1 - Start ~3 mins
Four strands on the board: Understanding myself when engaging online, Evaluating online content, Following my interests online, and Publishing online. They build toward one Classroom-Based Assessment: the Student Project.
Today you map your real digital day.
2 - Examine and Discuss ~2 mins
Picture a normal school day from waking up to going to sleep. Which digital tools do you actually touch? You will plot them next as private working notes, not for marking.
3 - Hands-on: Make Your Digital Day ~16 mins
Build a card that shows what your day online actually looks like.
Every picture in the library says whether it is free to reuse, needs a credit, or is off limits. One of them will refuse to be used. Check before you place, and open Credits at the end for anything that needs crediting.
Make a square card about your own digital day. Not a list - a piece someone else would stop and look at.
Start in Phones and screens and Everyday objects for the things that actually fill your day. Add a headline in your own words, and put the one habit you would find hardest to give up somewhere it cannot be missed.
Nothing personal goes on it: no names, no school, no faces. If you want to show something private, cover it with a box.
Your work saves as you go. Use the save button to keep a copy on your own device.
My digital day
4 - Hands-on: Our Class Patterns ~13 mins
Keep your private map with you. As a class we will build one shared list on the board under the headings. Offer a tool, app or habit from your map when it fits. The class can adopt a starter, reword it, or add a new one. We will mark what we agree is common here. You do not read out your full list.
Our class digital patterns
5 - Make Sense ~3 mins
Pull the maps and the class list together. In one sentence, what does the board suggest about how this class uses digital technology on a normal day?
You have described how you use digital technologies, communication tools and the internet in daily life, and you have seen what is common and what differs across the room. That noticing is the starting point for this course. Later you will judge content, create media of your own, and publish carefully. Today the point is simpler: describe first, judge later.
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