AtL Skills & Digital Citizenship - September

I recently become AtL coordinator at my school, and as I used to be a librarian, I thought this would be an excellent chance to put some Digital Citizenship lessons into the homeroom curriculum. Luckily my school, The International School of Stuttgart, (which is great!) have been supportive of me to doing this .For some, I took the amazing new lessons from Common Sense Media, and added some AtL reflections to them.Some of them I also shortened, or added in other videos/exercises to make them suit the needs of our school more.  For others I used various websites and videos. 

So that I don't overwhelm you all with lists of lessons, I thought I would share them each month.
For September we only have two based on Common Sense Media Resources:

• Grade 7 - The Power of Digital Footprints [ATL: Communication Skills: Participate in, and contribute to, digital social media networks]
• Grade 7 - The Four Factors of Fair Use [Research: Information Literacy Skills: Understand and implement intellectual property rights]
  
  

For Grade 9 I have a session about negative social media use and their digital footprints - from simple things like sharing too much information, through to sharing embarrasing information!

• Grade 9 - Social Media Mis-Use - [ATL: Self-Management: Organisational Skills: “Select and use technology effectively and productively”]

The Grade 9 presentation contains the following videos:

• Ellen showing embarrassing social media posts made by her live television audience!
• Are You Living an Insta Lie? Social Media Vs. Reality
• Quit Social Media

All great for starting interesting class discussions!

Grade 10 mostly have Personal Project sessions during advisory, but I have made sure to add some linked to digital citizenship. Students are very good at knowing how to cite work in their essays/reports, and are used to creating MLA8 citations in NoodleTools. However, they sometimes struggle when using video clips, photographs and music in works they create, like videos. This activity will focus on this skill....and is pretty rad, as it contains photographs of my dog Ru!

• Grade 10 Fair Use- [ATL: Research Skills - Understand and implement intellectual property rights]

Although I didn't use much of Common Sense Media's resources for this one, I did use their video "Copyright and Fair Use Animation".

The current Grade 8s had a slight problem with staying on task when using laptops last year...so I made sure their digital Citizenship activity focuses on this!

In this activity they look at:

• the Marshmallow Test and compare it to gaming in class.
• How much YouTube is used every second
• The video "I forgot my Phone"
• and...if they have time, they can watch the "‘Video Game Addiction’ Officially Recognized by the World Health Organization" video and use this for a debate!

Grade 8 - Staying on Task [ATL Self: Management: Affective Skills: Practise strategies to overcome distractions]

• Lastly...I put together a last-minute activity for our Grade 8 and 9 students today (our MYP certificate assembly was moved to a later date, so we had a free advisory period). This is focussing on misleading headlines. I used the TED ED Video "Can you spot the problem with these headlines?​" as a starting point

Grade 8/9 - Misleading Headlines [ATL: Research Skills: “Demonstrate awareness of media interpretations of events and ideas”].

I wanted it to be relevant, so I have them discussing the news events that happened this summer, then they can look at the front pages of today's newspapers on the Newseum website, and by using Newspaper Map. I really wanted to flag up these two websites to the homeroom teachers and students - they are fantastic for seeing current events and also seeing different perspectives!

Here's the final list of all our September Digital Citizenship Resources.

• Grade 7 - The Power of Digital Footprints [ATL: Communication Skills: Participate in, and contribute to, digital social media networks]
• Grade 7 - The Four Factors of Fair Use [Research: Information Literacy Skills: Understand and implement intellectual property rights]
• Grade 8 - Staying on Task [ATL Self: Management: Affective Skills: Practise strategies to overcome distractions]
• Grade 8/9 - Misleading Headlines [ATL: Research Skills: “Demonstrate awareness of media interpretations of events and ideas”]. ​
• Grade 9 - Social Media Mis-Use - [ATL: Self-Management: Organisational Skills: “Select and use technology effectively and productively”]
• Grade 10 Fair Use- [ATL: Research Skills - Understand and implement intellectual property rights]

(Grade 6 are starting the year with the water challenge activity - they will have digital citizenship lessons next month!)
Let me know if you have any questions and share back if you use them :)