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Mini Lesson: InCtrl: Living in a Digital World - Student Video
Resource link: Living in a Digital World
IB Skills: Communication Skills - Exchanging thoughts, messages and information effectively through interaction: Use a variety of media to communicate with a range of audiences
LP: Communicator, Principled, and Thinker
Task: Map out how students spend their 458 minutes online with a review of RescueTime data
Assessment: Students map out their day online and compare the results

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Mini Lesson: Digital Drama - The Powerful Subtweet
Resource link: Common Sense Media - Digital Drama (note: the video may have to be abridged for use in the class as the audience is parents. The messages, however, are fantastic and relevant.
IB Skills: Communication - Exchanging thoughts, messages and information effectively through interaction: Use a variety of media to communicate with a range of audiences
LP: Communicator, principled, caring, and thinker
Task: Listen to the examples, discuss possible responses
Assessment: Identify examples of direct and indirect comments (the subtweet). Determine a suitable response for various instances of digital dramas

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Mini Lesson: Digital Distraction - Multitasking and Time Management
Resource link: Common Sense Media - Digital Distraction - Multitasking and Time Management (this lesson will have to be modified for use with students - it is from a parents’ perspective)
IB Skills: Communication - Exchanging thoughts, messages and information effectively through interaction: Use a variety of media to communicate with a range of audiences
LP: Communicator, thinker
Task: Observe one’s own behaviour perhaps by using RescueTime data
Assessment: Make an agreement to experiment with managing digital technology (the three strategies near the end of the video 11 minute mark)

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Mini Lesson: Feelings on Display    
Resource link: Common Sense Media - Feelings on Display
IB Skills: Communication - Exchanging thoughts, messages and information effectively through interaction: Use a variety of media to communicate with a range of audiences
LP: Thinker, principled, and communicator
Task: Discuss the questions and make a similar ‘international schools’ edition
Assessment: Students will be able to ...

• identify examples of teens evaluating one another’s photos online.
• compare and contrast attitudes toward boys and girls regarding editing, posting, and commenting on personal photos that are posted on social network sites.
• analyze broader gender norms and media messages that may frame the way people use and interpret photos on social network sites.

Note: This lesson centers on photos on social network sites, specifically sites that allow users to choose profile pictures and upload personal images.

​Before starting this lesson, you may want to take an informal survey of the kind of social media that your students use. For students who do not have social network profiles, you can ask similar questions about students’ headshots or “senior pages” in the school yearbook. Or, alternatively, have them imagine what it would be like to upload personal photos to an online profile.