Four strands on the board: Understanding myself when engaging online, Evaluating online content, Following my interests online, and Publishing online. They build toward one Classroom-Based Assessment: the Student Project.
Today you map your real digital day.
Picture a normal school day from waking up to going to sleep. Which digital tools do you actually touch? You will plot them next as private working notes, not for marking.
A digital footprint is the trail of tools, apps and online places you use in a normal day. Plot yours below.
Work from a normal school day, not a holiday. This is private working notes for you; you choose what you later share with the class.
- Divide the day into rough blocks: morning before school, during school, after school, and evening.
- Under each block, list the digital tools and apps you actually use (phone, laptop, console, school platforms, messaging, social feeds, games, streaming, music, maps, shopping, and anything else that is real for you).
- Beside each one, note what it is for in a few words (for example: chat with friends, homework, short videos, music while studying).
- Mark how often: often (most days), sometimes, or rarely.
- Star one item you would find hardest to give up for a week, and one you could drop fairly easily.
- All four time blocks have at least one real entry (blank is fine only if that block truly has none)
- Each entry has a purpose and an often / sometimes / rarely mark
- You have starred one hard-to-give-up item and one easy-to-drop item
Keep your private map with you. As a class we will build one shared list on the board under the headings. Offer a tool, app or habit from your map when it fits. The class can adopt a starter, reword it, or add a new one. We will mark what we agree is common here. You do not read out your full list.
Our class digital patterns
Pull the maps and the class list together. In one sentence, what does the board suggest about how this class uses digital technology on a normal day?
You have described how you use digital technologies, communication tools and the internet in daily life, and you have seen what is common and what differs across the room. That noticing is the starting point for this course. Later you will judge content, create media of your own, and publish carefully. Today the point is simpler: describe first, judge later.
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