Promoting Reflective Digital Citizenship
Through Election Processes
Curated By: Brad, Jocelyn and Stanley
This lesson provides an overview of the relationship between digital wellness, election campaign products, and individual identity. Students are provided several tools to improve rational decision making and research skills within the emotional context during election cycles.
The lesson can be used in the classroom or in community training settings for anyone who is at or approaching voting age, as well as for other audiences to reinforce reflective digital citizenship. Teachers and trainers can use materials and adapt for real time or any time learning.
This article will introduce students to the simple breathing exercises and the science behind their effects. Several sample breathing exercises will then be demonstrated in the video.
Watch the video demonstration of the controlled breathing exercise. Follow along with the demonstration, and practice controlled breathing.
This article describes the nature of our constructed identities, and should start students thinking about their identities and the hierarchical structure of identity.
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Activity: Identity Questionnaire
Have students fill in the identity questionnaire, considering components of identity and arranging the in hierarchical order.
This activity provides opportunities to practice lateral reading, critical thinking, and verification techniques using news media with differing perspectives on the same topic. This activity can also be adapted to explain how to perform these tactics when researching candidates for political office. Instructions for this adaptation can be found at the end of this document.
Introduce and discuss this checklist. Encourage students to use this checklist to help you apply these steps in the future.