Name
The Impact of social media
Topic
Computer science
Learning time
4 hours
Designed time
4 hours and 5 minutes
Size of class
24
Description
Students will explore the impact of social media in real life. They will involve in a critical thinking about pro and cons of social media, about the difference in privacy settings and netiquette.
Aims
Critical thinking: sensitize students, teachers and parents about social media and how to use them to become better digital citizens. Collaboration; Communication; creating and innovating. Improve digital skills.
Outcomes
Find out/discover, Describe reasons for, Assemble, Compare (and contrast), Design, Criticise, Be responsive to, Perform
Editor
federica
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Pupils' age: 12 - 15 Fase 1: Discussion and creation of a survey about the impact of social media.
90 minutes)
  • Discuss
    15
    24
    0
    Discussion in plenary session about the survey questions. The survey should investigate: - what are the most common social media used. - what are the social media pro and cons.
  • Produce
    15
    24
    0
    Survey creation using Google form and sending it by the digital school book to all the school staff: students, teachers and parents.
  • Collaborate
    20
    20
    1
    Pupils will be divide in 2 group: 1. pro social media group 2. cons social media group using the survey data and also their opinions pupils have to prepare a debate about the pro and cons of social media in their community and modern society. Pupils with the teacher will arrange a rubric to follow to assess the debate. There's an example on the attached find online.
  • Practice
    30
    24
    0
    Pro and cons groups will face each other trying to assert their reasons. Teacher will be the moderator. 4 pupils and if possible other 1/2 teachers will be the audience and they should judge who will win the debate. The assessment should be consider who have better expressed their reasons without considering their own opinion about the topic.
  • Produce
    10
    2
    Pupils create a slide presentation about the social media pro and cons. OUTCOMES: you can find many outcomes on line: documents and images. See the attached.
Notes:
Resources linked: 0
Fase 2: Investigate the most popular social media privacy setting.
40 minutes)
  • Read Watch Listen
    5
    24
    0
    Using the survey data pupils have to extrapolate the 4 most common social media used by the school staff.
  • Investigate
    15
    24
    0
    Pupils dived in 4 group, one for each social media, will analyze the privacy settings of the social media.
  • Produce
    20
    24
    0
    Each group will produce a digital report about the privacy setting explaining how they work and how you have to run them for a best privacy safe. The digital report could make as a slide presentation, a video or a slideshow.
Notes:
Resources linked: 0
Fase 3: Social media netiquette
60 minutes)
  • Discuss
    20
    24
    1
    In plenary session pupils will be invite to discuss about a right behavior on a social media. What they think is right to do and what not. What is legally and what not. Teacher should introduce what is the digital footprint, maybe showing some video. All the points will be write down on the board.
  • Collaborate
    15
    24
    0
    In plenary session pupils should think of a netiquette to follow using social media, collaborating to write down their own netiquette.
  • Produce
    25
    24
    0
    Pupils divided in group should create a: - digital poster. - a printable brochure. - a video. about the netiquette LIKELY OUTCOMES: Netiquette is a guideline for appropriate behavior using internet. - respect the other people's feeling; - respect others' privacy. - use appropriate languages. - use good grammar and spelling. - do not plagiarism. - Do not share your personal data such as address, phone number, parents' name ect.. - if you feel uncomfortable with something ask to your parents. - don't agree to meet people face to face without speaking with your parents. - understand what are cyberbullying and cyberstalking and contrast them. - ect .... ect ...
Notes:
Resources linked: 0
Fase 4: Running a Social media
55 minutes)
  • Read Watch Listen
    10
    24
    0
    Teacher show some Facebook page well made and useful for different reasons.
  • Practice
    15
    24
    0
    Pupils will create a Facebook page. On the home page should be explained: - the Facebook page has been created to show how social media could be useful to communicate with peers, teachers and parents sharing ideas, resources, school helps, happy moments happened in school. - the netiquette created posting the digital poster and the video. - the privacy setting instruction for Facebook and for the most common social media used. Pupils are divide in groups: - FB administrators. - FB moderator. - FB reporter. Every month the roles could change.
  • Collaborate
    30
    24
    0
    Presentation on the Facebook page. Using the digital school book pupils will show the Facebook page and invite parents and teachers to a meeting where they will explain: - what are the social media pro and cons. - the netiquette. - the Facebook page. and distribute their brochure.
Notes:
Resources linked: 0

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