Today's job is to open Module 2 and draft Reflective Journal Entry 4 on your digital life right now. You will also speak a short take of that entry from notes.
Module 1 was about personal and social communication, and an anchor text your class chose. Module 2 turns to the texts you already meet every day on screens: messages, feeds, search results, school emails, shop replies, short videos.
Before you write, open your Communication Portfolio and tick what Module 1 pieces are already there, using the Key Assignment check in last lesson's Module 1 Reflection: identity entry, three covers, dialogue with named contribution, drafted and edited piece, and anchor-text journal entry. If something is still missing, finish it outside this lesson; it does not stop you writing Entry 4 today.
Three terms for this module, then one strong journal opening to show you the shape.
| Term | What it means for you | Real example |
|---|---|---|
| Digital text: any message that lives on a screen. | You will treat a notification or a caption with the same care you gave a page of prose. | A health-service appointment text (for example from the HSE), a school email, a shop return reply |
| Digital identity: the version of you other people and platforms can see or build. | Entry 4 starts from what is already out there about you, not from a made-up self. | A tagged photo a friend posted, a school email with your name in the thread, a search result for your name |
| Module focus: the job this block of lessons is built to do. | Module 2 focuses on everyday digital texts: identity, safety, research, and citizenship through texts you already meet on screens. | Four Key Assignments: a website analysis, a class safety charter, a presentation on a global app, a journal update |
Marked exemplar (opening of a strong Entry 4):
"Most mornings I unlock my phone before I speak to anyone. The first three things I see are usually a group chat, a short video, and a school email I half-read. That is already three digital texts, and I have not left the house. What worries me is how easy it is to reply without thinking. What I want from this module is to notice what I am putting out, and who it is for."
That opening does three jobs: what I do, what I worry about, what I want to learn. Build Entry 4 the same way.
Everyday screen messages count as digital texts: a lock-screen notification, a bus timetable, a shop return reply, a short video caption, a school email. Some are written for you; some for thousands of people. Your digital identity is not only what you mean to show. It is also what platforms keep, what other people post about you, and what a stranger could find if they searched your name.
Use that frame to write three short personal notes for Entry 4. They are working notes, not a Portfolio filing.
This step is a working draft and redraft check for Reflective Journal Entry 4. Use the three jobs and your inventory notes. Mark weak lines, then rewrite once on the page.
Spend most of this block on the on-page draft and redraft (about 15 to 18 minutes). Keep the last stretch (about 5 to 6 minutes) to copy the final Entry 4 into your own Reflective Journal document and file a copy in your Communication Portfolio before the spoken take.
Take the entry you just drafted. Say one thing you do online, one worry, and one hope for Module 2. Speak it from short notes, not from reading the full page.
Recording in the activity keeps your transcript and timings, never the audio: that transcript is your record. Not recording? Deliver to a partner and get a one-line sign-off.
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