ENL1W Unit 4: Digital Citizens

How do we stay safe, smart and kind online, and how do we tell what's true? Students audit a fictional digital footprint, decode a privacy policy, practise upstander moves, learn professional fact-checking, crack a misinformation escape room and write class AI guidelines, using original posts, apps and websites made for these lessons.

Assessment of learning: a fact-check report and a digital guide for younger students, built through a design sprint, with rubrics.

Lessons

1. My Digital Footprint
2. Privacy Policy Decoder
3. Kind Online
4. Two Feeds
5. Mis- or Dis-?
6. The Fact-Check Toolkit
7. Misinformation Escape Room
8. Real, Edited or Generated?
9. Fact-Check Investigation (2 classes)
10. Design Sprint (2 classes)
11. Build the Guide
12. Showcase and Reflect

What you get

• A teacher lesson plan for every lesson: curriculum expectations, learning goals and success criteria, a timed sequence, differentiation, look-fors and answer guides
• Detailed slideshows (15 slides per lesson) with speaker notes on every slide: what to say, what to ask, what to look for and how long to spend, plus warm-ups, worked examples, model answers and answer-key slides
• Student handouts, organizers and exit tickets
• Editable Word and PowerPoint files, plus PDFs
• A unit overview and the summative tasks and rubrics

Built for the 2023 Ontario Grade 9 English curriculum (ENL1W, de-streamed), and easy to adapt for any Grade 9 English class.

Need just one lesson? Single lessons from this unit will also be available for CA$3.99 each.