Social Media Lesson Plan and Rubric - English, Language Arts

According to "Literacy with ICT Across the Curriculum - A continuum Model - Resource for Developing Computer Literacy - 06"

Students develop their literacy with ICT (information - communication - technology) by a process of inquiry, this inquiry involves:

1. Planning a Question
2. Gathering and Making Sense
3. Produce to Show Understanding
4. Communication
5. Reflecting on their own Learning
   
   
   
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   Lesson: English - Language Arts, Social Media
   Activating Students Knowledge: 
   • Activate students prior knowledge about Social Media by asking students - (Either: through a blog - poll or twitter) Or mark questions on smart board or spoken word - teachers can even use power-point to post questions.
   • Ask Student: How many of you use Facebook?

   • Have students answer poll by using their mobile devices, itouch's ipads, laptop computers etc.  
   • Once poll is completed - Ask students: What is a social network? or What do you know about Social Media?  What is Facebook?  
   • Get students to think about this individually, writing down anything they can/think they know about social media.
   • Get students into pairs (Think-Pair-Share) to share their ideas.
   • Have students share what they have written with the rest of the class, it can be through a photo, notes from an itouch..etc
     
     

    After This short discussion:
   
   

   • Teacher opens blog, wiki, or twitter account and lets students read/watch/or listen from your social media account one interesting article/video clip/song etc on social media in the classroom.
   • Let students read, then get students into small co-operative groups to get answers to teacher questions to fill out on a large poster paper (answers and what they found interesting)
   • What is social networking?  Give examples.  Do you have a favorite Social Network? why?  What do you think tomorrows new technology will bring us? How will it help us in the English Classroom?
   • Also ask students to highlight any vocabulary from the blog article/video/song that they had trouble understanding.
   • Do a gallery walk of all the posters, and get students to point out commonalities or differences in each.
     
     
     

   Here are some points/questions for discussion:
   
   

   

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   Have students fill these out.  And for next class have students create a form of writing through a blog or wiki or any social media outlet (IF permission is given from the school and parents) Expressing how Social Media effects their life, how they use it, who they share with and why! Tell students that they are going to present their written material, findings etc to the class.  You can mark or evaluate these students on their knowledge with the help of ICT to create a rubric.
   
   Set rules with students ex. Gather sources, layout, written forms example, etc...
   
   

   

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