How does technology make you feel?
Title of Project: How does technology make you feel?
Schools and Teachers
Connetquot Elementary School Teacher: Jenny O' Connell and Alyssa Policastro
ENL Proficiency Level | ENL Program | Standards | Technology
Entering | Stand-Alone | L.1.1b,L.1.6,RF.1.4b,RI.1.1,RI.1.4,RI.1.10,RL.1.10,SL.1.1,SL.1.1a,SL.1.1b,SL.1.1c,SL.1.2,SL.1.4,SL.1.5,SL.1.6,W.1.2,W.1.4,W.1.10 | Nearpod, Flipgrid
Assessments
Students will be utilizing a self assessment via an author share of their writing piece.
Students will be completing a writing task to answer the question, "What activities can you do instead of using technology?"
Description
The students will be participating in a Common Sense Learning lesson on describing how they feel when they need to take a break from their devices. The students will participate in an emoji game to show the different feelings you can have when you are doing different things with technology. The students will then be writing about what activities they can do instead of using technology.
Content
I can describe how I can be a good digital citizen.
Language
I can verbally express other things I can do instead of using technology.
Technology
I can use Do Ink to share what I can do instead of using technology.
Student work
Procedure
Start with a paired reading to introduce the topic of digital citizenship: Goodnight Moon and Goodnight IPad.
Nearpod: Use the Nearpod to discuss how technology makes you feel. Then, we will play an emoji game. This is scenario based and the students will draw emotions to show how they would feel based on the scenario.
Show commonsense.org video titled: Say Goodbye To Technology. They introduce the idea of Pause, Breathe and Finish up, this technique is to help students when it is time to put their technology away and to cope with the emotions they are feeling.
Next the students will move on to their writing piece of the lesson. We will brainstorm with the students what activities they can do instead of using technology. Students will pick one of the activities, write a sentence, and draw a picture to match.
Students will have an author share. They will take turns sharing what they wrote and describe their picture.
Resources and Other Materials
Do ink/Flipgrid
commonsense.org
Reflection
This lesson went well. The students were engaged and enjoyed the topic of the lesson. They were able to make connections to the different feelings you can have when having to take a break from technology. The Nearpod was a great visual for the students to draw the different feelings they can have in different scenarios using technology. The Common Sense video was engaging and developmentally appropriate for our students. This was a great resource for them to learn a new strategy when they get upset about taking a break from their technology. Overall, this was a great lesson and the students were very engaged and interested.