Healthy Social Media Use

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Coding

A set of 3 short activities which take you through the topics of misinformation, mental health, data collection, and how these relate to our social media use.

Concepts at a Glance

Understand digital citizenship and understand the difference between real and fake information and prevent being manipulated online.
Develop emotional awareness and manage expectations when using social media.
Understand how data collection is being used to persuade them and learn to remove some of that data collection

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Curriculum Connections

Digital Literacy

Internet safety
digital self-image, citizenship, relationships, and communication
legal and ethical considerations, including creative credit and copyright, and cyberbullying
methods for personal media management
search techniques, how search results are selected and ranked, and criteria for evaluating search results
strategies to identify personal learning networks

Materials

Computer and internet access

Activity Instructions

The following are links to videos which give an introduction and provide context for each activity. Detailed instructions and links can be found in the lesson plan attached below. These are snippets taken from our free AI for Teachers course. Each activity can be run individually, or as a connected set.

Digital Citizenship

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Lesson Plan

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