Welcome to Digital Media Literacy. Over this course you will get better at four things you already do online: understanding your own habits, judging whether what you see is worth trusting, following the things you are interested in, and publishing your own work. Near the end you will put all of it into one project of your own.
Today you start with yourself. Your digital day is everything you do on a phone, a computer or a console from waking up to going to sleep; some people call it your digital footprint. You will make a card about it: one page of pictures and words, built on screen, that shows what a normal day online is really like for you.
Picture a normal school day from waking up to going to sleep. Which digital tools do you actually touch? You will build them next into a card of your own. Nothing today is graded.
Make a card about your own digital day: one square page of pictures and words, built on screen, that someone else would stop and look at. Not a list. The instructions and the picture library are in the tool below.
Every picture in the library says whether it is free to reuse, needs a credit, or is off limits, and one of them will refuse to be placed. Check before you place a picture, and open Credits at the end for anything that needs crediting.
Your work saves as you go. Use the save button to keep a copy on your own device, and send it to your teacher with the button underneath, because three or four cards are going up on the board in a minute with the names hidden.
My digital day
Keep your card open in front of you, because in a minute three or four cards will go up on the board with the names hidden, and the game is to guess whose is whose and say what gave it away. What gives a card away is usually something a lot of people in this class do too, and that is exactly what we are looking for.
After the guessing, we build one shared list on the board together. It has three headings: messaging and social; video, music and games; and school and learning. Under each one you can offer a tool, an app or a habit from your own card. Some lines are already there to start you off; the class can keep one as it is, reword it, or add something new. Then we mark the ones we agree are common in this class on a normal school day. You do not have to name everything on your card, only what you are happy to share.
Our class digital patterns
Pull the cards 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 looked at how you actually spend your day online, and seen what is common in this class and what is different. That is the starting point for everything else in this course: later you will judge what you see, make media of your own, and publish it carefully. Today the job was simpler: describe first, judge later.
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