Collaborative Unit on Digital Citizenship Outline

Heather Hagood
Collaborative: Donna Scoggins (High School Media Specialist)
Topic: How can students be good digital citizens?
Needs Assessments:
 Students need to understand the importance of Information Literacy. Students need to
learn the correct way to cite information on a classwork assignment or research.
 Students need to understand the importance of online behavior and the digital footprint it
leaves.
 Students need to learn how to engage respectfully with people during a positive online
environment.
Learner Analysis:
 9th - 12th Grade students at Luella High School
 Students are between the ages of 14-18.
 There are 49% of girls and 51% of boys in the class.
 There is 4% Asian learner, 11% Hispanic, 16% White, and 84% of African American
learners.
Instructional Objectives:
1. Students will be able to use and cite resources properly
2. Students will be able to understand how online information can affect future jobs
prospects and relationships
3. Students will be able to identify appropriate ways to communicate and behave online
4. Students will be able to protect personal information
Assessment Plan:
 Formative: Quiz on copyright, plagiarism, and citing a given resource correctly.
 Formative: Partner activity where students will research each other to create an overview
of their digital footprint available to the public.
 Summative: Students will do a self-assessment on how safe their data habits are currently
 Formative: list what they will do to secure themselves
Content Outline:
 Pre-instructional strategy: Engage the learners by presenting the instructional objectives,
various questions and videos.
Sequence Description Objective
1 Students will watch a video 1-4
over Digital Citizenship and
 see instructional goals for
each section's unit and
directions.
2 Demonstrate examples and 1
consequences of plagiarism,
basics of copyright laws, and
fair use. Explain different
ways to cite sources properly
to avoid consequences.
QUIZ
3 Explain what Digital 2 and 3
Identification/Footprint is.
4 Demonstrate examples of 2 and 3
positive and negative digital
footprints and ways they can
affect students.
PARTNER ACTIVITY
5 Demonstrate different ways 4
to protect your data online.
6 Participants will post on the 4
word cloud the first things
they will do to protect
themselves better.
SELF ASSESSMENT
WORD CLOUD
7 Students will create a mini- 1-4
presentation summarizing all
of the topics in their own
words
MINI PRESENTATION

Evaluation Plan:
 Post-module survey: Ask learners and the collaborating teacher to rate the content
appropriateness, usability, and allocation of time/resources.
o Provide an area for qualitative feedback.
o Quantitative feedback on multiple questions using the Likert scale.