Cyberbullying Among Teens
Created By:
Violet Harada
Title/Role:
Professor
Organization/School Name:
University of Hawaii
Location:
Hawaii
Grade Level:
9 Type of Lesson:
Lesson in a unit Type of Schedule:
Combination Collaboration Continuum:
Moderate Content Area:
Social studies Content Topic:
Digital citizenship Scenario:
When a student is suspended for using Facebook to taunt a fellow student, the incident spurs classroom discussions on the importance of ethical online behavior and a community meeting on how parents must get involved. Students in a civics class take up the challenge of communicating the importance of digital responsibility to both students and parents in the community. The teacher asks the LMS to assist the students in investigating reasons why teens engage in cyberbullying, how it affects the victims, and strategies and actions to prevent cyberbullying. Students interview resource people from the police and education departments, view and discuss cyberwise guides from different social networking sites, and survey parents and students about ways to foster appropriate digital practices.The LMS and technology resource teacher work together in helping the students as they organize and synthesize their findings to produce video podcasts that are disseminated throughout their school community. Overview:
Students learn the importance of creating storyboards as first steps in designing their podcasts. To build their storyboards, they wrestle with the following essential questions: Why do teens engage in cyberbullying? How does it affect the victims? What can we do to stop cybebullying? Final Product:
Students communicate their findings and recommendations through video podcasts. Library Lesson:
At this point in the unit, students in grade nine have collected information and are ready to create their video podcasts. In this lesson, they are beginning the process by creating storyboards to conceptualize their podcasts. This particular lesson may be split into two 60-minute sessions. Estimated Lesson Time:
120 minutes Have you taught this lesson before:
No Strategies for differentiation:
Each podcast design team is expected to assign specific tasks to its members. The students are encouraged to capitalize on different strengths and talents of the team members to design the storyboard, find relevant graphics, work on the video and audio components, and edit the podcast.