Luis

• What is the compelling INQUIRY question that guides the design of your lesson/project?

How can high school students practice civic engagement through digital media?

• LESSON/PROJECT SUMMARY: Write a 1 - 2 sentence overview of your planned learning experience(s), including both anytime and real-time elements.

Create opportunities that allow high school students to understand how to participate in civic engagement while practicing digital media literacy in History class. The whole process will follow 3 gradual steps, each one of them will be paired with one or two levels of the Digital and Media Literacy Competencies:

1. Awareness - Access & Analysis

2. Opinion - Create & Reflect

3. Action - Take Action

• TEACHING GOALS: What anytime and/or real-time digital teaching practices will you aim to accomplish in this lesson/product?

  • 1. 1. Explain concepts such as civic engagement, digital media literacy (competencies).

       2. Make students familiar with software applications - Presentation or Graphic Design software. (ACCESS)

       3. Explain effective search and find strategies. (ACCESS)

       4. Identify an issue of interest for the students on a local level.

       5. Recognize personal biases toward the issue. (ANALYSIS)

       6. Compare and contrast different sources and evaluate credibility and quality of the information. (ANALYSIS)

       7. Connect that issue with a similar one from the History curriculum and identify continuity and change.

• LEARNING OUTCOMES: What will learners be expected to know, understand, and be able to do during and after they engage with the sequence of tasks in this lesson/project?

  • 1. 1. To understand: concepts of civic engagement and digital media literacy.

       2. To know: how to use presentation or graphic design software, a civics-related issue on the local level.

       3. To do: a digital product where connections between an event in the past and the present (Continuity and Change) are represented.

• TEXTS/TOOLS/TECHNOLOGIES AND RATIONALE: Identify the digital texts, tools and/or technologies that will be used in this lesson. Explain why you have selected these digital resources for this work.

1. Digital texts:

· Definition(s) of

o Civic Engagement

§ Civic Engagement - https://youth.gov/youth-topics/civic-engagement-and-volunteering

§ What Do We Mean By “Civic Engagement”? - https://www.unomaha.edu/international-studies-and-programs/_files/docs/adler-goggin-civic-engagement.pdf

§ What is Civic Engagement? - https://ipce.uic.edu/what-is-civic-engagement/

o Digital Media Literacy

§ Digital and Media Literacy: A Plan of Action - https://mediaeducationlab.com/sites/default/files/Hobbs%2520Digital%2520and%2520Media%2520Literacy%2520Plan%2520of%2520Action_0_0.pdf

§ What is media literacy, and why is it important? - https://www.commonsensemedia.org/news-and-media-literacy/what-is-media-literacy-and-why-is-it-important

§ What is digital literacy? - https://www.commonsensemedia.org/news-and-media-literacy/what-is-digital-literacy

· Local news

2. Technologies:

· Presentation or Graphic Design software

LESSON PLAN

First session:

• Set an initial response from the students to the question: what do you understand by civic engagement?

• Read different definitions of civic engagement, find similarities and differences and make a comparison with the initial personal response.

• Set an initial response from the students to the question: what do you understand by digital media literacy?

• Read different definitions of digital media literacy, find similarities and differences and make a comparison with the initial personal response.

• Open discussion about both concepts

You're doing great Luis, Keep it up!

Your three-part framework of Awareness Opinion and Action is very clear and should be very helpful to guide your planning.

See you both at 4:30-5:45 ET for Design Studio part deux!