Last year, our school adopted Schoology as our Learning Management System (LMS). We use the platform to communicate with students and parents, share classroom materials, collect homework, assign quizzes, and record grades. We jokingly call Schoology "Facebook for education," and our students sometimes use it as such - posting announcements, sharing pictures, or sharing articles.
Once our students embraced the social media aspect of Schoology, they started uploading profile pictures and writing bios - all the things one would normally do on any other social media platform. The problem we were noticing, though, is that our students more often than not have inappropriate profile pictures for a professional social media platform. When grading we find ourselves having to stare at animated gifs or photos of celebrities or pouty, emo selfies of our students. So, in collaboration with Ron (our Tech Coordinator) and Dana (our science teacher), I helped design a lesson that would teach students about the importance of establishing a professional digital identity, and provide them with tips for how to develop that identity - starting with their Schoology profile picture. This lesson is intended to be given in our homerooms, to all students, in the first week of school next year. The lesson plan, slide deck, and exit ticket are embedded below.
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