Teens in America are immersed daily in media. In addition to the media exposure related to marketing, teens also have access to and the ability to share and create information in ways previous generations did not. In this DB you are going to examine some of the challenges for health teachers in the 21st century as they prepare teens with the awareness, skills, and education to navigate some of the particular issues facing them in the digital age.
Part 1: (Parts 1 & 2 are due Wednesday by 9 pm) Brainstorm an Initial Idea for Educating Teens Regarding Sexual Health in the Digital Age.
A pre-warning: The article we will be reading on teens, "sexting" and suicide, is tragic and hard to read, but a reality for our times.
First: Read the article "Sexting, Shame and Suicide" by Nina Burleigh (Rolling Stone, 2013) http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/sexting-shame-and-suicide-20130917 (Links to an external site.)
For this first part of the DB, I want you to brainstorm your best idea(s) for how you as a health education teacher would create a teaching and learning unit to help students cope, given a situation such as described in the Rolling Stone article, happened at your school. For this DB -- create a learning unit that addresses all of the following items in your brainstorm idea:
Create a learning goal statement to address all of the following: Using grief and healing in a positive way to create a socially supportive environment where students are empowered to create changes in a way to stop cyber "sexting" and digital sexual assault.
Describe how you will know if the goal(s) of your learning statement has been met. In other words, how will the learning be assessed? How will you know if the students actually can do, know or understand what you wanted them accomplish?
Describe how you would create a program -- with no budget -- to achieve the learning goal, AND how you would involve parents, school staff, and other members of the community to contribute to or be a part of this program.
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