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Social Media and How �You Feel

DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP | GRADE 10

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Essential Question

How does your social media use affect how you feel?

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Reflect on how their social media use makes them feel and how it compares to other teenagers'.

Describe how active and passive social media use can lead to positive and negative feelings.

Identify action steps to increase their positive feelings when using social media.

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Learning Objectives

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REFLECT: THINK-PAIR-SHARE

How happy do you feel when using social media?

Directions:

Take a moment to think silently and then hold up a number between �1 and 5, with 5 being very happy and 1 being not at all happy.

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Ask: Now let's think specifically about social media -- things like Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube, etc. How happy do you feel when using social media? Hold up a number between 1 and 5, with 5 being very happy and 1 being not at all happy.

Note: Instead of raising numbers, you can have students answer the question via this Google Form or you can use a polling tool such as Kahoot or Mentimeter.

Summarize the findings so that both you and students can get a sense of the differing sentiments related to social media use among the class members. Be sure to elicit the spectrum of positive and negative feelings associated with using social media. Commonly expressed feelings include:

Positive: connected, smart, in-the-know, inspired, entertained
Negative: stressed, insecure, bummed, jealous, angry, tired

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REFLECT: THINK-PAIR-SHARE

Reflect:

What conclusions can you draw from these statistics?
How do they compare to your personal experience?

% of U.S. teens who say the following about social media

Source: Pew Research Center, 2018

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Reflect:

What are the key takeaways from the video?
How does this compare to your personal experience?

WATCH + DISCUSS

To watch this video on KQED's site, click here.

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Contributing online via posts, comments, or other forms of communication and expression

Active use

KEY VOCABULARY

Scrolling through online content without reacting to the content

Passive use

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Overall, how does social media make you feel?

When does it make you happiest?
When does it make you the least happy?
What is one concrete step you can take in your daily to make your overall experience with social media happier?

THINK PAIR SHARE

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