Terminal Objectives

Instructional Problem and Solution

Middle school students need to learn about how to be good Digital Citizens. In our school, the age between 12-15 always struggles with cyberbullying, safety issues when they are playing games online, and many other things related to social media and the Internet in general. Our school is usually trying to find a teacher who can teach and address these issues. Creating this course online will be easy for any advisor to follow with the students and teach the class without making the lesson plans.

Method of Delivery:

We will be using the Rise application as an authoring tool to deliver the course material. The course will be running for about three weeks maximum. Since the course is designed for the middle school age (13-15 ), so we will be considering the Cognitive and Connectivism theories throughout my course design. The online format that will be used by students to complete assignments and lessons will be through our school LMS system (Schoology), which will allow students to connect for discussion and submit work for grading.

The Instructional Goals and Objectives:

This course is intended for Middle school students at KAS. The learners will be introduced to various topics related to staying safe online and being a good digital citizen.

Terminal Objectives:

The online materials will be covering topics such as:

• Media Balance and Wellbeings.

• Privacy and Security.

• Digital Footprint and Identity.

• Relationship and Communication.

• Cyberbullying.

• Digital Drama and Hate Speech.

• News and Media Literacy.

Students will be able to:

• Describe and explain some digital terms and what they mean

• Apply what they learned into their experiences

• Analyse different scenarios and relate them to own their experiences

• Evaluate the varieties of methods and create a solution for them.

• Create a unique presentation to share their learning outcomes.

Formative assessments: The teacher will use knowledge-based evaluation methods to organize the learning and scaffold the lessons. Examples are:

• Asking students a question about the topic before we start

• Creating scenarios about the issues and ask the students their opinions.

• Working on online worksheets to reflect on videos

• Group discussions

• Using games to answer questions about the lessons.

Summative assessment: The students will be required to create a multimedia presentation to show their learning outcomes. There will be various activities to choose from, such as:

• interactive poster using Canva

• Short animated movie (Powtoon, Moovly, or iMovie)

• Creating a song or a poem (both in one are preferable)

There will be an evaluation rubric, which will be shared with students, for assessing the final Project.

Week 1 will cover:

• Media Balance and Well-being.

• Privacy and Security.

• Digital Footprint and Identity.

Week2 will cover:

• Relationship and Communication.

• Cyberbullying, Digital Drama, and Hate Speech.

• News and Media Literacy.

Week 3 will cover:

• Final Project/ Summative assessment activity