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Digital Friendships

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Title:

 Digital Friendships

URL:

 https://www.commonsense.org/education/digital-citizenship/lesson/digital-friendships

Content Source:

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Common Sense Media
Type: Lesson/Unit Plan

Overview:

Kids make friends everywhere they go -- including online. But are all of these friendships the same? How can kids start online friendships and also learn ways to stay safe? Help your students understand both the benefits and the risks of online-only friendships.

Students will be able to:
  • compare and contrast different kinds of online-only friendships.
  • describe the benefits and risks of online-only friendships.
  • describe how to respond to an online-only friend if the friend asks something that makes them uncomfortable.

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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
10) Identify appropriate and inappropriate uses of communication technology and discuss the permanence of actions in the digital world.

Unpacked Content
Evidence Of Student Attainment:
Students will:
  • identify appropriate and inappropriate uses of communication technology and discuss the permanence of actions in the digital world.
Teacher Vocabulary:
  • digital footprint
  • permanence
  • digital world
Knowledge:
Students know:
  • the difference between appropriate and inappropriate uses of communication technology.
  • everthing shared in a digital world may be permanently stored whether in data on a website, downloaded, screen shot, etc.
  • causes and effects of inappropriate uses of communication.
Skills:
Students are able to:
  • identify examples of appropriate and inappropriate uses of communciation technology.
  • discuss the permanence of actions in the digital word which may be referred to as a digital footprint.
Understanding:
Students understand that:
  • there are appropriate and inappropriate uses of communication online just as there are when communicating face
  • to
  • face.
  • they should assume that nothing is private when communicated in a digital world.
Tags: appropriate communication, benefit, private information, risk, safe use
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Author: Aimee Bates