Monday, March 4, 2019

Common Sense Media's New SEL Digital Dilemmas Are Excellent!


Common Sense Media continues to be one of my favorite go-to resources for information about digital citizenship with resources, tips, movie and app reviews, parenting advice and educational curriculum. I frequently recommend it as a resource to parents and schools when I speak and promote it in our Minnetonka Community, too. Our Media Specialists use the Common Sense Media Digital Citizenship curriculum in each of our elementary schools and our secondary schools health teachers integrate some of the lessons into their curriculum.

Common Sense recently released some new Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Digital Citizenship lessons which are excellent and definitely worth checking out. They are in the form of a short one-page PDF lesson. Each of the ten topics, from Sexting to Video Games, begins with a short paragraph scenario called a "Digital Dilemma" which introduces a very realistic scenario faced by teens today. Following this scenario it has Discussion Questions that focus on about four character strengths per dilemma, such as Empathy, Compassion, Integrity, Humility, and Self-Control. Each of these dilemmas is an important topic to talk with tweens and teens about in today's day and age regarding technology use, appropriate behavior, social media, and relationships. Whether you are a parent or educator you can use these Digital Dilemmas to spark great conversations and open the door to talking about these important topics with today's youth!

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