GRADE 9: MY DIGITAL LIFE IS LIKE ...

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My Digital Habits
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Part 1: Check Your Habits

Respond to the prompts below to explore your digital media habits.
Check Your Habits

What are your current digital habits? (Keep in mind: Habits can be positive, negative, or both.
Brainstorm and list as many of your habits as you can.)
1. Playing games like WoTB and Dark Souls :o
2. Watching Youtube videos :)
3. Browsing Reddit :/
4. I sometimes block everything else that happens around me

Next, draw (or insert) an emoji next to each habit to show how it makes you feel.

Part 2: Digital Life Simile

Consider your habits in Part I. Then, complete the statement below to convey the role of digital media
in your life.

My digital life is like a Walk in the park because Most of the time its relatively calming

Things change rapidly and i have to react

My digital life is like a battle because accordingly

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Part 3: Personal Challenge

Considering your responses in Part 1 and 2, use the steps below to create a personal challenge.
Choose

Choose one digital habit you want to change or to try to do differently. Why is it important that you
change this habit?

1.Try to not get engulfed by my devices and try to more aware of whats happening.

Challenge

Challenge yourself. Make a plan for how you would like to change your habit. Consider when you
will do something different and what you can do instead. (When we're trying to change a habit, it's
not enough just to say what we won't do. We also have to come up with something to do instead!)

1. I shall try to use only 1 earbud so that I can hear whatever my grandma and mom are telling
me to do.
2. I shall also lower the volume of what I'm watching or playing so i can hear them.
3. I can also just use my gadgets less.

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Boost

Boost your challenge. What are some ways you can give your new habit a "boost" and make it easier
to do? If you're trying to break a bad habit, what are some things you can do so that you don't slip
back into old ways?

Reflection

Time to share. Say something about what you learned for today and how this discussion helped you.
1. I learned that I use my gadgets a lot and am online for a big part of the day and that I should use it less
to spend more time with family and for use in other productive things.

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