Digital Citizenship: Gr 7 Digital Citzenship
Common Sense Media Topics & Habits of Mind
Gr 7 - My Social Media Life
Essential Question: How does social media affect our relationships?
Lesson Vocabulary:
Social media - Websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking
Oversharing - Sharing personal feelings, information, or
experiences that later make the sharer feel uncomfortable or regretful
Red flag feeling - When something happens on digital media that makes you feel uncomfortable, worried, sad, or anxious
Gr 7 - Upstanders & Allies: Taking Action Against Cyberbullying
Essential Question: How can you respond when cyberbullying occurs?
Lesson Vocabulary:
Cyberbullying - using digital devices, sites, and apps to intimidate, harm, and upset someone
Empathy - to imagine the feelings that someone else is experiencing
Upstander - someone who responds to a bullying situation by confronting the bully directly or by telling a trusted adult
Ally - someone who responds to a bullying situation by supporting the person being bullied
Gr 7 - The Four Factors of Fair Use
Essential Question: What rights to fair use do you have as a creator?
Lesson Vocabulary:
Copyright - Legal protection that creators have over the things they create
Public domain - Creative work that's not copyrighted and free to use without permission
Fair use - The ability to use copyrighted work without permission, but only in certain ways and specific situations