Be a Creator As Well As a Consumer

Learner Profile Attributes:

  • Reflective - We thoughtfully consider the world and our own ideas and experience. We work to understand our strengths and weaknesses in order to support our learning and personal development.
  • Thinker - We use critical and creative thinking skills to analyse and take responsible action on complex problems. We exercise initiative in making reasoned, ethical decisions.

A digital citizen who is appreciative is able to understand the advantages technology provides, inquire about the role technology plays in the lives of others in their communities, and think about how to create a healthy, balanced relationship with the technology in their life.

Digital Citizenship Components:

  • Connect
      • Digital Communication - Communicating personal goals, reflections, accomplishments and challenges
      • Digital Literacy- Creating and Managing a personal portfolio website

ATL SKills

Communication Skills

  • Collaborate with peers and experts using a variety of digital environments and media
  • Share ideas with multiple audiences using a variety of digital environments and media
  • Organize and depict information logically
  • Understand and implement intellectual property

Self Management Skills:

  • Plan short and long term assignments; meet deadlines
  • Select and use technology effectively and productively
  • Demonstrate persistence and perseverance

Reflection Skills:

  • Develop new skills, techniques and strategies for effective learning
  • Identify strengths and weaknesses of personal learning strategies (selfassessment)

T.H.I.N.K Like a Digital Citizen

Middle School

CPP Tech Skills Addressed:

Content Creation:

  • Use functions of web-based program to insert text, graphics, images and multi-media styles
  • Practice careful management of online content (no identifying information, write/save large blocks of text in a word processing program first)
  • Share online location of web-based presentation programs with others
  • Choose design-elemen ts of web-based presentation programs to correspond with the task
  • Troubleshoot issues with web-based presentation programs (use help features, look for tutorials)
  • Choose among various web-based presentation programs to select one with needed features based on current task

Locating and Organizing Resources

  • Utilize a cloud storage program to save files and information
  • Share files stored within cloud storage programs with specified users

Objectives, Lesson Plan and Supplementary Resources for Content Areas

Presentation:

Being a Creator

Lesson Plan:

Supplementary Activities:

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