I recently finished reading the last few chapters of lol...OMG and I really think this book has great information and key talking points that are extremely important for students to read about and discuss. Although this book is geared for students entering college, I feel that high school students should read this entire book. I also think that there are parts of this book that can be taken and used with students as young as my 6th grade class. I especially feel that chapters 9, Good People, Bad Behavior and chapter ten, Your Digital Citizenship, have significant information for students of all ages.
Chapter 9 has great information on cyberbullying and this chapter can be used in many ways in the classroom. One thing I would do with my students is to pull out the information that explained unintentional cyberbulling and after reading about it have students write a response with ideas on what unintentional bullying might look like and discuss what happens when without meaning you do or say something that hurts someone else. I also would use the vocabulary words which explain the different types of cyberbullying and ask students to choose one to write about on the classroom blog and make a connection with something they may have seen that relates to that word. Then other students would have an opportunity to comment on the posted ideas.
Chapter 10 has a great section in it called You be the Judge, which gives ten"tests" that students can take to think about their own actions and hopefully make good decisions when using social media websites. I would use this as a discourse lesson. I would put students into groups and have each group discuss one of the "tests" by analyzing the questions in that test and discussing why the questions are important to think about when engaging in social media sites. We would then come together to share each groups thinking. Our collaborative thoughts would be written as a guideline for students to use when they use our classroom blog.
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Ann,
I also read, Lol...OMG! I love your idea of using chapter 10 to have students discuss how to appropriately engage in social media. I was thinking that students could also act out the positives and negatives of their actions involving these ten tests. The idea of having students take ownership over their own guidelines for using the internet and classroom blog is amazing! I have found overtime that when students help to make the rules, they are more likely to follow them. Students also begin to hold their classmates accountable for following the rules when they have helped to create them. I feel this power gives students the chance to feel like leaders. Therefore, students begin to act like leaders and lead others to follow the rules they have helped to put into place. I think it would be an extra bonus to post the written guidelines on your blog.
Ann, I agree with Jessica, you came up with great ideas! I was recently looking at the National Educational Technology Standards and I think bringing some of them into your lesson suggestion on cyber bullying might be appropriate. I felt that the tone from the standards is that we are all lifelong learners and the internet can be used in many ways, but it needs to be used responsibly. Some of them might fit in nicely as another point to the learners.
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