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Unit: Is It Fair? -We are weaving Digital Citizenship into this new social studies unit that we're developing. See wiki below for full unit details as we're just detailing the digital citizenship piece here.
Grade: 4 (Mary and Teresa)
Established Goals (Standards)
In addition to the social studies and language arts standards/benchmarks, here are the National Educational Technology Standards for Students that will be addressed in this unit.

2. Communication and Collaboration
c. develop cultural understanding and global awareness by engaging with learners of other cultures.

3. Research and Information Fluency
c. evaluate and select information sources and digital tools based on the appropriateness to specific tasks.

5. Digital Citizenship
a. advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information and technology.
b. exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that supports collaboration, learning, and productivity.
d. exhibit leadership for digital citizenship.
Enduring UnderstandingsEssential Questions
  • Internet users are citizens of a global community with the power to share ideas with people around the world
  • Digital citizens have certain rights and responsibilities
  • What are my rights and responsibilities as a digital citizen?
Stage 2 – Assessment Evidence
GRASPS TaskSix Facets of Understanding
Goal: Take action on a current social issue

Role: Global Citizen

Audience: To be determined based on issue and action being taken

Situation: As a global citizen, you need to identify a current issue about which you're passionate, research the perspectives on this issue, take a stance on the issue with supporting evidence and decide how you'll make a difference.

Product Performance: 1. Plan of action of how to tackle this social issue. 2. Effective communication to appropriate audience (To be assessed on Social Action Project Rubric, which included digital literacy understandings, skills, and knowledge.

Extension: Extend communication to specific action and collect evidence as to the impact
Explain the importance of the issue both globally and personally (includes Self-Knowledge)
Apply literacy skill sin researching and communicating stance.
Interpret Perspectives Researches and analyzes two or more perspectives on the given issue
Empathize with those suffering from an unjust situation, take action on their behalf.
Lesson Notes:

Digital Citizenship is part of the fourth grade unit "Is It Fair". The unit address being both a global and digital citizen. The "Is It Fair" unit wiki to find essential questions and understandings for the unit. Digital Citizenship lessons will be embedded in the unit particularly during Part III:Take Action. The students will be taking action on a particular issue by researching the issue and using the internet to speak out on this issue.

Lessons:

Citizens of Cyberspace

Speak Out

Rating Web Sites

These lessons are a starting point for teachers to use to embed the essential questions and understandings in this unit



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