Note: All these lessons come from http://commonsense.media.org
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Lesson 1 - Strategic Searching
Essential Question: What steps can help you find what you're looking for when you search online?
Learning Objectives: Students will be able to....
- understand the importance of using a variety of search strategies.
- master new strategies for effective and efficient online searches.
- learn to create and execute a five-step plan for conducting an online search.
Lesson 2 - A Creator's Rights
Essential Question: What rights do you have as a creator?
Learning Objectives: Students will be able to....
- to understand that copyright is a legal system that protects their rights to creative work.
- compare different ways people license their copyrighted work.
Lesson 3 - A Creator's Responsibilities
Essential Question: What responsibilities do you have to respect others' creative work?
Learning Objectives: Students will be able to....
- consider ethical questions about real-life decisions young creators make in exercising their creative rights and responsibilities.
- understand that piracy and plagiarism are irresponsible and disrespectful behaviors that have ethical and legal implications.
- brainstorm solutions to dilemmas creators might encounter.
Lesson 4 - Identifying High-Quality Sites
Essential Question: When can you trust what you find on the Internet?
Learning Objectives: Students will be able to....
- understand how the ease of publishing on the Internet might affect how much they can trust the content of some sites.
- learn criteria that will help them evaluate websites.
- apply the criteria to a site to determine how trustworthy and useful it is.
Lesson 5 - Rework, Reuse, Remix
Essential Question: What rights do you have as a creator?
Learning Objectives: Students will be able to....
- identify the key points required for a creative work to fall under fair use.
- judge whether or not the two case studies can be called fair use.
- understand the value of fair use by reworking and remixing copyrighted material in a slide show.
Lesson 6 - Cyber Bullying
Essential Question: How do you judge the intentions and impact of people's words and actions online?
Learning Objectives: Students will be able to....
- reflect on what it means to be brave and stand up for others offline and online.
- learn to show empathy for those who have been cyberbullied.
- generate multiple solutions for helping others when cyberbullying occurs.