The class is a High School elective and has a mix of students from grade 9 to 12. This mix of student is ideal and allows shared learning. In the first 5 weeks we will have discussed and explained methods of research and the approach that our class will take to support the LU community with the final project. The students are busy with assignments and completing self inquiry practices that engage them in personal character development, with a focus on personal values.
In addition, students will develop a vision board, goals and strategies and begin to be aware of their professional online presence through various social media platforms. The approach employed is a project based learning strategy approach. Students gather real data from the LU community and then develop tools and messages that educate and provide research results on LU digital usage and awareness
By the end of this program students will:
In addition, students will develop a vision board, goals and strategies and begin to be aware of their professional online presence through various social media platforms. The approach employed is a project based learning strategy approach. Students gather real data from the LU community and then develop tools and messages that educate and provide research results on LU digital usage and awareness
By the end of this program students will:
- have developed the ability to conduct self-inquiry and understand self mastery
- develop programs that are age appropriate and educational in nature, through train-the-trainer lesson plans
- understand and work with project management techniques to achieve individual and team goals - excel and Gantt approaches
- conduct real research that supports the Learning Unlimited community as it relates to Digital Awareness while understanding the intricacies of digital awareness and responsibilities
- develop a professional online presence and understand the implications of effective personal branding
- continue to develop exceptional levels of work ethics, quality of work and personal goals and plans through team best practices
Course Outline Semester 1
PowerPoint 1: Citizenship | |
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PowerPoint 2: Conflict Resolution | |
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PowerPoint 3: Conservation | |
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PowerPoint 4: Courage | |
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PowerPoint 5: Decision Making | |
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PowerPoint 6: Endurance | |
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PowerPoint 7: Growth Mindset | |
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PowerPoint 8: Honesty | |
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PowerPoint 9: Leadership | |
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Semester Two
As
Assignment #1 Week of 4th Jan,2024
Research is the central part of every assignment .Before you start writing you should review these terms by reading about each topic or reviewing the power points posted above.
Explain the following terms with examples:
1.Citizenship
2.Conflict Resolution
3.Conservation
4.Endurance
5.Growth Mindset
Due on Friday, answers to be emailed.
SEMESTER #2
Digital Citizenship/Character Development. In this class we will cover issues of technology that are important issues. Through the practice of Action Inquiry, the students brainstorm key themes they will address and support the community with educational awareness programs. This work has the students investigating and researching areas that relate to digital literacy and character development. The focus on research is key to the academic approach and rigors required in continuing education. For example students conduct survey development, focus group facilitation and interview method of gathering data. The focus on process and project management tools, note taking, managing excel for data collection, provide students with essential skills for life.
Course Chapters-Links are working
Questions:
1. Summary of Chapter 1 (10 sentences)
2.Explain-Research is exposing “The Myth of Multitasking,” but students and teachers will often try to do more than one thing at a time.
3. Explain-https://pdsdigitalcitizenship.org/chapter-1-be-present/
NPR transcript on “the myth”
4.How & Why Students Use Technology Podcast?
Email answers by Friday.
Assignment #3 Week of 15th Jan, 2024
Questions:
1. Summary of Chapter 2 (10 sentences)
2. Explain -Pause before Posting or “PbP it”
3.“Privacy” has essentially two traditional meanings. Explain both the meanings.
4. Use:https://pdsdigitalcitizenship.org/chapter-2-nothing-is-private/
5.Explain the benefits of sharing information online and the potential risks of sharing inappropriate information.
Email answers by Friday.
Assignment # 4 Week of 22nd Jan,2024 Questions: 1. Summary of Chapter 3 (10 sentences)
2. Explain the following
https://pdsdigitalcitizenship.org/chapter-3-there-is-no-delete/
Assignment #4 Week of 29th Jan,2024
3.Discuss various benefits of giving the creator their credit.
3.Try this: For each item listed below, discuss whether the original creator needs to be attributed. Think about why it would be ok for you use their work without giving them credit and how you would give them credit if it is deserved.
Assignment #5 5th of Feb, 2024 Questions:
1. Write summary of Chapter 5 (10 sentences)
2. Explain -“Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson.
3. Explain your reaction :
What would you do?
No School-12th to 16th Feb
Assignment #6 Week of 19th Feb,2024 Questions:
1. Summary of chapter 6 (10 sentences)
2. Explain-“To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.”
– William Shakespeare
3. What did you learn from this link-https://www.slideshare.net/matt.scully/pbp-questions
4. https://www.slideshare.net/matt.scully/pbp-questions
post your results.
Assignment due on Friday.
Assignment#7 Week of 26th Feb,2024 Questions:
1. Summary of Ch 7 (10 sentences)
2. Explain- The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act or COPPA is federal law that sets strict rules for collection of any child’s personal information by any agency or online organization. By helping students develop safe habits now, we enable them to be strong digital citizens.
Assignment #8 Week of 4th March,2024
Assignment # 9 Week of 11th March,2024
Assignment #10 Week of 18th March 2024
Character Reflection
Assignment #11 Week of 25th March 2024
Daily Routine
Assignment #12 Week of 2nd April 2024
Characterization Essay
Assignment #13 Week of 9th April 2024
Avatar
Assignment #14 Week of 16th April 2024
Habit builder
Assignment #15 Week of 23th April 2024
Habit Builder + Copy rights
Assignment #16 Week of 10th May 2024
Aspiration Essay
Assignment #1 Week of 4th Jan,2024
Research is the central part of every assignment .Before you start writing you should review these terms by reading about each topic or reviewing the power points posted above.
Explain the following terms with examples:
1.Citizenship
2.Conflict Resolution
3.Conservation
4.Endurance
5.Growth Mindset
Due on Friday, answers to be emailed.
SEMESTER #2
Digital Citizenship/Character Development. In this class we will cover issues of technology that are important issues. Through the practice of Action Inquiry, the students brainstorm key themes they will address and support the community with educational awareness programs. This work has the students investigating and researching areas that relate to digital literacy and character development. The focus on research is key to the academic approach and rigors required in continuing education. For example students conduct survey development, focus group facilitation and interview method of gathering data. The focus on process and project management tools, note taking, managing excel for data collection, provide students with essential skills for life.
Course Chapters-Links are working
- Chapter 1: Be Present
- Chapter 2: Nothing is Private
- Chapter 3: There is No Delete
- Chapter 4: Credit Others
- Chapter 5: Manners Matter
- Chapter 6: Be Real
- Chapter 7: Protect Yourself
Questions:
1. Summary of Chapter 1 (10 sentences)
2.Explain-Research is exposing “The Myth of Multitasking,” but students and teachers will often try to do more than one thing at a time.
3. Explain-https://pdsdigitalcitizenship.org/chapter-1-be-present/
NPR transcript on “the myth”
4.How & Why Students Use Technology Podcast?
Email answers by Friday.
Assignment #3 Week of 15th Jan, 2024
Questions:
1. Summary of Chapter 2 (10 sentences)
2. Explain -Pause before Posting or “PbP it”
3.“Privacy” has essentially two traditional meanings. Explain both the meanings.
4. Use:https://pdsdigitalcitizenship.org/chapter-2-nothing-is-private/
5.Explain the benefits of sharing information online and the potential risks of sharing inappropriate information.
Email answers by Friday.
Assignment # 4 Week of 22nd Jan,2024 Questions: 1. Summary of Chapter 3 (10 sentences)
2. Explain the following
- Cookies can be bad or how cookies can impact your experience online
- Websites you visit collect information about you
- Even your school work tracks your changes and progress
- Your thoughts captured by simple two button process – Android or Apple
- we know you know it is that easy….but why do you keep forgetting?
- why aren’t you worried about screen captures of your posts?
- How hard is it to recover deleted files?
https://pdsdigitalcitizenship.org/chapter-3-there-is-no-delete/
Assignment #4 Week of 29th Jan,2024
- Chapter 4: Credit Others
- Questions: 1.Summary of chapter 4 ( 10 sentences)
3.Discuss various benefits of giving the creator their credit.
3.Try this: For each item listed below, discuss whether the original creator needs to be attributed. Think about why it would be ok for you use their work without giving them credit and how you would give them credit if it is deserved.
- Using an image from Google Image search in a classroom presentation.
- Using an image from Google Image search in a presentation at a Science Fair competition.
- Downloading music without paying for it.
- Downloading a song you don’t even like just for a single use at school event.
- Taking someone else’s picture and editing it for a school art project.
- Making a re-mix of a song or songs.
- Copying the style of an artist (music, art, acting) in your own performance.
- Putting a series of images together with your original voice-over explaining the importance of the images.
- Creating a birthday card for a friend using Disney images found in a google search.
- Creating a slideshow of images to play while you are reading a speech by Martin Luther King, JR.
Assignment #5 5th of Feb, 2024 Questions:
1. Write summary of Chapter 5 (10 sentences)
2. Explain -“Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson.
3. Explain your reaction :
What would you do?
- You receive an email from a friend that was meant for someone else.
- You are out sick and need to email your teacher to learn more about what happen in class. Write the email together.
- Your friend sends you an email. The last line is insulting, but there is a smiley face icon after that line.
- Is it ok to forward a message that was sent directly to just you to another friend?
- Friend posts something online that could hurt their reputation, but they don’t want to take it down. They think it is funny.
No School-12th to 16th Feb
Assignment #6 Week of 19th Feb,2024 Questions:
1. Summary of chapter 6 (10 sentences)
2. Explain-“To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.”
– William Shakespeare
3. What did you learn from this link-https://www.slideshare.net/matt.scully/pbp-questions
4. https://www.slideshare.net/matt.scully/pbp-questions
post your results.
Assignment due on Friday.
Assignment#7 Week of 26th Feb,2024 Questions:
1. Summary of Ch 7 (10 sentences)
2. Explain- The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act or COPPA is federal law that sets strict rules for collection of any child’s personal information by any agency or online organization. By helping students develop safe habits now, we enable them to be strong digital citizens.
Assignment #8 Week of 4th March,2024
Assignment # 9 Week of 11th March,2024
Assignment #10 Week of 18th March 2024
Character Reflection
Assignment #11 Week of 25th March 2024
Daily Routine
Assignment #12 Week of 2nd April 2024
Characterization Essay
Assignment #13 Week of 9th April 2024
Avatar
Assignment #14 Week of 16th April 2024
Habit builder
Assignment #15 Week of 23th April 2024
Habit Builder + Copy rights
Assignment #16 Week of 10th May 2024
Aspiration Essay