Essential Questions:
What are the differences between who I am and who I am online?
2. What does a healthy online identity look like?
3. How can I change my habits to maintain a positive, safe, healthy online identity?
4. DRIVING QUESTION: How can I inspire myself and my community to maintain a positive, safe, and healthy online identity?
Readings/ Implementation:
Reading and analyzing excerpts from "How I Resist" by Jonny Sun provides an insightful exploration into the art of advocacy and the reasons behind it. This engaging exercise empowers students to delve into the heart of advocacy and the concepts of civic engagement that are the underlying ideas for all our AOIT projects. It will deepen and provide examples for understanding its significance and the tools necessary to effect positive change. By examining the book's powerful narratives and thought-provoking insights, students gain a deep understanding of the motivations that drive advocates and the impact they can have.
Drawing inspiration from these readings, students are then encouraged to apply their newfound knowledge in a practical manner. They collaborate to create informative and visually appealing infographics, specifically focused on campus resources. These infographics serve as valuable assets for the student body, promoting awareness and accessibility to the various resources available on campus.
Through this comprehensive approach, students not only develop critical reading and analysis skills but also cultivate a sense of empowerment and active engagement within their campus community. By combining literature, advocacy, and technology, this project nurtures a generation of informed and compassionate individuals ready to make a difference in their own unique ways.
The literary text we will be reading to inspire some of the topics and ideas related to the essential questions will include informational articles and Ready Player One.
Student Generated
Infographics & Vlogs
One of the project deliverables will be to create vlogs and student-generated infographics, each crafted to highlight a specific issue relating to POP that the designated teams are passionate about. Driven by a desire for change, these students dedicated their time and energy to shed light on pressing matters. Alongside their chosen issue, students have researched and identified an organization that actively works towards addressing and combating the problem at hand. We will encourage them to be solution-oriented and actionable so that they may share with the middle schoolers and parent community some practical and thoughtful tips.
Students will present to middle school and then present their projects and finding to the CCTE Showcase and set up a booth with their videos, websites, screen recordings and a P.O.P Photobooth that will have props demonstrating positive images and identities to portray online.
