Digital Identity
High School Lessons
Below Are Digital Identity Lessons for High School
Week 1 - Be Me!
Choose 2 or more lessons that you think will be best for your students.
From Common Sense Media
Students test their knowledge of digital media and talk about the role media plays in their lives. Students test their knowledge of digital media and learn some statistics about media use by taking the Got Media Smarts? Student Handout quiz. They then create written similes, collages, or digital animations to express the role media plays in their lives.
From Common Sense Media
Students are introduced to the benefits of sharing information online and the potential risks of sharing inappropriate information. Students then discuss and offer solutions to an online privacy dilemma from the corresponding video discussion guide to demonstrate their understanding of the possible consequences of inappropriate sharing.
From Common Sense Media
Students learn that everything they or anyone else posts about them online becomes part of a public online presence known as a digital footprint. Using the Admissions Packet Student Handout, they view elements of two students’ digital footprints and consider how the footprints might affect those students’ admission to college
From Common Sense Media
Students explore the pressures many teen girls and boys face to keep up appearances online. Students then reflect on their own experiences with photo editing, posting, commenting, and tagging – and draw connections between these experiences and broader social messages about gender.
From Common Sense Media
Students discuss their understanding of ethical behavior and are introduced to the concept of online ethics. Students analyze a mock social networking page based on these ethical considerations. Students then learn about digital citizenship and the different levels of online responsibility.
From Common Sense Media
Students explore how they and others represent themselves online, and the relationship between online and offline selves. Students begin by looking at a slideshow of people and their avatars and reflecting on how people can present themselves online.
From Common Sense Media
Students reflect on their responsibility to protect the privacy of others when posting information about them online.