Digital Empowerment Module
Overview
The lessons and activities in this section help students participate in public matters and advocate for issues they care about. Skills addressed: civic and political engagement, content production, and law.
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Featured Lessons
Advocacy and Making Change
Students will learn about the concept of advocacy by identifying an issue that affects their community and brainstorming two changes that they want to see in the future concerning that problem.
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Building Your Advocacy Network
Students will learn how social networks can be leveraged to promote advocacy efforts. Students will also learn how to develop online content to spread information about a cause of interest.
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Raising Awareness Through Media
Students will learn about and identify ways in which various types of media can be used to promote awareness around an issue.
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Hashtags
Students will learn how hashtags have been effective in promoting social movements.
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Time for Action!
Students will learn how to develop an initial plan for their own advocacy campaign.
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Exploring Your Personal Values
Students will be able to sort a list of values in order of importance and reflect on how the most important values impact their lives and their future plans.
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Respect and Boundaries
Students will better understand others’ perspectives and feelings in the context of individuals sharing personal information online.
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Healthy Online Relationships
Students will explore qualities that constitute healthy and kind relationships and how online behaviors play a role in both healthy and unhealthy relationships.
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What is Verification?
Students will learn what information verification is and why it is important.
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The Verification Steps
Students will learn about a five-step checklist they can use to verify the origin, source, date, location, and objective of a news image or video.
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Best Possible Self
Students will imagine and write about their lives 10-20 years from now.
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Versions of Media Texts
Students will define what a scrape (a copy from an original) is and explain why this can make the verification process more difficult.
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Respect and Boundaries
Students will better understand others’ perspectives and feelings in the context of individuals sharing personal information online.
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Healthy Online Relationships
Students will explore qualities that constitute healthy and kind relationships and how online behaviors play a role in both healthy and unhealthy relationships.
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What is Verification?
Students will learn what information verification is and why it is important.
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The Verification Steps
Students will learn about a five-step checklist they can use to verify the origin, source, date, location, and objective of a news image or video.
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Best Possible Self
Students will imagine and write about their lives 10-20 years from now.
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Versions of Media Texts
Students will define what a scrape (a copy from an original) is and explain why this can make the verification process more difficult.
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Advocacy and Making Change
Students will learn about the concept of advocacy by identifying an issue that affects their community and brainstorming two changes that they want to see in the future concerning that problem.
View Page
Building Your Advocacy Network
Students will learn how social networks can be leveraged to promote advocacy efforts. Students will also learn how to develop online content to spread information about a cause of interest.
View Page
Raising Awareness Through Media
Students will learn about and identify ways in which various types of media can be used to promote awareness around an issue.
View Page
Hashtags
Students will learn how hashtags have been effective in promoting social movements.
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Time for Action!
Students will learn how to develop an initial plan for their own advocacy campaign.
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Exploring Your Personal Values
Students will be able to sort a list of values in order of importance and reflect on how the most important values impact their lives and their future plans.
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