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.
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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?"
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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?"
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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?".
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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?"
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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?".
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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?"
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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?"
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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?"
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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?".
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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?".
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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?".
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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
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?"
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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
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?"
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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?"
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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?"
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Students will identify and discuss the benefits and drawbacks of sponsorship in online content and information. This lesson is part of a media unit curated at our Digital Citizenship website, "Who Am I Online?"
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This collection of lessons represent adapted and remixed instructional content for teaching media literacy and specifically civic online reasoning through distance learning. These lessons take students through the steps necessary to source online content, verify evidence presented, and corroborate claims with other sources. The original lesson plans are the work of Stanford History Education Group, licensed under CC 4.0. Please refer to the full text lesson plans at Stanford History Education Group’s, Civic Online Reasoning Curriculum for specifics regarding background, research findings, and additional curriculum for teaching media literacy in the twenty-first century.
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