Digital Survival Skills Module 4: Teaching Digital Skills

Authors: Shawn Lee, Liz Crouse

Deepfakes: Exploring Media Manipulation

Students examine what deepfakes are and consider the deeper civic and ethical implications of deepfake technology. In an age of easy image manipulation, this lesson fosters critical thinking skills that empower students to question how we can mitigate the impact of doctored media content. This lesson plan includes a slide deck and brainstorm sheet for classroom use.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson, Lesson Plan

Author: Shana Ferguson

Understanding algorithms and big data in the job market

This interactive lesson helps students understand how companies use algorithms to sort job applicants. It also encourages students to reflect on how digital data mining also can contribute to the hiring process. Students examine resumes and digital data to consider the ways in which our data may open or close opportunities in an increasingly digitized hiring market.

Material Type: Lesson

Author: Shana Ferguson

How a Medium Changes Discourse

OverviewThe medium we choose to communicate a message can affect how that message is conveyed and how well the message will be understood by the receiver of the message.  This lesson gives the students a concrete way of seeing the effect a medium has on a message.  This lesson is part of a media unit curated at our Digital Citizenship website, "Who Am I Online?"

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson

Authors: John Sadzewicz, Beth Clothier, Angela Anderson, Dana John

Copyright/source citation mini lesson

This is a short lesson that uses music to drive home the importance of citing sources.  This lesson is part of a media unit curated at our Digital Citizenship website, "Who Am I Online?"

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Authors: John Sadzewicz, Angela Anderson, Dana John, Beth Clothier

A CRAAPy Lesson

This lesson gives students a strategy for evaluating sources.  This lesson is part of a media unit curated at our Digital Citizenship website, "Who Am I Online?".

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson

Authors: John Sadzewicz, Beth Clothier, Dana John, Angela Anderson

Who Am I Online?

Students will look at social medias and what identities are crafted in those formats, both for social media celebrities and their own digital footprints. This lesson is part of a media unit curated at our Digital Citizenship website, "Who Am I Online?"

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan

Authors: Beth Clothier, Angela Anderson, Dana John, John Sadzewicz

Avoiding Confirmation Bias

We may be leaving out information or disregarding it because it doesn't conform with our own beliefs.  Students will learn about confirmation bias, different perspectives and how to avoid confirmation bias.  This lesson is part of a media unit curated at our Digital Citizenship website, "Who Am I Online?". 

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson, Lesson Plan

Authors: Dana John, Angela Anderson, Beth Clothier, John Sadzewicz

What Is Your Role Online?

In this lesson, students will define their dominant roles online, explain the benefits of each type of online role and discuss the responsibilities and risks inherent in each type of online interaction. This lesson is part of a media unit curated at our Digital Citizenship website entitled "Who Am I Online?"

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan

Authors: Beth Clothier, John Sadzewicz, Dana John, Angela Anderson

Clickbait - Who's It For?

Students will be able to identify what is clickbait, and how it is used once the viewer engages. This lesson is part of a media unit curated at our Digital Citizenship website called "Who Am I Online?"

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan

Authors: Beth Clothier, Angela Anderson, Dana John, John Sadzewicz

Evidence vs. "Truthiness"

Students will practice authenticating online source material as well as strategies for determining the reliability of information. This lesson is part of a media unit curated at our Digital Citizenship website "Who Am I Online?"

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan

Authors: Beth Clothier, Angela Anderson, Dana John, John Sadzewicz

Authorship - Who Tells the Story?

Students will practice looking at a topic from multiple points of view, and will discuss whose voices are amplified and whose voices are silenced.   This lesson is part of a media unit curated at our Digital Citizenship website called "Who Am I Online?".  

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson, Lesson Plan

Authors: Dana John, Angela Anderson, Beth Clothier, John Sadzewicz

Trigger Happy

Students will consider what source of imagery may cause escalating threads of conversation, and consider pause strategies to avoid escalating online interactions.  This lesson is part of a media unit curated at our Digital Citizenship website, "Who Am I Online?". 

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson, Lesson Plan

Authors: Dana John, Angela Anderson, John Sadzewicz, Beth Clothier

Appearance vs. Reality

Students will consider the difference what is shared online and what might be going unshared.  What you see is not always what is real.  This lesson is part of a media unit curated at our Digital Citizenship website, "Who Am I Online?".

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson, Lesson Plan

Authors: Dana John, Beth Clothier, John Sadzewicz, Angela Anderson

70 Characters or Less...

Students will play a written version of the game telephone, and will determine what sorts of communication is effective with limited information, if any.  This lesson is part of a media unit curated at our Digital Citizenship website, "Who Am I Online?". 

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Game, Lesson, Lesson Plan

Authors: Dana John, Beth Clothier, John Sadzewicz, Angela Anderson

What Am I Seeing?

Students will engage in reading imagery through extended viewing of an image, and then engaging with critical dialog about what they saw. This lesson is part of a media unit curated at our Digital Citizenship website, "Who Am I Online?"

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan

Authors: Beth Clothier, Angela Anderson, Dana John, John Sadzewicz

Lateral Reading I

Students will look to multiple sources to verify information they find online and relate this research to the buying of a popular product to research for a scholarly purpose. This lesson is part of a media unit curated at our Digital Citizenship website called "Who Am I Online?"

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan, Reading

Authors: Beth Clothier, Angela Anderson, Dana John, John Sadzewicz

Lateral Reading II

The students will be able to look to multiple sources to verify information they find online. This lesson is part of a media unit curated at our Digital Citizenship website "Who Am I Online?"

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan

Authors: Beth Clothier, Angela Anderson, Dana John, John Sadzewicz

Evaluating News Sources in Social Media

With so many people getting their news from their social media newsfeed, how can they evaluate what is good and what might be fake?  With the help of a Youtube video on the subject, student do some evaluating.  This lesson is part of a media unit curated at our Digital Citizenship website, "Who Am I Online?"

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan

Authors: John Sadzewicz, Dana John, Beth Clothier, Angela Anderson

Using Evaluation to Find Credible Sources

This lesson is a follow-up to learning the CRAAP strategy (or some other evaluation strategy) and allows students to put it into practice.  This lesson is part of a media unit curated at our Digital Citizenship website, "Who Am I Online?"

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan

Authors: John Sadzewicz, Dana John, Beth Clothier, Angela Anderson