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Finding My Media Balance

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Title:

 Finding My Media Balance

URL:

 https://www.commonsense.org/education/digital-citizenship/lesson/finding-my-media-balance

Content Source:

 Other
Common Sense Media
Type: Lesson/Unit Plan

Overview:

Helping kids learn what makes different media choices healthy or not is a good start. But how do we help them actually make responsible choices in the real world? Give your students the opportunity to create a personalized media plan.

Students will be able to:
  • Reflect on how balanced they are in their daily lives.
  • Consider what "media balance" means, and how it applies to them.
  • Create a personalized plan for healthy and balanced media use.

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Content Standard(s):
Digital Literacy and Computer Science
DLIT (2018)
Grade: 5
R1) Identify, demonstrate, and apply personal safe use of digital devices.

Unpacked Content
Evidence Of Student Attainment:
Students will:
  • identify ways to be safe using digital devices.
  • demonstate how to be safe when using digital devices.
  • apply strategies to be safe when using digital devices.
Teacher Vocabulary:
  • personal safety
  • digital device
  • digital citizenship
  • personal information
Knowledge:
Students know:
  • strategies to be safe while using digital devices.
Skills:
Students are able to:
  • create and use passwords which are only shared with their parents or teacher.
  • log off of digital device when no longer using it.
  • explain why you should not share personal information with others online.
Understanding:
Students understand that:
  • passwords are important to have and not share.
  • logging out of resources and devices protect your accounts and information.
  • you should never share personal information with others online.
Digital Literacy and Computer Science
DLIT (2018)
Grade: 5
14) Analyze the impact of social media on individuals, families, and society.

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Evidence Of Student Attainment:
Students will:
  • analyze the impact of social media on individuals, families, and society.
Teacher Vocabulary:
  • analyze
  • impact
  • social media
  • society
Knowledge:
Students know:
  • that social media can impact how individuals, families, and society interact.
Skills:
Students are able to:
  • analyze the social media use of individuals, families, and society and discuss possible impacts.
Understanding:
Students understand that:
    individuals, families, and society communicates with social media that can have a positive or negative impact.
Tags: balance, media, media balance
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Author: Aimee Bates