Personal networks

Q3 Consider This

14. Social Networking

Snapchat video

Click to watch this ABC Video about Snapchat. 

Introduction

Sharing the wrong kind of information (through text, images, or video) can have long-term consequences for students and adults. Many newer social networks are using features that appeal to teens who believe their text and images are private or anonymous. While social media sites, such as Facebook. Snapchat, Twitter, Instagram and beyond can be a lot of fun to use and good for a laugh, it's more important than ever to understand that even on this kind of site, your online behavior can be traced. For example, complaints to the app developers about inappropriate behavior such as sexting and harassing behavior can be investigated and traced to the user who posted, while pictures that disappear can be saved by a screenshot done by the receiver. 

I Can Statement

  • use social media appropriately and help younger students (ages 8-11) to do so

Key Vocabulary

Harassment: This is online behavior that repeatedly annoys, bothers, or makes someone feel uncomfortable through the use of pictures, comments, or online video. Many states have enacted laws to make online harassment illegal.

Screengrab: Taking a picture of your screen, also called a screenshot. (see Basics)

Viral: To spread rapidly via the Internet, email, or other media.

Play the Vocabulary Game to practice the Key Vocabulary. 

You can change the Quiz mode to Match, Test, Learn, Flash Cards, Spell using the selection list at the bottom right of the activity that says "Choose a Study Mode." Direct Link

STEPS

1. Read the situation below and be prepared to take a stand. You and a partner may be asked to role-play this situation.

Scenario: Your younger sibling between the ages of 8-11 just received their first cell phone. Excited, they come to you and say "I want to download Snapchat and use it, but I don't want to tell Mom/Dad. Can you show me how to use it?"

Task: Decide whether or not it's a good idea for your younger sibling to have a Snapchat account. If you say yes, be prepared to defend your choice with recommended safeguards. If you say no, be prepared to give reasons explaining why you would not show a younger brother/sister how to use it.

2. Use the following resources to defend your decision:

3. Discuss what you have learned with classmates. If you are in a classroom setting, work with a partner and role-play the situation where one of you is the older sibling and the other the younger sibling.

4. Write your reflections on this scenario in the 14.Q2.3.4 Reflection Guide that you copied in Quest two. Your teacher will let you know how to share your reflections on this scenario in another way, such as writing or posting on a classroom social network or discussion board, making a poster or video, or other activity.

5. Check with your teacher about taking the Digital Breakout Challenge, and if you can work as a team, class, or with a partner to solve the four locks.

Note: If you do not know what a 21t4s Digital Breakout Activity is, open the content box on the right above the Printer icon, read and watch the video for hints.

Check with your teacher about doing this Breakout Challenge, and if you can work with a partner, team, or as an entire class to open the four locks.

You will enter your team name, start the timer, and try to figure out the four keys to solve it before time runs out. Good luck!

Direct link to this Breakout.

Screenshot of Consider This water color

Once you unlock it, you might want to take a screenshot of the Award for your portfolio, or check with your teacher.

Please be sure to tell us what you think of this Breakout Activity so that we can meet your needs. Teachers and Students please use this link for a very short survey about this breakout. 

Teen Voices: Friendships and Social Media Video from Commonsense Media - Many middle schoolers use social media to connect with friends, share pictures, and stay up to date. But, most aren't ready to handle the distractions that come with social media, or the pressures they feel to share constantly and always be connected. In this video, you can hear what other teens have to say about these issues and think critically about how social media affects their own relationships.

Social Media, Social Life: Teens Reveal Their Experiences YouTube

Do you Really Have a Private Life Online? YouTube

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14.Q3 Student Checklist

 

14.Q3 Teacher Guide

 

MITECS  Michigan Integrated Technology Competencies for Students, and

ISTE Standards for Students

1. Empowered Learner
a. Articulate and set personal learning goals, develop strategies leveraging technology to achieve them, and reflect on the learning process itself to improve learning outcomes
c. Use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways
d. Understand the fundamental concepts of technology operations, demonstrate the ability to choose, use and troubleshoot current technologies, are able to transfer their knowledge to explore emerging technologies

2. Digital Citizen
a. Cultivate and manage their digital identity and reputation and are aware of the permanence of their actions in the digital world
b. Engage in positive, safe, legal and ethical behavior when using technology
c. Manage their personal data to maintain digital privacy and security

Websites

Videos from Outside Sources

21t4s Documents & Quizzes

21t4s Digital Breakout Challenge

 

A Digital Breakout may also be called a Digital Escape Room.

This is a web-based, game-like activity where students use clues to unlock a series of puzzles or activities to solve a challenge (or to escape a digital room).

Students frequently work together, (conference, or chat) as they work to locate and solve clues.

For additional help view this short video (3:44) showing how to use clues and hints to solve the Escape From Tech Basics located on the Thing 1.Basics Quest 8 page.


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