Урок з розвитку медіаційних компетентностей, урок на основі завдання

Theme/Topic

Learning Objectives

Your digital footprint

Learners will be able:

•          to share ideas about managing their digital footprints;
•          to talk about building a positive digital footprint;
•          to write a text message giving advice about safely managing a digital footprint;
•          to highlight the main issue that needs to be resolved and contribute to collaborative decision-making and problem-solving, expressing and co-developing ideas

Language

Mediation Competencies

Vocabulary about online activity.

Background check, hacking, privacy settings, required information, respectful, traces, adapt, target(ed), peer group, obsessed, maintain, profile scroll

Collaborating to construct meaning

Warm-up (5 min)

Split students into pairs and ask them to think of ways to manage their digital footprint. The students make three suggestions for the rest of the class.

Pre-task Instructions (10 min)

(Handout 1)

Split students into pairs, distribute the handouts, and ask them to copy and complete the questions with the missing vocabulary. Check the answers as a class, then ask students to discuss the questions in pairs.

Task (10 min)

Task: your friend has recently got a smartphone and has started browsing the internet and using social media. You are concerned that he is not aware of the risks of leaving a digital footprint online. Write a short text message to him, explaining what a digital footprint is and how to manage it safely.

Students work in groups to create a message.

Monitor their group activities and scaffold them if any difficulties arise by prompting useful phrases/vocabulary.

Report Format and Content (10min)

The groups of learners will present their messages to the other groups, explain their decisions, and field questions from them. The other groups compare, supplement and discuss.

Questions to Guide Analysis (5 min)

Follow-up (5 min)

Reflect on what is observed during the task:

1.     Write examples of sentences with the target vocabulary on the board and elicit their meaning.
2.     Write examples of grammar structures that arose during the task and elicit their functions.

Ask the learners to take part in an oral reflection based on what they learned in the lesson:

What did you learn about participating in group decision-making?

Have you ever googled yourself?

How often do you check your privacy settings?

Do you have any inactive accounts?

How could you actively build a positive digital footprint that shows your strengths and impact your future in a good way?