Lesson Plan Map Elementary Cycle 2
This lesson plan map is a series of suggested lessons and supporting materials to help with the teaching and learning of digital citizenship. Each section covers one of the nine themes proposed in the Digital Citizenship Initiative. Please feel free to use or adapt the content as much or as little as you need.
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Objectives
Respect, Protect & Educate
Online communication uses technology to exchange information.
This includes:
- Communicating effectively and appropriately using different platforms in order to get your message across effectively
- Knowing your audience and addressing it appropriately and respectfully
- Collaborating with others respectfully and using collaborative tools that can complement the process
- Understanding and using social media responsibly as a communication, collaboration and content-sharing tool
Suggested Lessons
Additional Lessons (Optional)
Blogging in the Elementary Classroom? Yes indeed!
Tools
Are you Web Aware? Checklist for students
CyberSense and Nonsense: The Second Adventure of The Three CyberPigs
Student Resources
Useful Links
Skype in the Classroom (Overview, lessons, resources and more)
Professional Development
Digital badges for online communication: Communicator Ninja
Teacher's Guide: CyberSense and Nonsense: The Second Adventure of The Three Cyberpigs
Parent Resources
Digital badge for parents to learn more about online communication: Communicator Ninja
Are you Web Aware? Checklist for parents
Family Tip Sheet: Common Sense on Effective Email Communication
Objectives
Respect, Protect & Educate
Online safety is protecting not only oneself and others but also one’s devices from potential risks and dangers.
This includes applying the best practices as an Internet user in regards to:
- sharing personal information
- safe passwords
- stranger danger
- computer safety
Useful Links
Professional Development
Digital badges for information literacy: Security Superhero
Parent Resources
Digital badge for parents to learn more about online safety: Security Superhero
Objectives
Respect, Protect & Educate
Copyright is the right to reproduce in whole or in part a work in any form. Plagiarism means taking someone’s work and claiming it as your own.
This includes:
- Understanding your rights and responsibilities in regards to the Internet and other media
- Using content online and sharing it in a responsible legal and ethical manner
- Understanding and using social media responsibly as a communication, collaboration and content-sharing tool
Suggested Lessons
Please note: (US Fair Use is similar but not the same as Canadian Fair Dealing- for more info please click this link)
Additional Lessons (Optional)
Useful Links
Professional Development
Digital badges for copyright and plagiarism: Copyright Commander
Parent Resources
Digital badge for parents to learn more about copyright and plagiarism: Copyright Commander
Objectives
Respect, Protect & Educate
A digital footprint is a trail of information about an individual that can be found online.
This includes:
- Understanding and using social media responsibly as a communication, collaboration and content-sharing tool
- Demonstrating the importance of building a positive online personal profile and the concept of a traceable digital footprint
Professional Development
Digital badges for digital footprint: Digital Dynamo
Parent Resources
Digital badge for parents to learn more about digital footprint: Digital Dynamo
Objectives
Respect, Protect & Educate
Well-being means feeling good both physically and psychologically.
This includes:
- Understanding how to balance the use of technology with other elements in your life and work online in a healthy way
- Understanding the realities of others, encouraging the development of empathy, promoting acceptance as well as eliminating stereotypes
Suggested Lessons
Balancing Time Online (Please download lesson under Middle Primary School)
Student Resources
Professional Development
Digital badges for physical and psychological well-being: DigiZen
Teacher's Guide: CyberSense and Nonsense: The Second Adventure of The Three Cyberpigs
Parent Resources
Digital badge for parents to learn more about physical and psychological well-being: DigiZen
Talking Tips (NeedHelpNow)
Objectives
Respect, Protect & Educate
Cyberbullying is using technology to intimidate or threaten a person.
This includes:
- Responding to an preventing cyberbullying directed at yourself and others
- Understanding how to deal with unwanted or aggressive attention online
Useful Links
Information on cyberbullying (Get Cyber Safe Canada)
Cyberbullying (RCMP)
Cyberbullying Resources (WITS)
Professional Development
Digital badges for cyberbullying: Protector of the Realm
Parent Resources
Digital badge for parents to learn more about cyberbullying: Protector of the Realm
Information on Cyberbullying for Parents (Get Cyber Safe Canada)
Parenting the Digital Generation (Tutorial)
Objectives
Respect, Protect & Educate
Advertising and marketing is using publicity to persuade individuals to buy either through the promotion of a product, a service or an idea.
This includes:
- Understanding commercial intention and the advertising of goods & services
- Understanding the realities of others, encouraging the development of empathy, promoting acceptance as well as eliminating stereotypes
Professional Development
Digital badges for advertising and marketing: Ad Superagent
Parent Resources
Digital badge for parents to learn more about advertising and marketing: Ad Superagent
Objectives
Respect, Protect & Educate
Online buying and selling is the giving and receiving of something in exchange for an agreed upon price.
This includes:
- Consumer awareness when buying and selling
- Applying the best practices as an Internet user in regards to sharing personal information and safe passwords
Useful Links
Online Shopping (Canadian Consumer Handbook)
Online Shopping and Auctions (Get Cyber Safe Canada)
Professional Development
Digital badges for online buying and selling: Chief Consumer
Parent Resources
Digital badge for parents to learn more about online buying and selling: Chief Consumer
Online Shopping (Canadian Consumer Handbook)
Objectives
Respect, Protect & Educate
“Information literacy is a set of abilities requiring individuals to ‘recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information.’” (ALA, ACRL)
This includes:
- Being able to recognize when there is a need for information
- Having the ability to locate and evaluate the information using effective strategies
- Using and/or sharing the information effectively, ethically and legally
Information literacy is a component of digital citizenship. In this digital era, we often seek information and media online. Therefore, we need to ensure that we are safe, critical and responsible when seeking, using or sharing content. It is important that we give our students opportunities to practice many of their digital citizenship skills in authentic activities.
Lesson Plan Map
Professional Development
Digital badges for information literacy: Information Guru
Parent Resources
Digital badge for parents to learn more about information literacy: Information Guru
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