Digital Citizenship Week
DIGITAL DRAMA
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This lesson is based on Dealing with Digital Drama from Common Sense Education's Grades 6-8: SEL in Digital Life.Digital Citizenship Week is being celebrated October 18-22, 2021. See all of Common Sense Education's activities for the week that help students reflect on how their digital lives impact their social and emotional well-being.
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Reflect on what is digital drama and why it may happen.Use a scenario to practice taking different people's perspectives.
Identify strategies they can use to de-escalate digital drama.
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CASEL FOCUS: SOCIAL AWARENESSTopic Warm-Up
Answer the questions below using emojis, audio, text or video
DEALING WITH DIGITAL DRAMA
Watch the video
DIGITAL DRAMA:
SCENARIO
Felicia and Jen are friends from school. They both audition for the lead role in the school play.
The next day, Mr. Adler, the drama teacher, posts the final cast list, showing that Felicia was selected for the role.
Felicia posts a photo of the list on social media with the caption "Guess who made LEAD ROLE!! ME!" Other students at her school see the post and make comments.
The comments continue to come in. People
start responding with #teamjen and #teamfelicia hashtags.
Later, in response to Jayden's comments,
Felicia posts an embarrassing picture of
Jayden and calls him out for failing Mr.
Adler's class.
The next day, Mr. Adler, the drama teacher, posts the final cast list, showing that Felicia was selected for the role.
Felicia posts a photo of the list on social media with the caption "Guess who made LEAD ROLE!! ME!" Other students at her school see the post and make comments.
The comments continue to come in. People
start responding with #teamjen and #teamfelicia hashtags.
Later, in response to Jayden's comments,
Felicia posts an embarrassing picture of
Jayden and calls him out for failing Mr.
Adler's class.
DE-ESCALATE
(VERB)
HOW COULD THIS SITUATION HAVE BEEN DE-ESCALATED? WHAT COULD THE PEOPLE INVOLVED HAVE DONE DIFFERENTLY?
STUDENT TASK
You will now have two pages to tell the story from one of the character's perspectives.
1. On the first page, explain what happened and why you did what you did.
2. On the second page, show an example of something you could've done differently that would have been better.
3. Use the final box to explain why you (the character) didn't choose this better option at the time.
2. On the second page, show an example of something you could've done differently that would have been better.
3. Use the final box to explain why you (the character) didn't choose this better option at the time.