added:
- 06/07/2020
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Students will learn the potential costs and benefits of social media, digital consumption, and our relationship with technology as a society in the three-week lesson. This inquiry based unit of study will answer the following questions:
Essential Question: How can we use science fiction’s ability to predict the future to help humanity?
Supportive Questions 1: What predictions of future development has science fiction accurately made in the past? This can include technology, privacy, medicine, social justice, political, environmental, education, and economic.
Supportive Question 2: What predictions for future development in contemporary science fiction are positive for the future of humanity? What factors need to begin in your lifetime to make these predictions reality?
Supportive Question 3: What predictions for future development in contemporary science fiction are negative for the future of humanity? What factors need to begin in your lifetime to stop these negative outcomes?
- Subject:
- Education
- Material Type:
- Homework/Assignment
- Lesson
- Reading
- Unit of Study
- Author:
- Morgen Larsen
- Date Added:
- 07/13/2020
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This social media literacy unit introduces students to foundational skills in analyzing images and social media posts. It also reenforces critical thinking questions that can be applied to various forms of media. This unit was taught to 9th grade students but is easily adaptible to a range of secondary classrooms. It was also taught in conjunction with another unit focused on social media platforms and content.
- Subject:
- Communication
- Composition and Rhetoric
- Electronic Technology
- Graphic Arts
- Marketing
- Reading Informational Text
- Material Type:
- Assessment
- Homework/Assignment
- Lesson Plan
- Reading
- Unit of Study
- Author:
- Shana Ferguson
- Date Added:
- 12/30/2020
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This interactive lesson helps students understand how companies use algorithms to sort job applicants. It also encourages students to reflect on how digital data mining also can contribute to the hiring process. Students examine resumes and digital data to consider the ways in which our data may open or close opportunities in an increasingly digitized hiring market.
- Subject:
- Applied Science
- Business and Communication
- Computer Science
- English Language Arts
- Information Science
- Material Type:
- Lesson
- Date Added:
- 08/05/2019
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In this lesson, students will define their dominant roles online, explain the benefits of each type of online role and discuss the responsibilities and risks inherent in each type of online interaction. This lesson is part of a media unit curated at our Digital Citizenship website entitled "Who Am I Online?"
- Subject:
- Communication
- Educational Technology
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Lesson Plan
- Author:
- Beth Clothier
- John Sadzewicz
- Dana John
- Angela Anderson
- Date Added:
- 06/11/2020