Advisory Bulletin
September 22-16, 2014
Your Digital Footprint – Part 3
Monday, September 22, 2014 Parent/Teacher Conferences
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
a.m. – Morning
Meeting
p.m. – Review digital footprint work so far – brainstorm on white board or with post-it notes, what’s
been covered so far. [Look back on past Bulletins if you need reminders.]
Anonymously write out a problem you have had with social media or texting
or write out one you’ve heard of someone else having. Come back
together as a group to brainstorm options.
Another idea: break into small groups, with each group
handling a different scenario.
If you need to give your group
scenarios:
#1:
Katie signs on to her facebook account and has two messages
in her inbox from friends
at school. They are both angry messages about how Katie should never have posted what she did last night at
2am. Katie runs through her news feed and her
profile and sees that there are two pictures, each of her friends they took when at their last sleep over of them
being silly in funny outfits. They are not the most
flattering pictures of her friends. Katie promises she did not post the pictures.
#2:
Ken is in a group message with all
the guys on his swim team. They are talking about
the girls team and what girls are hot and what girls are not. The guys are commenting back and forth about
everyone equally. The messaging starts to slow down
after about a week and Ken loses interest. Then, Ken finds out there is another message group that was created
that did not include him. The conversation
is exactly the same, but this time the team all the guys are talking about is the volleyball team! Ken’s sister is
on the volleyball team!
#3:
I’m online and I get a friend
request from someone I don’t recognize. I look to see that they have 18 mutual friends with me. Their profile
picture is of them in a group and
they look to be around my age.
#4:
I only gave my password to my best
friend when I was out of town with no internet
connection and wanted her to check my inbox for messages from my teachers about homework. Now I am in
trouble because of an email that was blasted
from my account to the whole middle school. My best friend swears they didn’t send it and didn’t tell anyone of my
password. What should I do?
#5:
I was at the beach with my friends
and I took a picture of myself in my bathing suit
tanning. We both look awesome in the picture so of course I post it to Instagram. I get to school Monday and a bunch
of classmates keep looking at me weird.
I ask what the big deal is, but no one will tell me. When I get home I am on Instagram and I see that our picture
is getting a lot of likes. I don’t see what the big deal is. The next day at school one of my good friends
shows me their phone. My picture is on
the screen, but it is not the same picture I took. It has been altered!
#6:
I have two twitter accounts. One I
let my mom see and one that I like to keep private.
She doesn’t need to know everything that I do. I am in Middle school she needs to trust me. My mom just found my
private account…
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Ask an adult – what were the big
communication challenges of his or her day? How were they handled? What changes has he or
she noticed since the digital
revolution?
The idea behind this: we are in a whole new phase of communication skills development. Often,
adolescents know as much and more than the adults
around them. Hopefully this exercise will impress upon adolescents that they are the vanguard for
responsible digital citizenship. They will be schooling the adults in many
ways. Also: if it feels like a lot to deal with, it is. Today’s parents didn’t have to learn these
same lessons. Today’s kids have to be smarter than yesterday’s kids.
Thursday, September 25,
2014 Holiday – No School
Friday, September 26, 2014
Keystone Game: Standing together shoulder to shoulder with
others in a tight circle, students
slowly lean into the centre as they slide their feet out to create a self-supporting structure.
1. Ask your group to stand in
a tight circle, facing into the center, just touching the shoulders of their
neighbors.
2. Invite everyone to slowly
lean into the circle, without moving their feet.
3. Having established
reasonable balance, explain that you would like each person to slowly – very
slowly – slide their feet backwards as they lean into the center.
4. Announce that the ultimate
goal is for the group to create an evenly-balanced circle in which everyone
feels supported and yet critical to the overall balance of the structure.
5. Allow for as many attempts
as possible, stopping frequently to discuss what is and isn’t working.
6. Keep practicing until they
reach a desired level of challenge, balance and comfort.
7. Process your group’s
experience.
How-To-Play
Narrative:
How often in a program do you ask your group to form a circle?
Well, add one more to the count. But
this time, ask everyone to form as perfect a circle as possible. No bends, no corners, just a perfectly
round-edged circle.
Good, now come in closer, and closer still – until everyone is
just touching the upper arms and shoulders of their neighbors. Stop there.
Your next move is to invite everyone to lean in slowly, without
moving their feet. And as they produce
moderate levels of pressure and balance, to slowly, ever so slowly, start to
slide their feet backwards just a smidge
or two
The objective of this task is to create the impression that
every person is a “keystone” – an engineering term used to describe the
wedge-shaped stone which is placed at the apex of a masonry arch which locks
all of the other stones into position.
In other words, the ultimate goal is to create an evenly
balanced circle in which everyone feels supported and yet critical to the
overall balance of the structure, i.e., as if they were the keystone. Your group should aim to keep this up for as
long as possible.
With each smidgen, review the balance and composure of your
group, and if considered safe, suggest stepping back a little further. Anything up to 1 inch extended back from the
starting position is cool – beyond this point, encourage your group to brace
for a topple, or be ready to stop the exercise.
Invite your group to discuss what is and isn’t working between a
series of attempts, and encourage them to keep practicing until they reach a
desired level of challenge, balance and comfort.
There’s something pretty special about a large group of people
leaning in toward each other attempting to reach that pinnacle of balance,
where just one bad move will cause the pieces to topple. It’s difficult to find this sweet spot, but
worth every effort.
Practical Leadership Tips – Although it seems obvious, it is always a
good idea to remind people that they should take a quick step forward if they
feel that they are going to fall, or if they are experiencing discomfort.
Practice is key.
It’s easy for many groups to quickly become disengaged after a couple of
poor attempts, so look for positives and offer lots of encouragement. It can be done, and the sense of shared
accomplishment when it’s achieved is wonderful.
Useful framing idea: “If
you looked closely as old stone archways and certain other architectural
elements, you may have noticed an object called a ‘keystone.’ Does anyone know what this is? [allow time
for suggestions….] A keystone is, as it
sounds, the key to keeping a particular structure together. This next exercise will provide you each with
the opportunity to be a human keystone.
Debriefing Tips:
»
Our three standard questions.
»
What worked and what did not work to keep the circle evenly
balanced?
»
What adjustments had to be made to achieve the objective?
»
How can we apply any of the design principles here to our
relationships with others?
»
How can we apply the design principles here to our digital
footprints?
»
What do you think is the keystone of healthy, balanced
relationships?
This
video takes about 16 minutes. Please
preview and facilitate a discussion afterward.
Scenarios for
Tuesday (if you want to cut these up and hand them out)
#1:
Katie signs on to her facebook
account and has two messages in her inbox from friends at school. They are both
angry messages about how Katie should never have posted what she did last night
at 2am. Katie runs through her news feed and her profile and sees that there
are two pictures, each of her friends they took when at their last sleep over
of them being silly in funny outfits. They are not the most flattering pictures
of her friends. Katie promises she did not post the pictures.
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#2:
Ken is in a group message with all
the guys on his swim team. They are talking about the girls team and what girls
are hot and what girls are not. The guys are commenting back and forth about
everyone equally. The messaging starts to slow down after about a week and Ken
loses interest. Then, Ken finds out there is another message group that was
created that did not include him. The conversation is exactly the same, but
this time the team all the guys are talking about is the volleyball team! Ken’s
sister is on the volleyball team!
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#3:
I’m online and I get a friend
request from someone I don’t recognize. I look to see that they have 18 mutual
friends with me. Their profile picture is of them in a group and they look to
be around my age.
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#4:
I only gave my password to my best
friend when I was out of town with no internet connection and wanted her to
check my inbox for messages from my teachers about homework. Now I am in
trouble because of an email that was blasted from my account to the whole
middle school. My best friend swears they didn’t send it and didn’t tell anyone
of my password. What should I do?
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#5:
I was at the beach with my friends
and I took a picture of myself in my bathing suit tanning. We both look awesome
in the picture so of course I post it to Instagram. I get to school Monday and
a bunch of classmates keep looking at me weird. I ask what the big deal is, but
no one will tell me. When I get home I am on Instagram and I see that our picture
is getting a lot of likes. I don’t see what the big deal is. The next day at
school one of my good friends shows me their phone. My picture is on the
screen, but it is not the same picture I took. It has been altered!
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#6:
I have two twitter accounts. One I
let my mom see and one that I like to keep private. She doesn’t need to know
everything that I do. I am in Middle school she needs to trust me. My mom just
found my private account…
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