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How Plugged In Are You?-- Part 1 of Unplug: The Digital Diet Plan

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  This learning activity provided by:  
Author: Hannah Bradley
System:Dothan City
School:Carver Magnet School
  General Activity Information  
Activity ID: 2712
Title:
How Plugged In Are You?-- Part 1 of Unplug: The Digital Diet Plan
Digital Tool/Resource:
How Much Time Americans Spend In Front Of Screens Will Terrify You from Forbes
Web Address – URL:
Overview:

Students will identify their current daily usage of digital devices through a personal log or estimation. Then, students will read an article and watch the corresponding video which describes a recent report that found the average American spends more than 12 hours a day on a digital device, not including time spent on school work. Students will discuss their opinions with a classmate. The teacher will lead students in a discussion regarding the impact of this digital consumption. Finally, students will brainstorm and discuss other activities they could do in a day if they spent less time on their devices.

  Associated Standards and Objectives  
Content Standard(s):
Education and Training
HUM (2009)
Grade: 9-12
Family Wellness
2 ) Analyze cultural influences on health behaviors, including social norms, laws and regulations, family traditions, and stereotypes that impact the health and wellness of individuals and families.

Examples: knowledge, attitude, and beliefs related to family eating habits; Alabama's graduated driver license to promote safe driving

Education and Training
HUM (2009)
Grade: 9-12
Family Wellness
4 ) Evaluate positive and negative impacts of technology on health.

Examples: positive—improved diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases and disorders

-  negative—decreased level of health-enhancing physical activity, inflationary expense of health care services

Education and Training
HUM (2009)
Grade: 9-12
Family Wellness
9 ) Analyze the relationship of dimensions of health and wellness, including emotional, intellectual, physical, social, environmental, and spiritual factors that impact the health and wellness of individuals and families.

•  Applying decision-making strategies to achieve and improve personal health goals
Example: participating regularly in physical activity, avoiding sexual risk-taking, preventing abuse, practicing water safety, operating motor vehicles safely
Education and Training
HUM (2009)
Grade: 9-12
Life Connections
18 ) Assess ways technology impacts individuals and families throughout the life cycle.

Digital Literacy and Computer Science
DLIT (2018)
Grade: 6
R1) Identify, demonstrate, and apply personal safe use of digital devices.

Unpacked Content
Evidence Of Student Attainment:
Students will:
  • participate in online activities while protecting personal data and will alert a trusted adult if they encounter a questionable situation.
Knowledge:
Students know:
  • that some data is considered personal and should be protected.
Skills:
Students are able to:
  • classify data as private or public.
  • operate technology devices without sharing personal data.
Understanding:
Students understand that:
  • sharing personal data in public forums, even with share settings turned off, can result in dangerous real
  • life consequences.
Digital Literacy and Computer Science
DLIT (2018)
Grade: 6
16) Communicate and/or publish collaboratively to inform others from a variety of backgrounds and cultures about issues and problems.

Unpacked Content
Evidence Of Student Attainment:
Students will:
  • publish or communicate information about issues or problems in their community with groups of various cultures and backgrounds while working in groups or with partners.
Knowledge:
Students know:
  • how to use a platform to share and inform others of a variety of backgrounds about issues or problems important to them.
Skills:
Students are able to:
  • publish and communicate as creators of content and information, instead of only consumers of the same.
Understanding:
Students understand that:
  • being able to communicate effectively and disseminate that information to reach a broader audience is an important part of being a global collaborator.
Digital Literacy and Computer Science
DLIT (2018)
Grade: 7
R1) Identify, demonstrate, and apply personal safe use of digital devices.

Unpacked Content
Evidence Of Student Attainment:
Students will:
  • participate in online activities while protecting personal data
  • alert a trusted adult if they encounter a questionable situation.
Knowledge:
Students know:
  • that some data is considered personal and should be protected.
Skills:
Students are able to:
  • classify data as private or public.
  • operate technology devices without sharing personal data.
Understanding:
Students understand that:
  • sharing personal data in public forums, even with share settings turned off, can result in dangerous real
  • life consequences.
Digital Literacy and Computer Science
DLIT (2018)
Grade: 7
14) Discuss current events related to emerging technologies in computing and the effects such events have on individuals and the global society.

Unpacked Content
Evidence Of Student Attainment:
Students will:
  • identify emerging technologies and share impacts to society.
Knowledge:
Students know:
  • all technologies impact society in some way.
Skills:
Students are able to:
  • identify impacts of emerging technologies.
Understanding:
Students understand that:
  • emerging technologies can have both positive and negative impacts to societies (Ex: a technology can improve efficiency but reduce the number of jobs available).
Digital Literacy and Computer Science
DLIT (2018)
Grade: 8
R1) Identify, demonstrate, and apply personal safe use of digital devices.

Unpacked Content
Evidence Of Student Attainment:
Students will:
  • participate in online activities while protecting personal data and will alert a trusted adult if they encounter a questionable situation.
Knowledge:
Students know:
  • that some data is considered personal and should be protected.
Skills:
Students are able to:
  • classify data as private or public.
  • operate technology devices without sharing personal data.
Understanding:
Students understand that:
  • sharing personal data in public forums, even with share settings turned off, can result in dangerous real
  • life consequences.
Digital Literacy and Computer Science
DLIT (2018)
Grade: 8
14) Analyze current events related to computing and their effects on education, the workplace, individuals, communities, and global society.

Unpacked Content
Evidence Of Student Attainment:
Students will:
  • research current events related to computing.
  • analyze possible effects of current events on education, the workplace, individuals, communities, and global society.
Knowledge:
Students know:
  • technology will always have positive and negative effects on others; it is important to examine the benefits and costs associated with implementing new technology.
Skills:
Students are able to:
  • analyze current events related to computing.
  • analyze the effects of current events related to computing on education, the workplace, individuals, communities, and global society.
Understanding:
Students understand that:
  • it is important to examine the benefits and costs associated with implementing new technology.
Digital Literacy and Computer Science
DLIT (2018)
Grade: 9-12
R1) Identify, demonstrate, and apply personal safe use of digital devices.

Unpacked Content
Evidence Of Student Attainment:
Students will:
  • demonstrate personal safe use of technology.
Knowledge:
Students know:
  • how to safely use digital devices.
  • that failure to use digital devices safely can have an impact on access at school as well as the protection of personal data.
Skills:
Students are able to:
  • identify personal safe use of digital devices.
  • demonstrate personal safe use of digital devices.
  • apply personal safe use of digital devices.
Understanding:
Students understand that:
  • it is important to protect personal data when sharing information on the internet.
Digital Literacy and Computer Science
DLIT (2018)
Grade: 9-12
11) Model and demonstrate behaviors that are safe, legal, and ethical while living, learning, and working in an interconnected digital world.

a. Recognize user tracking methods and hazards.

Examples: Cookies, WiFi packet sniffing.

b. Understand how to apply techniques to mitigate effects of user tracking methods.

c. Understand the ramifications of end-user license agreements and terms of service associated with granting rights to personal data and media to other entities.

d. Explain the relationship between online privacy and personal security.

Examples: Convenience and accessibility, data mining, digital marketing, online wallets, theft of personal information.

e. Identify physical, legal, and ethical consequences of inappropriate digital behaviors.

Examples: Cyberbullying/harassment, inappropriate sexual communications.

f. Explain strategies to lessen the impact of negative digital behaviors and assess when to apply them.

Unpacked Content
Evidence Of Student Attainment:
Students will:
  • model behaviors that are safe, legal, and ethical while living, learning, and working in an interconnected digital world.
a.
  • be able to identify user tracking methods and hazards.
b.
  • present strategies to mitigate effects of user tracking methods.
c.
  • explain how end-user license agreements and terms of service agreements serve to protect corporations not individuals.
  • explain the ramifications that may exist when one enters into a end-user licensing agreement or terms of use agreement.
  • explain how personal data may be shared by permissions agreed to in terms of service or end-user license agreements.
d.
  • explain online privacy.
  • explain personal security.
  • explain the relationship between online privacy and personal security.
e.
  • identify physical consequences of inappropriate digital behaviors.
  • identify legal consequences of inappropriate digital behaviors.
  • identify ethical consequences of inappropriate digital behaviors.
f.
  • identify impacts of negative digital behaviors.
  • explain strategies to lessen the impact of negative digital behaviors.
  • assess when to apply various strategies to lessen the impact of negative digital behaviors.
Teacher Vocabulary:
  • ethics
  • digital world
a.
    cookies
  • virus
  • malware
  • packet sniffing
  • spyware
  • phishing
b.
  • browser history
c.
  • personal data
d.
    data mining
  • digital marketing
  • online wallets
  • personal information
  • data accessibility
  • passwords.
e.
  • cyberbullying
  • harassment
  • sexual communication
f.
  • online safety
Knowledge:
Students know:
  • safe, legal, and ethical behaviors for online behavior.
a.
  • tracking methods are often used to improve digital tools and advertising.
  • hazards exist when unknown entities have access to a user's digital habits.
b.
  • methods to counteract the use of tracking.
c.
  • that often, end-user licensing agreements (EULA) are often written to protect the entity that created the digital tool, rather than the user of the digital tool.
  • that EULAs and terms of service agreements can grant access to the user's personal data.
  • that personal data can include images, posts, personal information (phone number, address, birth date, access to friends), and browsing data.
d.
  • often there exists an inverse relationship between online privacy/personal security and convenience.
e.
  • that inappropriate digital behavior can have physical, legal, and ethical consequences.
f.
  • that negative digital behaviors can have lasting consequences.
  • that some behaviors are illegal.
  • strategies to lessen the impact of negative digital behaviors and assess when to apply them.
Skills:
Students are able to:
  • interact digitally while exercising safe, legal, and ethical behaviors.
a.
  • identify tracking methods used to gather data.
  • identify hazards that exist when tracking methods are used.
b.
  • list techniques to avoid tracking.
  • apply techniques to avoid tracking.
c.
  • interpret the terms of EULAs and terms of service agreements.
  • make an educated decision to agree to EULAs and terms of service agreements.
d.
  • weigh the risks of using a digital tool to one's personal security.
  • identify potential risks to using various digital tools.
  • evaluate a digital tool's security.
e.
  • identify inappropriate digital behaviors.
  • identify consequences of inappropriate digital behaviors.
f.
  • identify negative digital behaviors.
  • share strategies to to lessen the impact of negative digital behaviors.
Understanding:
Students understand that:
  • because the Internet can be such a persisting environment, it is vital to interact with safe, legal, and ethical behaviors.
a.
  • entities use tracking methods to make products more appealing to their users.
  • hazards exists when tracking data can be tied to individual users.
b.
  • privacy can be violated when tracking is used.
  • techniques exist to mitigate the effects of tracking methods.
c.
  • nothing is free—you often give up data to use digital resources for no charge.
  • it is important to educate yourself on EULAs and terms of service agreements.
d.
  • free digital tools can compromise one's privacy and security.
  • it is important to be aware of what one is trading for use of a service.
e.
  • inappropriate digital behavior can have physical, legal, and ethical consequences.
  • consequences of inappropriate digital behaviors can have life-altering consequences.
f.
  • digital identity is tied to online digital behavior.
  • negative digital behaviors can have lasting consequences.
  • some digital activity is illegal.
Health Education
HE (2019)
Grade: 6
6.1.1) Describe the interrelationship between social and emotional health in adolescence.

a. . Identify how positive relationships can enhance each dimension of health.

b. Explain how stress can affect personal health.

Health Education
HE (2019)
Grade: 7
7.1.1) Summarize the interrelationship of emotional, social, and physical health.

a. Determine how peers may affect the six dimensions of health.

b. Illustrate how changing family dynamics can affect health.

Examples: divorce, relocating, death

Health Education
HE (2019)
Grade: 8
8.1.1) Explain how emotional, intellectual, physical, spiritual, mental, and social health affect each other.

a. Determine how social influences can affect physical health.

b. Describe how risky health behaviors affect the emotional, physical, and social health of adolescents.

Health Education
HE (2019)
Grade: 8
8.2.3) Analyze the influences of technology on personal and family health.

Examples: screen time, video game addictions, activity trackers, diabetes monitor, heart monitor, fitness assessment tools

Health Education
HE (2019)
Grade: 9-12
Health Education
HE.1.2) Describe the interrelationships of emotional, mental, physical, social, spiritual, and environmental health.

a. Identify symptoms and methods of treatment of mental health disorders, including depression, and stress.

b. Identify warning signs and prevention strategies for suicide.

Health Education
HE (2019)
Grade: 9-12
Health Education
HE.2.2) Describe the pros and cons of the use of technology as it affects personal, family, and community health.

Examples: positive and negative influences on self-esteem, addiction to technology, personal interactions and relationships

Learning Objectives:

Students will identify the safe personal use of digital devices.

Students will discuss current events and issues related to technology/computing with their peers.

Students will describe how physical, mental, emotional, and social health are related.

Students will describe how technology can impact personal health.

Students will analyze and evaluate positive and negative impacts that technology can have on all aspects of health.

Students will analyze a text related to current events in computing/digitization and evaluate how these events impact individual health and society at large.

  Strategies, Preparations and Variations  
Phase:
Before/Engage
Activity:

  1. Students will identify the approximate amount of time they spend on digital devices each day (any waking hours, including during school hours). The teacher will need to define a digital device as anything we use to consume media, entertainment, and/or information such as television, cell phone, gaming console/device, laptop computer, desktop computer, tablet, etc.

    Option 1: Ask students to estimate the time they spend on digital devices each day by writing down the times they usually access a digital device beginning as soon as they open their eyes in the morning. 

    Option 2: Present the task, then have students keep track of every time they access a digital device over the next 24 hours. (For example, from the beginning of your class today to the beginning of your class tomorrow).

  2. After students record their personal amount of digital device usage, show the video linked within this article: "How Much Time Americans Spend In Front Of Screens Will Terrify You." As students are watching the video, direct them to think about their position on the topic of digital device usage. 

  3. After viewing the video clip, give students a printed copy of this article: "How Much Time Americans Spend In Front Of Screens Will Terrify You." Ask students to annotate the text in the following method.

      • Highlight any data points/scientific research.
      • Put an exclamation point beside anything that surprised them.
      • Put a question mark next to anything that they have a question about or would like more information on.

  4. Next, students will pair with a classmate to reread the text together and discuss their annotations. (For example: Did both students highlight the same data points/research? Did similar statements surprise them? Did they have different questions?)

  5. The teacher will lead a whole-class discussion on the article using these discussion prompts:

      • Does your personal use of digital devices positively or negatively affect your personal, mental, emotional, and/or social health? Give a personal example to support your answer.
      • If we decreased our use of digital devices, what could/would change in our lives?
      • If we increased our use of digital devices, what could/would change in our lives?

Assessment Strategies:

Students will answer the questions on this Google Doc:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Jc5fzNxPK7aYmSWLRCS-mkQo_UE_LkpcK-iWtBAA1g4/copy

The teacher will assess students' mastery of the standards during the peer and group discussion and by reviewing each student's responses to the assessment activity.


Advanced Preparation:

  • Review the options for Step 1. If Option 2 is chosen, the students should be introduced to the activity the day before the teacher plans to teach the activity in class.
  • Each student will need a pencil and highlighter.
  • The teacher will need the ability to play a movie with sound for students to view, or the teacher can allow students to view the video on their own devices.
  • The teacher will need a copy of the article for each student. Alternatively, the teacher could post the link for students to view online.
  • The teacher will need to copy the assessment for each student or post the link to allow students to respond online: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Jc5fzNxPK7aYmSWLRCS-mkQo_UE_LkpcK-iWtBAA1g4/copy.
Variation Tips (optional):

Rather than beginning the activity with a log of digital device usage, students could complete one of the following tests online:

Virtual Addiction Test

Digital Distraction Test

Child Technology Test

Links to Additional Activities:

The Consequences of Being Too Plugged In-- Part 2 of Unplug: The Digital Diet Plan

My Pledge to Unplug-- Part 3 of Unplug: The Digital Diet Plan

Notes or Recommendations (optional):

As written, the activity contains media in a visual and text format (i.e., the video clip and the corresponding article) that students then discuss with a peer. Teachers could add to their class discussion by asking:

How is your understanding of the topic affected by how you get the information? If you only watched the video, or only read the article, do you think your understanding would be different? Did discussing with a partner help you come to a better understanding of what you read and heard?

This activity also correlates to the following Career Tech Standards:

Foundations of Business Leadership

4. Identify barriers to and methods for improving the communication process in the corporate world.

STEM Technologies I 

6. Identify positive and negative ways the use of technology affects humans.

21. Engage in positive, safe, legal, and ethical behaviors when using technology, including during social interactions online and when using networked devices.

Business Skills Development

14. Identify the potential hazards that misusing social media and other technology may have on one’s future plans.

  Keywords and Search Tags  
Keywords and Search Tags: communication, digital device, personal health, technology, unplugged