Digital Citizenship

This theme page presents materials for learning about Digital Citizenship, suitable for various levels (A2-C2).

Related Page: Digital Tools

Background

The updated Swedish Curriculum stipulates digitalisation to be the responsibility of all teachers. The Curriculum highlights four areas of knowledge to be focused on when working with digital materials (my translation):
1) Impact on the society.
2) Understanding digital tools and media.
3) Critical and responsible approach.
4) Problem-solving and resolving ideas in practice.

Warm-up

Evolution Of The Desk - YouTube

Evolution Of The Desk – YouTube (0:54)https://youtu.be/uGI00HV7Cfw

“Evolution of the Desk”. The goal is to illustrate the impact that technology has had on our lives over the last 35 years (A2-B2)

Digital transformation: are you ready for exponential change? Futurist Gerd Leonhard, TFAStudios - YouTube (3:59)

Digital transformation: are you ready for exponential change? Futurist Gerd Leonhard, TFAStudios – YouTube (3:59)https://youtu.be/ystdF6jN7hc

Business-as-usual is dead. Increasingly, science fiction is becoming science fact. We must go beyond technology to define real human values in this new digital ecosystem (B1-C2)

 

Vocabulary

Be a Digital Citizen - YouTube

Be a Digital Citizen – YouTube (2:12)https://youtu.be/FdEXijFXfD8What is digital citizenship and how does it affect you? Please feel free to incorporate this for presentation purposes.

IoT- What is Internet of Things? ( iot , IOT) - YouTube

IoT- What is Internet of Things? ( iot , IOT) – YouTube (3:05)https://youtu.be/ZTM9GA-4nBA

What is the Internet of Things? What is the meaning of IoT? Know all about IoT. Use closed captions and slower speed if needed (B1-C2)

What is Data Literacy? - YouTube

What is Data Literacy? – YouTube (1:44)https://youtu.be/qHz_ogTH2p4

What is ‘data literacy’? Cartoonist Manu takes us through the years of what it has meant to be literate from the 1800’s up through today (A2-C2)

What is data literacy? - Definition from WhatIs.com

What is data literacy? – Definition from WhatIs.comhttps://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/data-literacyWhat is data literacy? This definition explains what data literacy is and what it involves, as well as the abilities that it requires. – See the 6 dots (B1)

What is Artificial Intelligence (or Machine Learning)? - YouTube

What is Artificial Intelligence (or Machine Learning)? – YouTube (6:14)https://youtu.be/mJeNghZXtMo

What is AI? What is machine learning and how does it work? You’ve probably heard the buzz. The age of artificial intelligence has arrived (B1-B2)

 

Impact on the Society

ESL Lesson Plan on Social Media - Breaking News English Lesson

ESL Lesson Plan on Social Media – Breaking News English Lessonhttps://breakingnewsenglish.com/1712/171214-modern-society.htmlEnglish News Lessons: Free 27-Page lesson plan / 2-page mini-lesson – Social Media – Handouts, online activities, speed reading, dictation, mp3… current events. (A2)

 

Understanding digital tools and media

Using the Web to Get Stuff Done: What is the Internet of Things?

Using the Web to Get Stuff Done: What is the Internet of Things? YouTube (1:41) + texthttps://edu.gcfglobal.org/en/using-the-web-to-get-stuff-done/what-is-the-internet-of-things/1/What is the Internet of Things, or IoT? It’s using the web to do things like remotely controlling a thermostat to make life simpler. (A2-B1)

 

Critical and responsible approach

ESL Lesson Plan on World Wide Web - Breaking News English Lesson

ESL Lesson Plan on World Wide Web – Breaking News English Lessonhttps://breakingnewsenglish.com/1703/170315-world-wide-web.htmlEnglish News Lessons: Free 26-Page lesson plan / 2-page mini-lesson – World Wide Web – Handouts, online activities, speed reading, dictation, mp3… current events. (A2)

Internet Addiction - Breaking News English Lesson - ESL

Internet Addiction – Breaking News English Lesson – ESLhttps://breakingnewsenglish.com/1609/160921-internet-addiction.htmlEnglish News Lessons: Free 26-Page lesson plan / 2-page mini-lesson – Internet Addiction – Handouts, online activities, speed reading, dictation, mp3… current events. (A2)

Be Internet Awesome - Slides

Be Internet Awesome – Slideshttps://beinternetawesome.withgoogle.com/en_us/slidesBe Internet Awesome is a multifaceted program that includes a fun and free web-based game called Interland and an educational curriculum to teach kids how to be safe and responsible explorers of the online world. (A2-B1) Teacher’s Guide
How to choose your news - Damon Brown - YouTube

How to choose your news – Damon Brown – YouTube (4:48)https://youtu.be/q-Y-z6HmRgIHow do we choose which news to consume? Get the scoop on how opinions and facts affect the news and how to tell them apart. Lesson Plan

Is This Story Share-Worthy? Flowchart - NewseumED

Is This Story Share-Worthy? Flowchart – NewseumEDhttps://newseumed.org/activity/is-this-story-share-worthy-flowchart-mlbp/

Students use a flowchart to gauge the value of a news story and weigh what they should do with it. Premium access is free. All you have to do is register.

E.S.C.A.P.E. Junk News - NewseumED

E.S.C.A.P.E. Junk News – NewseumEDhttps://newseumed.org/activity/e-s-c-a-p-e-junk-news-mlbp/

Using a downloadable poster, students learn a handy acronym to help them remember six key concepts for evaluating information. Premium access is free. All you have to do is register

 

Problem-solving and implementing ideas to practice

Top 12 Examples, How Technology Has Changed Our Lives | KLIENT SOLUTECH

Top 12 Examples, How Technology Has Changed Our Lives | KLIENT SOLUTECHhttp://www.klientsolutech.com/examples-of-how-technology-has-changed-our-lives/Find out the top 12 examples in this essay or article about how technology has changed our lives in good and bad ways. (B1) – Groupwork: Each group reads, discusses and explains one of the examples.

 

Listening

BBC Learning English - 6 Minute English / Do you fear Artificial Intelligence?

BBC Learning English – 6 Minute English / Do you fear Artificial Intelligence? (6:11)http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/thai/features/6-minute-english/ep-150219Will thinking computers be the end of humans? Listen to Rob and Neil’s chat and learn some related vocabulary. (A2)

Podcast: How the internet works - Telia Company

Podcast: How the internet works – Telia Company (36 min)https://www.teliacompany.com/en/news/news-articles/2017/podcasthow-the-internet-works/

The Fast Forward podcast looks under the hood of the internet and talks about pipes and cables, access and speed with one of the people who make the internet run. – Presented by Swedes (B1-C2)

Speaking

The Future

Futurist Keynote Speaker Gerd Leonhard: The Internet of Things - what's the big deal? - YouTube

Futurist Keynote Speaker Gerd Leonhard: The Internet of Things – what’s the big deal? – YouTube (1:42)https://youtu.be/D8D6KyuGpDA

This film explains why the IoT is such a big deal, and what it could mean for our future. The future is already here – we just haven’t paid enough attention (B1-C2)

If Our Future Is Digital, How Will It Change the World? - text

If Our Future Is Digital, How Will It Change the World? – texthttps://www.wired.com/insights/2014/04/future-digital-will-change-world/By 2050 there will be 9 billion people to feed, clothe, transport, employ and educate (B1-C2)
You can use Rewordify.com to help you understand the text: Rewordify (B1)

 

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