Activity Instructions
Activity Title
El bienestar y la tecnología
Description:
In this lab, students will evaluate how social media affects their wellbeing and describe how they feel about certain current events.
Proficiency Level:
Intermediate Mid
Keywords:
Social media, smartphone, technology, wellbeing
World-Readiness Standards:
- Standard 1.1 Students engage in conversations, provide and obtain information, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions.
- Standard 1.2 Students understand and interpret spoken and written Spanish on a variety of topics.
- Standard 1.3 Students present information, concepts, and ideas in Spanish to an audience of listeners or readers on a variety of topics.
- Standard 2.2 Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the products and perspectives of Hispanic cultures.
Idaho Content Standards for World Languages:
- COMM 1.1 - Interact and negotiate meaning (spoken, signed, written conversation) to share information, reactions, feelings, and opinions
- COMM 2.1 - Understand, interpret, and analyze what is heard, read, or viewed on a variety of topics.
- COMM 3.1 - Present information, concepts, and ideas to inform, explain, persuade, and narrate on a variety of topics using appropriate media in the target language.
NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:
- I can discuss technology use and social media in my culture and others
- I can exchange opinions about the ways we use phones in our personal and school or work lives
- I can exchange preferences, feelings, or opinions and provide basic advice on a variety of familiar and unfamiliar topics
- I can present my reactions to a current event and explain what led to the event being in the news
Materials Needed:
Warm-up
1. Begin by introducing the Can-Dos for today’s activity and opening the Google Slideshow.
2. Have students go into breakout rooms and discuss the warm-up questions.
- “Ahora, van hablar con sus parejas sobre las preguntas del calentamiento en los breakout rooms.”
Main Activity
1. Divide the students into 3 different and split them into breakout rooms for 8 minutes.
- Grupo 1 = Los profesores
- Grupo 2 = Los estudiantes
- Grupo 3 = Médicos
Read the following scenario to your students:
- “Francia, como país, ha decidido prohibir los aparatos electrónicos en la escuela primaria. El presidente de Boise State escuchó estas noticias y ahora quiere hacer lo mismo en nuestra universidad. Van a participar en grupo para dar una recomendación al presidente sobre esta idea nueva.”
3. Cada grupo va a tener 7-10 minutos para llegar a un acuerdo, y crear unos puntos que pueden usar para defender su opinión. Deben añadir los puntos a Google Slides con el dispositivo que tiene el número de su grupo.
4. OPTIONAL: Use the timers on the PowerPoint to keep track of time.
- 8 minutes for the groups to come up with their points whether they agree with removing technology from Boise State or not.
- 1 minute for them to share their views.
5. Como un grupo, van a votar por el grupo que presentó el mejor argumento. (Usa el caja de chat)
Wrap-up
- ¿Que piensan de los beneficios y los problemas de las redes sociales y la tecnología?
End of lab:
- Read Can-Do statements once more and have students evaluate their confidence. (Use thumbs up/thumbs down or download our student cards.)
- Encourage students to be honest in their self-evaluation.
- Pay attention, and try to use feedback for future labs!
NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:
- I can discuss technology use and social media in my culture and others
- I can exchange opinions about the ways we use phones in our personal and school or work lives
- I can exchange preferences, feelings, or opinions and provide basic advice on a variety of familiar and unfamiliar topics
- I can present my reactions to a current event and explain what led to the event being in the news