Grade 8

Language · Unit 2 of 12

Digital Media Literacy — Full Unit

7 lessons


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  • 7 lessons
  • PDF · Word · Slides
  • Answer keys included

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Description

All 7 lessons are complete — explain our rights and duties when we act online, manage our privacy, personal data, and security online, judge whether a source is accurate and credible, identify conventions and techniques in digital and media texts, identify the intended and unintended audiences of a media text, choose a digital or media tool suited to a step of a design process, and work respectfully with people from different online groups.

Every lesson comes with a full teaching set: a lesson plan, a worksheet, homework, and a handout. The unit also includes 7 exit cards, 2 quizzes, a project, and an assignment.

Grade 8 · ready for Monday

What's in this unit

  1. 1

    Plan

    7 lesson plans, each one 40-minute period, with what to say and what to watch for.

  2. 2

    Slides

    The lesson on the board, one step at a time, with each answer on the next slide.

  3. 3

    Printouts

    A worksheet, a handout and homework for every lesson.

  4. 4

    Assessment

    7 exit cards, 2 quizzes, a project, an assignment.

  5. 5

    Answer keys

    At the back of every worksheet, homework and assessment.

The 7 lessons

  1. 1Your Digital Footprint, Your Choiceexplain our rights and duties when we act online and choose actions that build a healthy digital identity
  2. 2Guarding Your Data, Guarding Your Peacemanage our privacy, personal data, and security online and interact online in ways that protect well-being
  3. 3Fact, Spin, or Fake?judge whether a source is accurate and credible and recognize misinformation and disinformation
  4. 4How Format Shapes the Messageidentify conventions and techniques in digital and media texts and evaluate how a text's form shapes its effect on an audience
  5. 5Who's Really Watching?identify the intended and unintended audiences of a media text and explain how context and purpose shape a message
  6. 6Tools for Solving Real Problemschoose a digital or media tool suited to a step of a design process and propose a solution to a real, relevant problem
  7. 7Working Well Across Differencework respectfully with people from different online groups and notice cultural difference with care, not judgment
  • Read-Me-First — open it before anything else; one page that says what each file is for
  • One numbered zip per lesson: lesson plan, worksheet, homework, handout and a one-page lesson read-me
  • A zip for the 7 exit cards; a zip for the assessments: 2 quizzes, a project, and an assignment
  • Every file as a print-ready PDF and an editable Word document; the lesson plan also as a PowerPoint deck to project

In every lesson

  • Lesson plan
  • Worksheet
  • Homework
  • Handout

For the whole unit

  • 7 exit cards
  • 2 quizzes
  • A project
  • An assignment
  • Every format included — PDF, DOCX & PPTX
  1. Your Digital Footprint, Your Choice
  2. Guarding Your Data, Guarding Your Peace
  3. Fact, Spin, or Fake?
  4. How Format Shapes the Message
  5. Who's Really Watching?
  6. Tools for Solving Real Problems
  7. Working Well Across Difference
  • Each lesson fits one 40-minute period; the plan is written for a substitute to teach cold
  • Prints cleanly in black and white; nothing depends on colour
  • Answer keys on the teacher pages at the end of every worksheet, homework and assessment
  • In My files right away, and by email.
  • Zips open on any computer; on a phone, save them to Files or Drive first
  • Licensed to one teacher for one classroom — not for sharing with colleagues or your school. Full licence terms
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Cynthia M

This was a great tool for my class! Saved me hours of planning, programming and meeting the needs of my students. The assessment with both a marking scheme and rubric are excellent evaluative components that demonstrate what students know and easy to keep track of for report cards.

Grade 8Language

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