Teacher Resources

• Common Sense Media: Privacy and Security

• Tech Check

• Digital Learning Tools: Privacy for Students and Teachers

Reading:

• NYTimes: Are your Tech Habits Hurting Your grades? (In this article is a link to a collection of audio comments by teens about their connected lives. Use this link if you want to share with your group.)

• NYTimes: Compulsive Texting Takes Its Toll on Teenagers 

Practice:

• Do you want to see how you spend your time on your laptop? WebTime Tracker, a Chrome app will keep track for you.

• Wonder how much time you're on your phone? Moment is an app for that.

• Give students a piece of paper and have them draw four lines on it. Instruct them to write the following (or use this link) while being timed: 

  • On the first line write: MULTITASKING IS A MYT

  • On the second line write the numbers 1 - 19

  • Then, timing them again, have them write the same sequence of letters and numbers on the 3rd and 4th lines. This time, however, they should write a letter on line 3, then a number on line 4, until they have completed both lines. 

Videos:

• The Impossible Texting and Driving Test

• Single Tasking is the New Multitasking

• Device Free Dinner

Reading:

• Three Ways to avoid the Wellbeing Pitfalls of Digital World

• The Flight From Conversation 

• How Social Media can induce Feelings of "Missing Out"

• Does the Internet Make you Depressed?

Videos:

• A Day in Teens' Digital Life

• The Doctors 48 Hour Technology Detox Course

• People Give up Social Media for a Week

Reading:

• How the Parkland Teens got so good at social media

• Teen creates 'Sit With Me' app to help kids find lunch mates (if you want to listen to the audio, put on earphones!)

• ReThink, an anti-bullying app developed by a teen

• Dosomething.org helps young people have an impact

• Do Something.org

• How Hashtag Activism Is Changing the Way We Protest

• Social Media Helps Syrian Refugee

• Going Viral: what social media activists need to know

• Hashtag Activism and Its Limits

• Empty Clicks: why online activism Is often meaningless

• Activism or Slactivism? How social media hurts and helps student activism

• Online Avengers

Videos:

• "Sit with Us": Bullied Teen creates an app to tackle Lunchtime loneliness

• Does Social Media have the power to change the world

• Think Millennials are the Me, Me Me Generation? Think Again!

• Black Lives Matter: How 3 words became a Movement

• The New Change-Makers: An Introduction to Digital Activism

• How to Send a Mattergram

• Chat GPT and Beyond: Common Sense Media

• Introducing ChatGPT to Your Classroom

Common Sense Media (Lessons by grade level)