My Media Use: A Personal Challenge

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My Media Use:
A Personal
Challenge

DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP | GRADE 7

Poll

What is your strategy for finding media balance?

• I don't have a strategy for media balance.

• What is media balance?

• I track how much time I spend online.

• My parents/ teachers control my media use.

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Make an inventory of media choices
and how those choices make us feel.

Brainstorm personal strategies for balancing
media use.

Create personal guidelines to promote
healthy media balance.

Learning Objectives

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Open Ended

Without looking inside your bag or backpack ...

Make a list of everything in there. Take 60 seconds to make
the most complete list you can.

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KEY VOCABULARY

Inventory

A complete list of items or actions

​Remember this!

Categorize

Options (16)

What kinds of media you're consuming (or creating)?

What device(s) are you using to consume (or create) the media?

Is the content high quality or low quality?

What time of the day or week are you consuming
(or creating) the media?

What else is happening when you are online? (during dinnertime, right after waking up, etc.)?

How much are you consuming?

How long did you spend consuming (or creating) the media?

How often do you consume
the media?

Does the content have a positive or negative tone?

Do you respect the people you engage with online? Do others respect you?

Are you spending time with others in real life or online mostly?

Do you do the same activity digitally or do you participate in a variety of online activities?

Do you have a balance of offline and online activities?

Do you have time for sleep, for just being bored, to learn new hobbies, or for daydreaming?

When around other people can you stop looking at your device?

Are you using media to connect or to escape?

Organize these options into the right categories

to help you make an inventory of activities for a healthy media plan

What?

When?

How Much?

Who?

Labelling

This comes from the Center for Humane Technologies study from 2018.

Label the time when user feel the most happiness and the most sadness.

Drag labels to their correct position on the image

Most sad

Most happy

Open Ended

What stands out
to you the most from that graph on the previous slide?

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KEY VOCABULARY

Media balance

Using media in a way that feels healthy and in balance with other
life activities (family, friends, school, hobbies, etc.)

​Remember this!

Drag and Drop

Media balance is using media in a way that feels​

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​ and balanced with other life activities that include​

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Drag these tiles and drop them in the correct blank above

uncomfortable

restrictive

healthy

family

friends

school

hobbies

strangers

destructive

loneliness

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KEY VOCABULARY

Guideline

A set of criteria or piece of advice for how to do something

​Remember this!

Open Ended

Answer the 3 questions about Yesterday Morning:

1. * What media did you use?

* How much time did you spend?

• * How did it make you feel?

Open Ended

Answer the 3 questions about Yesterday Afternoon:

1. * What media did you use?

* How much time did you spend?

• * How did it make you feel?

Open Ended

Answer the 3 questions about Last Night:

1. * What media did you use?

* How much time did you spend?

• * How did it make you feel?

Open Ended

1. Which of your media choices give you the most benefits? What are those benefits?

Video Response

Personal challenge: What is one step you can take right now to be more media balanced?

Record a video of you explaining a concrete and actionable step you will take.

In your response, include any challenges you might face and how you will address them.

Open Video Recorder

Multiple Choice

When we think about our own media choices, we should consider:

• Who, what, when, where, and why

• Reading, writing, and arithmetic

• What, when, how much, and how we feel when interacting with media and others

Multiple Choice

Select the statement that describes healthy media balance?

• The goal of a healthy media-balance plan is to use as little media as possible.

• ​​​​​​​If you follow a healthy media-balance plan, you use digital media for one hour a day. 

• A media-balance plan may change over time as a person's interests and schedules change. 

Multiple Choice

Maya enjoys staying connected with friends on social media. Lately she's started to get a lot of notifications on her phone. Maya opens the app every time she sees a notification and is beginning to feel anxious about checking her friends' posts right away. What could Maya do to maintain a healthy media balance for herself?

• Maya could complain to her friends.

• ​​​​​​​Maya could change her phone settings so she does not receive notifications that distract her. 

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  ​​​​​​​Maya could respond to her friends' posts, telling them how annoying they are.

• Maya could delete her account and never use social media again.

Multiple Choice

Ravi is learning to play the guitar and hopes to be in a band someday. He watches videos of people playing song covers so he can learn from them, but he usually spends more time watching videos than practicing. Whenever he picks up his guitar, he feels a little frustrated. Why might Ravi consider taking a break from the videos?

• The videos are not helpful and might encourage him to learn a different instrument.

• ​​​​​​​He might feel less frustrated if he spends more time practicing.

• ​​​​​​​He might be inspired to listen to a new artist.

• ​​​​​​​He likes watching the videos, so he should continue watching them to be less frustrated.

Poll

How confident do you feel in being able to find media balance in your life? 

• ​​​​​​​I feel very confident.

• ​​​​​​​I feel somewhat confident.

• I do not feel confident.

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