This week I began to really hammer out my idea for this PBL lesson. Like I mentioned last time, I decided to focus on Digital Citizenship and Online Safety, specifically within social media. Going through the PBL checklist this week, I'm certain that I will be able to cover everything on it, and then some! While starting to plan out my lesson, we were assigned to watch this video, about teachers planning a PBL lesson over watersheds. Watching this video really helped me get in the right mindset for creating my own PBL lesson:
After watching this video and reading through the resources our professor provided for us, the ideas were finally starting to flow quickly. You can see my project being developed via this Google Site Link, but below I've pasted the main outline that I've begun creating:
Project Name: Improving Digital Citizenship and Online Safety in Social Media
Teacher(s): Michael Karlin
Subjects/Grade Level: 7th & 8th Grade Technology Class
-English, Math, and Health class will also be incorporated
Project Idea: By the end of this project, students will have created a blog or website complete with research on, and ideas for improving digital citizenship and online safety in social media. Students will conduct research, create surveys, analyze case-studies, give presentations, and collaborate with local and global peers. For their culminating assessment, using the information and resources from the sites they created, students will design a school-wide plan to help improve digital citizenship and online safety. The plan will be presented to the principal, school director, and school board and, once approved, will be put into action across the campus.
Duration: 10-15 45-minute class periods.
ISTE NETS-S Standards to be Addressed:
Driving Question: In regards to social media, how can we improve digital citizenship and online safety both locally and globally?
Sub-Questions:
21st Century Skills:
Teacher(s): Michael Karlin
Subjects/Grade Level: 7th & 8th Grade Technology Class
-English, Math, and Health class will also be incorporated
Project Idea: By the end of this project, students will have created a blog or website complete with research on, and ideas for improving digital citizenship and online safety in social media. Students will conduct research, create surveys, analyze case-studies, give presentations, and collaborate with local and global peers. For their culminating assessment, using the information and resources from the sites they created, students will design a school-wide plan to help improve digital citizenship and online safety. The plan will be presented to the principal, school director, and school board and, once approved, will be put into action across the campus.
Duration: 10-15 45-minute class periods.
ISTE NETS-S Standards to be Addressed:
- 1.a: Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes.
- 1.d: Identify trends and forecast possibilities.
- 2.a: Interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others employing a variety of digital environments and media.
- 2.b: Communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats.
- 2.d: Contribute to project teams to produce originals works or solve problems
- 3.a: Plan strategies to guide inquiry
- 3.b: Locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and ethically use information from a variety of sources and media.
- 3.c: Evaluate and select information sources and digital tools based on the appropriateness to specific tasks.
- 3.d: Process data and report results
- 4.b: Plan and manage activities to develop a solution or complete a project.
- 4.c: Collect and analyze data to identify solutions and/or make informed decisions.
- 5.a: Advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information and technology.
- 5.b: Exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that supports collaboration, learning, and productivity.
- 5.d: Exhibit leadership for digital citizenship.
- 6.a: Understand and use technology systems.
- 6.b: Select and use applications effectively and productively.
Driving Question: In regards to social media, how can we improve digital citizenship and online safety both locally and globally?
Sub-Questions:
- What is digital citizenship?
- What types of social media do students most commonly use?
- What are ways students can stay safe online?
- What is cyberbullying and how can it be prevented?
- What are ways that you can help promote digital citizenship throughout the school?
- What are the current beliefs of your peers (local and global) about digital citizenship and online safety?
- What online habbits lead to poor digital citizenship and online safety?
- How do schools across the globe address the ideas of digital citizenship and online safety?
- What are specific strategies for facebook, twitter, instagram, and tumblr that can help students become better digital citizens?
- What are the best ways to respond when people are not being good digital citizens?
21st Century Skills:
- Information Media Literacy
- Technological Literacy
- Critical Thinking & Problem-Solving
- Creative Thinking
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Leadership
- Social
- Self-monitoring and Self-directing
- Project Management
- Ethics & Civic Responsibility