EDCI 321 Unit Project
Digital Citizenship in your Makerspace: A 3-day Unit for High School Students
Designed by Margaret TalbotJune 25, 2019Embedded Files
Unit Description and Context
Unit Description and Context
This 3 day unit will focus on concepts of digital citizenship in a Makerspace. Students will focus on how technology impacts their school community- both on the internet and within the Makerspace. Students will explore how their interactions within a Makerspace can be bolstered and reinforced by practices of digital citizenship.
While the concepts of digital citizenship need to be reinforced throughout the years of High School, it felt pertinent to relate digital citizenship to Makerspace activities and practices. I have interacted with students who understand concepts related to digital citizenship (including internet safety, online personal boundaries), but are unfamiliar with how to apply those skills to complex tools in a Makerspace environment. This unit will be an attempt to address that gap, with skills aligned with ISTE standards.
Essential Questions
Essential Questions
How can we utilize technology to bring change to our community?
How can we use technology in a safe and productive way?
How do my actions on the internet influence or affect others, and how does the internet influence me?
Enduring Understandings
Enduring Understandings
Students will understand that how they utilize technology to interact with others matters.
Students will gain knowledge about safe practices to engage with their community using technology.
Students will understand the best practices of engaging with new materials on the internet.
Students will KNOW...
Students will KNOW...
Students will know the best practices to engaging with Makerspace technology.
Students will know how to engage with technology safely and productively.
Students will know how to seek out the best tool to fit the needed task in a Makerspace environment.
Students will UNDERSTAND...
Students will UNDERSTAND...
Students will understand how their actions and interactions with technology impact their community.
Students will understand the implications of interacting with technology on their community and families.
Students will understand when to ask for help from an adult or other student.
Students will BE ABLE TO...
Students will BE ABLE TO...
Students will be able to select the right Makerspace tool for their desired task, and explain why they did so.
Students will be able to better apply digital citizenship skills to other contexts.
Students will be able to effectively use Makerspace technology, self-assess their understanding and troubleshoot when something is wrong.
Students will be able to communicate best practices to other students.
STANDARDS
STANDARDS
For assessing digital literacy, Vermont has adopted ISTE standards. In a specific High School environment, this unit may also align with Graduation expectations or transferable skills in Graduation Proficiencies.
ISTE Standard 1: Empowered Learner
ISTE Standard 1: Empowered Learner
Empowered Learner 1C: Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.
Empowered Learner 1D: Students understand the fundamental concepts of technology operations, demonstrate the ability to choose, use and troubleshoot current technologies and are able to transfer their knowledge to explore emerging technologies.
ISTE Standard 2: Digital Citizen
ISTE Standard 2: Digital Citizen
Digital Citizen 2A: Students cultivate and manage their digital identity and reputation and are aware of the permanence of their actions in the digital world.
Digital Citizen 2B: Students engage in positive, safe, legal and ethical behavior when using technology, including social interactions online or when using networked devices.
ISTE Standard 3: Knowledge Constructor
ISTE Standard 3: Knowledge Constructor
Knowledge Constructor 3C: Students curate information from digital resources using a variety of tools and methods to create collections of artifacts that demonstrate meaningful connections or conclusions.
Assessment
Assessment
The final project of this unit acts as the summative assessment. The final project is a prompt- design a lesson (with any tool from the Makerspace) to teach a middle school classroom about digital citizenship. This assessment will require HS learners to interpret their own understanding of digital citizenship, apply their learning to creating a new lesson, and cultivate empathy for younger students in a different phase of utilizing technology. The selected summative assessment focused on continued learning for younger students because the entire unit is encouraging community growth.
Formative assessments include: reflection journals, student check-ins, peer discussion groups
Summative Assessment Rubric.docx
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