Naming in a digital world: Creating a safe persona on the Internet
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=843
A lesson plan for Grade 9 English I
About this resource
- Appropriate grades
- 9
- Subjects
- thinking skills (information literacy), diverse learners (multiple intelligences), education technology (security)
- Provider
- IRA/NCTE
- Special requirements
- 2.01, 2.02, 2.03, 2.04 ELA Grade 9-12, 1.01, 1.02, 3EN.01, 3EN.02, 3EN.03, 3EN.04
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This ReadWriteThink lesson explores the issues involved in building digital personas through e-mail addresses, screen names, and online profiles. Students analyze the underlying connotations of names in digital and non-digital settings and synthesize their investigation by choosing and explaining specific names to represent themselves online. Students participate in an interactive workshop that demonstrates how simple it is for people to get information about them based on the information they provide to websites. After a series of activities that challenge students to research names, students work in small groups to determine the audience and situation for a variety of provided scenarios and then indicate how they would include their name on the piece or sign the message. Then, students read “Teen Safety on the Internet” and use what they learn to create an online persona that is appropriate and safe for a particular audience and situation. This lesson provides assignment handouts and guidelines, as well as several links to sites that offer online Internet safety for teens.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
Computer Technology Skills (2005)
Grades 9–12
- Goal 3EN — English: The learner will use a variety of technologies to access, analyze, interpret, synthesize, apply, and communicate information.
- Objective 3EN.01: Use word processing and/or desktop publishing for a variety of writing assignments/projects.
- Objective 3EN.02: Use electronic resources for research.
- Objective 3EN.03: Select and use technological tools for class assignments, projects, and presentations.
- Objective 3EN.04: Adhere to Fair Use and Multimedia Copyright Guidelines, citing sources ofcopyrighted materials in papers, projects, and multimedia presentations.
English Language Arts (2004)
Grade 9 — English I
- Goal 2: The learner will explain meaning, describe processes, and answer research questions to inform an audience.
- Objective 2.01: Demonstrate the ability to read, listen to and view a variety of increasingly complex print and non-print informational texts appropriate to grade level and course literary focus, by:
- selecting, monitoring, and modifying as necessary reading strategies appropriate to readers' purpose.
- identifying and analyzing text components (such as organizational structures, story elements, organizational features) and evaluating their impact on the text.
- providing textual evidence to support understanding of and reader's response to text.
- demonstrating comprehension of main idea and supporting details.
- summarizing key events and/or points from text.
- making inferences, predicting, and drawing conclusions based on text.
- identifying and analyzing personal, social, historical or cultural influences, contexts, or biases.
- making connections between works, self and related topics.
- analyzing and evaluating the effects of author's craft and style.
- analyzing and evaluating the connections or relationships between and among ideas, concepts, characters and/or experiences.
- identifying and analyzing elements of informational environment found in text in light of purpose, audience, and context.
- Objective 2.02: Explain commonly used terms and concepts that:
- clearly state the subject to be defined.
- classify the terms and identify distinguishing characteristics.
- organize ideas and details effectively.
- use description, comparison, figurative language, and other appropriate strategies purposefully to elaborate ideas.
- demonstrate a clear sense of audience and purpose.
- Objective 2.03: Instruct an audience in how to perform specific operations or procedures by:
- considering the audience's degree of knowledge or understanding.
- providing complete and accurate information.
- using visuals and media to make presentations/products effective.
- using layout and design elements to enhance presentation/product.
- Objective 2.04: Form and refine a question for investigation, using a topic of personal choice, and answer that question by:
- deciding upon and using appropriate methods such as interviews with experts, observations, finding print and non-print sources, and using interactive technology or media.
- prioritizing and organizing the information.
- incorporating effective media and technology to inform or explain.
- report (in written and/or presentational form) the research in an appropriate form for a specified audience.
- Objective 2.01: Demonstrate the ability to read, listen to and view a variety of increasingly complex print and non-print informational texts appropriate to grade level and course literary focus, by:
