Digital Citizenship: Staying Safe Online

Description of the Lesson

Overview

Students will be able to identify what is okay to share online and what is not ok to share online.  Students will be able to create a Public Service Announcement to share their perspective of staying safe online. 

ISTE Standard

1.2 Digital Citizen: Students recognize the rights, responsibilities and opportunities of living, learning and working in an interconnected digital world, and they act and model in ways that are safe, legal and ethical.

Iowa Core Standard - 21st Century Skills

Technology Literacy - 21.3-5.TL.5

Essential Concept and/or Skill: Understand and practice appropriate, legal, and safe uses of technology for lifelong learning.

• Demonstrate awareness of the dangers of sharing personal information with others.
• Demonstrate an understanding of what electronic theft and plagiarism are and why they are harmful.
• Identify the positive values of using technology to accomplish tasks.
• Use technology to explore and pursue personal interests.
• Show others how to use new technologies, and use technology in a way that assists, rather than prevents, others from learning.

Technology Literacy - 21.k-2.TL.5

Essential Concept and/or Skill: Understand and practice appropriate and safe uses of technology.

• Understand that stealing information and things others have created is the same as stealing tangible items.
• Be aware of why it is unsafe for students to provide others with information about themselves.
• Demonstrate awareness of the importance of communicating with adults about things that might concern them.
• Understand why technology is useful in helping them complete a task.
• Use technology to explore personal interests.
• Demonstrate to others how to use technology tools in ways that assist, rather than prevent, others from learning.

Lesson Design Reflection

HOOK/ATTENTION GETTER: 

I  will start out with a story/discussion about a “person” I met online.  I will make up a story about working online and searching for some resources for a lesson and someone started chatting with me on a website.  I will say that I had a great conversation with this person and wanted to meet with them. They were so knowledgeable and I really wanted to sit and talk with this person rather than chat online.  I will tell them that I can’t wait to share with them what I learned from my new friend and I will let them know all about it when I see them next.  

Is this ok what I was doing on the Internet and why or why not is it ok?

 In reality, part way through the lesson, I will tell them what I shared with them was a made up story.  

DIRECT INSTRUCTION: 

Introduction -  video about Being Safe on the Internet

GUIDED PRACTICE:

Nearpod presentation and Class Discussion

Work through 2 worksheets (from Common Sense Media) individually and discuss with a partner and then as a whole class.  

WRAP-UP: 

Remind students that information about yourself is private and should be kept that way. Do not share your information with anyone on the Internet.