Digital Etiquette Lesson Plan: Digital Literacy
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This lesson accompanies the BrainPOP Jr. topic Digital Etiquette, and supports the standard of recognizing safe, appropriate, positive, and responsible online behavior and identifying strategies to combat negative online behavior. Students demonstrate understanding through a variety of projects.
Step 1: ACTIVATE PRIOR KNOWLEDGE
Ask students:
- How is communicating with \someone online different from in person? How is it similar?
Step 2: BUILD KNOWLEDGE
- Play the Digital Etiquette movie.
- Click the pause button each time a question appears in Annie’s Notebook and discuss it as a class. Then play to see how Annie answers it.
TIP: The pause button turns red to remind you to pause.
Step 3: APPLY and ASSESS
Students take the Easy Quiz or Hard Quiz, demonstrating what they learned about the topic while applying essential literacy skills.
Step 4: DEEPEN and EXTEND
Students express what they learned about digital etiquette while practicing essential literacy skills with one or more of the following activities. Differentiate by assigning ones that meet individual student or grade-level needs.
- Activity: Make a poster of digital etiquette rules.
- Talk About It: Identify how rules of an online classroom and an in-person classroom are alike and different.
- Write About It: Moby shares a photo online and gets a mean comment from a classmate. Explain how you think he feels and ideas of what you think he can do.
More to Explore
Technology Unit: Continue to build understanding around digital literacy by exploring more BrainPOP Jr. topics.
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