Daily Lesson Plan: Incorporating Technology and Digital Media

 Name: Kimberly Figures                                       Grade Level Teaching: 3^rd grade

 

Subject: Reading/Language Arts                        Date: September 25, 2022

 

Daily Lesson Plan: Incorporating Technology and Digital Media

 

Lesson Objective(s): v  Students will be able to describe how to create a social media page. v  Students will be able to create a video, reel, and TikTok, while using different graphics. v  Students will be able to demonstrate appropriate purposes for the use of different social media apps.

 

Prerequisite Knowledge: Many students are exposed to Social Media daily. With this lesson, students will gain the knowledge of how to create an appropriate Social Media page. This lesson will also teach a deep critical analysis of content found online and displayed on Social Media. The Students will have a venue for contributing their own voice to represent their cultures, and this will boost their confidence in their personal expression and writing.	Material/Resources: Students will be using the smart tablets supplied by the school. Computer Skills Blank Paper Markers Colored Pencils Crayons
Pre-Work: I will create a secret Facebook group and invites as many students as possible via e-mail. I will take some time to make the group home page an inviting space, using an image for the banner that will be attractive to the class.	Modeling: “I Do”: 5 Minutes Teacher: Now, let’s get a picture of which media you use for what purpose and with whom. Step 1: The students draw a concept map illustrating their social media experience. Teacher: Use the paper in front of you.  In the center, draw a circle and write your name in it. Draw a ring of additional circles to surround the first circle and a line connecting each of these with the center circle. In each circle, write the name of a social media app that you use. Beside each circle, write the language you use there, the people you expect to see there, your purpose for using the app, and an example of what you share there. This is your social media concept map. The teacher can model drawing a social media concept map on the whiteboard while describing the components of the social media map. Step 2: The teacher uses a camera phone, takes a photo of his or her concept map, and posts it to the secret Facebook group created and used by the class. The post should include a two- or three-sentence personal introduction and the social media map image. The teacher narrates and demonstrates this process for the students. While doing this, the teacher explains how a secret Facebook group works, possibly demonstrating how the post just made does not appear on the public Facebook wall and is thus invisible to anyone outside of the group. The teacher emphasizes that the information shared in the private group is not intended to be shared with others outside the group and that members need to respect each other’s privacy.
Guided Practice: “We Do”:  The teacher brings the students back together as a class and reminds them that in this unit the focus is on how people use social media to express and understand themselves and create a public image. The class discusses briefly how this lesson is working to help the students understand that.	Independent Practice: “You Do”: The students create their social media maps. As they do so, the teacher circulates among the students to see what apps are commonly used. The teacher calls on a few students to talk about their work. If Facebook is not listed as a social media app in a student’s concept map, the teacher may choose to help that student quickly create an account or get a volunteer to help the student do this during the presentations. Step 2: The teacher hands out tablets (or some other class set of devices) or asks the students to use their own devices. The teacher instructs the students to open Facebook and log in. Although a few students may need help creating a Facebook account, most students likely will have one. In the unlikely event that no social media apps are listed on a learner’s concept map and the learner is feeling insecure about participating, the teacher can move the student to a separate station for individual study about social media using the following resources.

 

 

Closure (Checking for Understanding):   The students will be asked to write four complete sentences explaining what Social Media is, how they can use it, why it is important, and what will they use it for.

 

Assessments    Diagnostic &/or Formative: We will take a class picture, I will then email the picture to each student, the student will have to use the resources learned today to download the picture to their device and upload the picture to our private Facebook group with a status.

 

Homework:   The teacher will ask the students to log into their social media page, the students will then need to use the information learned in class, to find the private group created for the class, when in the group the student will then write about what they learned in class. Then the students will need to pick one classmate and reply to the status in the group.