6. Student lessons

Lesson Goals and Objectives

Lesson goals:

• Facilitated by students, members of a site Tech Team  

• Intended for grades 4-12

• Delivered in 20-minute lessons

• Based on 2-3 minute videos for quick student engagement

• Involves viewing, listening, writing (think/ink), speaking

Lesson objectives:

• Pose essential question

• View 2-3 minute video

• 5 minutes of silent individual written response (Think/Ink)

• 5-10 minutes of class discussion/response

• Conclusion: Was question solved? Response led by student facilitator. 

Lesson materials:

• Lesson List      

• Curriculum Map

• Facilitator lesson script

• Student selected curriculum scope and sequence: Student Packet for guided or independent study

• Student Journal    

Lesson Pedagogy

     1) Set/motivation: Give each student Tech Team member the "script" seen below. Click here to download: "Digital Citizenship Lesson: Student Tech Team SCRIPT" and show students the location of the lesson segment on this Web site.

     2) Demonstrate/Guided Practice: Teacher Tech Team Manager reviews the lesson content and suggests strategies for delivery.

     3) Independent practice: Pair/share student teams can present the lesson to each other.

     4) Wrap-up/Conclusion: Tech Team Manager allows constructive criticism and questions to overcome unanticipated difficulties.

Tech Team 

    1) Create a school Tech Team: a) Students are selected through an application process. Selection criteria includes an interest in technology and the personality to facilitate a lesson in front of peers. b) Ideally there should be a student facilitator in each classroom where the lesson will be delivered. This might present scheduling problems for larger schools. c) Student facilitators selected to be on the Tech Team would have their schedules changed to have a period designated for learning and training, even if it is a "0" period.

    2) Teacher manager: Appoint a teacher to manage the student Tech Team. This adult Tech Team Manager will: a) choose each week's lesson, b) train Tech Team student members on lesson presentation, c) communicate with classroom teachers about lesson setup in their classrooms, and d) prepare handouts, such as journal pages. Students can save journal pages into a personal "Log," or pages can be collected into classroom folders for accountability.

    3) Day of the week should be designated for digital citizenship school-wide lessons, such as "Tech Tuesday."

    4) Training: a) For at least a couple of weeks prior to actual lessons, the Tech Team Manager trains the Tech Team to be lesson facilitators using the pedagogy seen above and the Sample B script seen below. b) On the day before each lesson, the teacher manager would have a run-through of that week's lesson. Student facilitators should fully participate in each part of the lesson including viewing the video, responding in writing on a journal page, discussing the video with the group, and arriving at a consensus or conclusion. Only by doing it themselves will the student facilitators understand how to better deal with a classroom of real students. See Sample C lesson below. Disclaimer: The classroom teacher would always intervene for student discipline. A student Tech Team member is responsible for facilitating a digital citizenship lesson, not managing student behavior.

    5) School publicity: a) The teacher manager publicizes each week's lesson, anticipating hardware and classroom issues. b) If your school district blocks YouTube, try pasting the video links into SafeShareTV. The teacher manager can send out that week's video inserted into SafeShare as part of school notification of the upcoming lesson. See Sample A email below.

Sample A: Publicity Email