Nurturing Digital Wellness and Etiquette for Middle School Students
Explore the importance of maintaining a healthy digital balance and fostering positive online behaviors through lessons on digital footprints, social media usage, privacy protection, and responsible online citizenship. Encourage students to make informed decisions in the digital realm to lead a balanced and respectful digital life.
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The Permanency of the Digital Footprint Grade 6-8 Etiquette Lesson #1
Digital Wellness Big Idea Ensure students, at every grade level, have the tools, resources, and skills to interact personally, socially, and educationally in the real world and in digital spaces. Encourage all students to make safe, healthy, and positive decisions to live a digitally balanced life in our technology-rich world.
WELLNESS = BALANCE IS BEST I will maintain a balance between digital and face-to face interactions in life. Digital wellness refers to the state of one s physical and mental health in the Digital Age. It is making intentional decisions to improve the healthy use of technology. This does not mean eliminating technology from our lives BUT to balance its use with healthy face-face interactions. CITIZENSHIP = BE THE BEST YOU I will be responsible, ethical, honest and literate in today s digital world. ETIQUETTE = IT S COOL TO BE KIND I will choose to be positive with others online. SAFETY = BE AWARE I will be safe online and protect private information.
PREPARATION Video: Protecting Your Online Rep: Link in Slide #6 Digital Footprint definition: Slide #7 Print Graphic Novel: Link in Slide #8 Watch Jig Saw Method (Background): Link in Slide #8 Print Data Trail Chart: Link in Slide #9 Video: Information, Once it s Out There: Link in Slide #10 4
LEARNING INTENTIONS 3-1 INCREASED USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA SITES HAVE GREATLY ENLARGED NOT ONLY THE SIZE OF THE DIGITAL FOOTPRINT BUT THE POSSIBILITY OF LEAVING ONE THAT MAY NOT BE THE BEST DIGITAL TATTOO Understand how posting many little details can paint a big picture of who you are Explain why it can be impossible to delete a picture or comment once it has been posted online Suggest strategies to better protect privacy and navigate privacy issues in the online world Learn to be aware of the potential privacy risks of new digital communications technologies, such as those used for online gaming 5
ACTIVATE - VIDEO Watch the video below by clicking on the image. Protecting Your Online Rep 4:42
ACTIVATE - DEFINE What is a digital footprint ? Why is it so important that we are careful in what we leave behind (post, share, sites we visit, people we communicate with) ?
Document with solid fill Jig Saw Recording Sheet ACQUIRE JIG SAW 1.Hand out the Social Smarts graphic novel. Provide time for students to read. 2.Divide students into four groups and provide the following discussion material for them. 3.Using the Jig Saw method, have the students share their discussion material with each of the groups. Group A: Discuss what steps you can take to make sure that you have control of your online information. Why is it important to lock privacy settings and set strong passwords? Group B: Discuss how you can make sure that the information you post doesn t give the wrong impression of who you are in real life. What sort of information is best left offline? Group C: Discuss how you can learn about privacy risks of new technologies, such as online gaming devices, before you use them. Group D: Discuss the importance of taking steps to protect your privacy on mobile devices. Presentation with media with solid fill Jig Saw Method How much information could someone learn about you if you left your mobile phone on the bus and it wasn t protected? Open book with solid fill Graphic Novel 8
Link with solid fill Example Daily Data Trail APPLY BRAINSTORM /COMPLETE Document with solid fill Data Trail Chart TIME ACTIVITY INFORMATION COLLECTED Using the worksheet provided, create a timeline of your screen time activity use for ONE FULL DAY. Indicate the TIME, the ACTIVITY (reason why text, phone call, social media post, picture, downloading an app, listening to music, using phone to pay online, web surfing, using online app, purchasing items online, etc) AND the type of INFORMATION that is collect and the IMPLICATIONs of this. Use the example to provide some clarity.
SUMMARY WATCH Information is much like toothpaste, once it s out there, you can t put it back. Click on the image to watch the video: Information: Once it s Out there You Can t Put it Back (:40) 10
Teacher Notes Take Home Resources Extension Activities Background My Privacy Every Day Data Trail Know about Digital Footprints Staying Safe on Social Media Needs to What Every Teen Digital Footprint Tips for Managing Activity Extension The 10 Tips discuss each of the the 10 Tips to Protect Your Privacy Online that are listed on the back of the graphic novel. Create a short PSA much like the Toothpaste one. Create a graphic novel that could be an informational document for other teens. Do a Google search of themselves. Privacy Education for Kids (Canada) My Privacy Every Day Data Trail Privacy Education for My Privacy Every Day Data Trail Staying Safe on Social Media What Every Teen Needs to Know about Digital Footprints Tips for Managing Digital Footprint Extension Activity My Privacy Every Day Data Trail Staying Safe on Social Media What Every Teen Needs to Know about Digital Footprints Tips for Managing Digital Footprint Extension Activity Privacy Education for Kids (Canada) My Privacy Every Day Data Trail Kids (Canada) My Privacy Every Day Data Trail My Privacy Every Day Data Trail Staying Safe on Social Media What Every Teen Needs to Know about Digital Footprints Tips for Managing Digital Footprint What Every Teen Needs to Know about Digital Footprints
