Digital Citizenship at LMS

Digital citizenship education empowers our middle school students to become responsible, ethical, and safe contributors in the digital world.

Lesson STUDENT Objectives
GMail Etiquette Lesson

Students will compose a professional email demonstrating proper formatting, clear purpose, polite language, and awareness of email permanence, while accurately addressing a given scenario
Chatting Safely Online
(Common Sense Media)
  • Analyze how well they know the people they interact with online.
  • Reflect on what information is safe to share with different types of online friends.
  • Learn to recognize red flag feelings and use the Feelings & Options thinking routine to respond to them

Anti-Bullying Podcast (includes cyberbullying) lesson with Health Class.

 Students demonstrate their understanding of the following:
  • What is Bullying?
  • The Anti-bullying law
  • Cyberbullying
  • How bullying feels
  • What can you do about bullying?
Digital Drama
(Common Sense Media)    
  • Reflect on how easily drama can escalate online.
  • Identify de-escalation strategies when dealing with digital drama.
  • Reflect on how digital drama can affect not only oneself but also those around us.
 
Internet Safety & Ethics 

Students review the Responsible Use of Technology police and reate an Internet Safety and Computer Ethics Slideshow

 

Lesson STUDENT Objectives
Credible vs Non-credible Sources
(Google Education Media)

Students  learn strategies to help  determine if the information you find on the Internet is credible or not credible.
The Four Factors of Fair Use (Common Sense Media)
  • Define the terms "copyright," "public domain," and "fair use."
  • Identify the purpose of the Four Factors of Fair Use.
  • Apply fair use to real-world examples, making a case for or against.

Anti-Bullying Podcast (includes cyberbullying) lesson with Health Class.

 Students demonstrate their understanding of the following:
  • What is Bullying?
  • The Anti-bullying law
  • Cyberbullying
  • How bullying feels
  • What can you do about bullying?
The Power of Digital Footprints (Common Sense Media)
  • Define the term "digital footprint" and explain how it can affect their online privacy.
  • Analyze how different parts of their digital footprint can lead others to draw conclusions -- both positive and negative -- about who they are.4
  • Use the Take a Stand thinking routine to examine a dilemma about digital footprints

Truth in Advertising Lesson with Health Class.

 Evaluate how media and technology can be used to distort and , exaggerate and misrepresent information on Health topics

 

Lesson STUDENT Objectives
Digital Media and the Brain
(Common Sense Media)
  • Explore ways that different digital media are, and aren't, designed to help them make good media choices.
  • Reflect on how digital media is designed to either help or hinder the addition of meaning and value to their lives.
  • Think about how to develop good, healthy habits when using digital media.
Oversharing and your Digital Footprints
(Common Sense Media)
  • Reflect on how being on social media can impact their emotions and behavior online.
  • Identify ways to make the most of social media while still caring for themselves and others.
Being Aware of what you share!
(Common Sense Media)
  • Reflect on the concept of privacy, including what they feel comfortable sharing and with which people.
  • Analyze different ways that advertisers collect information about users to send them targeted ads.
  • Identify strategies for protecting their privacy, including opting out of specific features and analyzing app or website privacy policies.

Substance Abuse Research Project Health and Technology classes
  • Students research various substances and compare information on several websites to determine the validity  of the information
  • Students complete website evaluations.