My Media Use: A Personal Challenge
DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP� UK YEAR 8 (AGE 12-13)
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Essential Question
What is your strategy for finding media balance?
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Learning Objectives
Make an inventory of their media choices and how those choices make them feel.
�Brainstorm personal strategies for balancing media use.�
Create personal guidelines to promote healthy media balance.
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Directions
WARM-UP: TAKING STOCK
Without looking inside your bag or backpack ...
Make a list of everything in there. Take 60 seconds to make the most complete list you can.
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Inventory
KEY VOCABULARY
A complete list of items or actions, such as property �or goods
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How is an inventory of activities different from an inventory of objects?�
Directions:
ACTIVITY: THINK-PAIR-SHARE
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What Makes a Healthy Media Plan for Me?
What?
When?
How much?
What are the media you're consuming (or creating)?
For example, are you watching �a movie? Searching for videos on YouTube?
Playing online games?
What device(s) are you using to consume (or create) the media?
When are you consuming �(or creating) the media?
What day(s) of the week?
What time(s) of day?
What else is happening at this time (e.g. during dinnertime, right after waking up in the morning, etc.)?
How much are you consuming?
How long did you spend consuming (or creating) �the media?
How often do you consume �the media?
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What are some of the effects -- positive and negative -- of media use? �
Directions:
ACTIVITY: WRITE-PAIR-SHARE
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OBSERVE + ANALYSE IMAGE
Source: Center for Humane Technology, 2018.
What do you notice in this graphic?
What stands out �to you?
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Media Balance
KEY VOCABULARY
Using media in a way that feels healthy and in balance with other life activities (family, friends, school, hobbies, etc.)
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Guideline
KEY VOCABULARY
A set of criteria or piece of advice for how to do something
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Guidelines for Media Balance
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ACTIVITY: MY MEDIA-BALANCE STRATEGY
Answer the three questions on the My Media-Balance Strategy Handout to map out your personalised media-balance strategy. Then, complete the personal challenge that follows.
Directions
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