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Group Members: **Rasha Abdallah** **Sahar Farouk** **Lobna Ibrahim** **Lamees Khairy**

= ** Group one is honored to introduce this unit about SOCIAL MEDIA .It is mainly based on the concept of BACKWARD Design. ** =

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** Unit ** : **Social Media** ** For Grade: 10**



﻿Social Media
 * INTRODUCTION: **

**Social Media** websites are primarily internet-based tools for sharing and discussing information among human beings. The term most often refers to activities that integrate technology, social interaction, and the construction of words, pictures, videos and audio. This interaction, and the manner in which this information is presented, depends on the varied perspectives and building  of shared meaning among communities, as people share their stories and experiences.

** USEFUL TERMS: ** (1) **Web 2.0** is a term describing changing trends in the use of world wide web technology and web design that aims to enhance creativity, secure information sharing collaboration and functionality of the web.

(2) **A blog** (a blend of the term //web log//) is a type of website or part of a website. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video.

**Watch this video for more clarification**

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Stage 1: Desired Results **___** =__ REMARK: __= // The Goals are interdisciplinary meeting the standards of more than one subject //
 * ESTABLISHED GOALS (G): **

** (1) Students will be able to demonstrate/show understanding of the following: **  **(‍Social studies- NC.2 Core Skills)** // The learner will acquire strategies to access a variety of sources, and use appropriate research skills to gather info using diverse modalities // **__(__English- Domain 3- standard 5)** //Read critically to interpret and evaluate the content of various reading texts.//
 * ** the concept of social media as a primarily internet based tools for sharing and discussing information among human beings. **
 * ** examples of some popular social media websites: Facebook, twitter , blogs, Youtube.....etc **
 * ** the role of social media in certain life aspects as a popular tool. **
 * ** the importance of social media as one of the smartest methods in marketing, teaching, relationships, education, press, tourism ......etc. **

**(2) Students will be able to demonstrate/show understanding of the difference between regular media (e.g. reading newspapers or listening to a report on television) and social media (e.g. Facebook, twitter, blogs, Youtube.....etc)** ** (‍Social studies-NC2.01) **// Using appropriate source of information // <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**(English-Domain 5-standard 3**) //use simple and complex grammatical structures to communicate meaning.//

<span style="direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;">** (3) Students will be able to demonstrate/show the side effects of the excessive and miss-use of the technology of the social media regarding time and health. ** = (Science- HE.B.2.3,4) =

<span style="color: navy; direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;">**(4) Students should be able to identify the percentage number of people who now completely depend on social media in their work, study, fun and compare their life style to that in the past before such a technology take place.** == <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"> (‍Social studies-NC2.05) // transferring information from one medium to another such as from written to visual and statistical to graphical //. **(**<span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed;">**Science- standard 3 (sc.H.3.4)** //their understanding that science, technology and society are interwoven and interdependent.//

<span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #000000; direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: 'Cooper Black'; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;">__Sources__ <span style="color: #003300; direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: 'Bernard MT Condensed'; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-color: #fffa00; color: #003300; direction: ltr; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%; unicode-bidi: embed;">Social studies: North Carolina State Standards for Social studies: <span style="color: #003300; direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: 'Bernard MT Condensed'; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-color: #fffa00; color: #003300; direction: ltr; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%; unicode-bidi: embed;">Science: Florida Sunshine standards for science <span style="color: #003300; direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: 'Bernard MT Condensed'; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="background-color: #fffa00; color: #003300; direction: ltr; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%; unicode-bidi: embed;">English : NAQAAE ======== <span style="color: maroon; direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;">**ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:** (Q)
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 170%;">What is the meaning of the term social media ?
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 170%;">Why is it considered as a 2.0 web site?
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 170%;">Are you a user of any social media website?
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 170%;">Did you ever use the social media to interact with the surrounding world regarding any of the following activities: communicating with your friends on facebook, buying or selling, online services of hospitals, schools, shops, read a book or follow the daily news.....etc
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 170%;">Do you know the differences between regular media and social media? How is social media better to communicate with others?
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 170%;">How many hours do you usually spend on the facebook or any other social website? Do you think it is growing to be a habit for most people?
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 170%;">If it is a habit, how harmful this habit can be and are there any serious side effects that people should reconsider?
 * 8) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 170%;">Do agree with the great philosopher Andrew Keen who criticized the social media in his book THE CULT OF THE AMATEUR  saying that the social networks grew too big and became a monopoly as this tends to limit innovation?
 * 9) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 170%;">What would be the percentage of the number of people who uses the social media for buying and selling things, for interacting with others, to run their business, or just to have fun?
 * 10) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 170%;">What are the ideal hours of sitting in front of the computer or laptop device?

====== ** Understandings: (U) ** <span style="color: black; direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;">Students will understand….. <span style="color: black; direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -18pt; unicode-bidi: embed;">1. Social media as a concept is a very effective way of communication and in web 2.0 terms this would be a website that doesn't just give you information, but interacts with you while giving you that information.2. Social media is a 2 way communication method while the regular one is only a one way method.3. Social media websites can be useful in different ways eg. many hospitals and clinics started using Facebook as a way of effective communication method with their patients.4. Apart from simply able to communicate with friends in different parts of the world the social media can be as complex as FLIXTER recommending movies to you based on the ratings of other people with similar interests or buying and selling different objects.5. Social media websites like the YouTube have been used effectively by the students and the teachers in the field of education to obtain the latest lesson plans and videos for an easier explanation within the classroom.6. Social media can be very harmful and time consuming if miss used by the teenagers and the adolescents.They spend hours on the computers to chat on the facebook instead of working on a school project.

====== ** Students will know:(K) **
 * <span style="color: black; direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;">Key term social media and its relation to what is called web 2.0.
 * <span style="color: black; direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;">The students should get to know the different kinds of social media websites and should be able to give reasons why some of these web sites are popular than others.
 * <span style="color: black; direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;">Students should know that social media websites haven't only been used for social communication, but it has been used as an effective means of communication in many other fields such as: health care hospitals and clinics, marketing, education, press .....etc
 * <span style="color: black; direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;">There are negative sides for the miss use of the social media regarding health and time consuming.
 * <span style="color: black; direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;">Students should be able to compare between our life style before and after the integration of social media technology.
 * <span style="color: black; direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;">The students will learn how the different types of graphs such as bar graph, pie graph ...etc
 * <span style="color: windowtext; direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;">the differences between formal and informal English.
 * <span style="color: windowtext; direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;">how to reflect on listening texts from a variety of media sources.
 * <span style="color: windowtext; direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;">how to take notes from various types of listening texts.

‍‍ ** Students will be able to:(S) ** <span style="color: windowtext; direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;">. == **<span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Stage 2﻿: ** == **<span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Assessment Evidence﻿ ** =__ PERFORMANCE TASK (1) : __= ====The students will divided in 3 groups.Each group will have to design a brochure which is titled "" Social Media Beginner Guide "" ==== ====this brochure is meant to address those who are ""Social Media  illiterate .Using their computer knowledge and skills they should be able to design an attractive brochure with the help of a computer program called the publisher.The brochure should include the following items :====
 * <span style="color: black; direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;">Read, interpret and differentiate between the various types of social media.
 * <span style="color: black; direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;">Analyze the positive and the negative effects of the social media on our life style and the ways of communication recently.
 * <span style="color: black; direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;">Students based on their understanding of the social media concept and their effective usage they should be able to design a social media beginner guide that will include all the needed information about what are these social media websites all about and how usefull they can be in some fields.
 * <span style="color: black; direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;">Students will learn how to collect data about the no of people who uses the social media technology.
 * <span style="color: black; direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;">Students will learn how to calculate the percentage of the no of people and plot it on a pie or bar chart graphs
 * <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 3pt 0cm 3pt 36pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;">Listen to summarize, make judgments, and evaluate.
 * <span style="color: windowtext; direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;">Use different tenses and reporting verbs.
 * <span style="color: windowtext; direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;">Listen critically to interpret and evaluate the content of various listening texts.
 * <span style="color: windowtext; direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;">Compare related information from a variety of media sources.
 * <span style="color: windowtext; direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;">develop a paragraph
 * ====A simplified definition about the term Social Media and its various types .====
 * ====A historical biography about the development of media starting from the regular ones the newspapers to the most developed social websites nowadays.====
 * ====The students should survey some of the most used social media websites in our country and compare them with the most used in other countries .Here they can plot a graph to be able to notice the difference.====
 * ====Give life examples how social media changed our social life style ,and how the recent social media websites played a grate role in certain life incidents around the world.====
 * ====The brochure should include medical tips about how to overcome the miss use of technology specially for adolescence and teenagers .====
 * ====The students should also design a questioner for the readers to whether or not the use any kind of social media websites before, how beneficial they found it , did they enjoy using the technology and how connected or disconnected this technology made them to the world====

=__ PERFORMANCE TASK (2) : __= You have a blog for friends which is visited by others too. Your school was one of the places that was allocated for the last referendum. You've decided to write down a report on what happened, analyzing why people said 'Yes' or 'No', how social media influenced their decision. Data are to be collected through a designed questionnaires, surveys and interviews. Use charts to show the percentage. Tape your interviews to be uploaded later. End your report with your remarks on the outward physical appearance for those who surfs the net, e.g. wear glasses, are overweight and with a hint on why you didn't send this report to a local newspaper. Publish it on a real blog on the internet

=__ Rubrics for the 2 Tasks : __=

**1** || **Meet expectations**
 * || **Need improvement**
 * 2 ** || ** Exceeds Expectations **
 * 3 ** ||
 * <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;">** Collected Evidence ** || <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"> 1 or 2 evidences only are used . 1/3 || <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"> 2 or 3 evidences only are used . 1/3 || <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"> more than 4 evidences only are used . 3/3 ||
 * <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;">** Points covered ** || <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"> less than half of the points asked are covered .1/3 || <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"> half of the points asked are covered .2/3 || <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"> all points are covered .3/3 ||
 * **Design** || <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;">The overall look is disorganized, not formatted. Only one illustrators is used. It's hand written with many spelling mistakes 1/3 || <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;">The overall look is good and is formatted fairly. Two illustrators are used. It's typed with a computer program but with some spelling and grammatical mistakes.2/3 || <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;">The overall look of the product is attractive, well formatted. More than two illustrators are used .It's typed with a computer program with no spelling and grammatical mistakes.3/3 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||


 * Other Evidence: **

**Quizez**: - Compare regular media to social ones - State different types of media

**A Prompt**: Describe 2 health problems that can arise from the overuse of social media

**Self Assessment**: - Write a refection on your brochure - Write a refection on your report on your blog

== **<span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Stage 3﻿: ** == **<span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Learning Plan **

**W: Where Unit is going** In this unit you will be able to make a brochure and a blog using technology tools and analyzing social media subject. In order to do this you will need to know an understanding of social media. Students have to fill in 3 columns 'What do you know about social media?' 'What do you want to know about social media?' 'What misconceptions have you cleared up about social media?'

**H: Hook the students** Show the students a video describing the idea of Social Media in an easy way, this video is called In Plain English it is very useful for the students to have a look at it. <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;">Log them to the internet in the lab to show them famous blogs <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;">Show them the Page "We are all Khaled Saeed" <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;">Articles on the side effects of using the computer for hours <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;">Show them a video where advice on how to use the computer safely

**E: Equip/explore/experience**

<span style="color: #000000; direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;">Equip: Reading to show historical development of social media. Discussions to compare regular media to modern ones, activities to and language functions in the unit. Writing to use the grammatical skills

<span style="color: #000000; direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;">Explore: compare physical appearance between those who use and don't use the net. Take them to the computer lab and make them use the Facebook or any other media to gather information about a certain news and compare it with the same news in an ordinary newspaper which of the did spread the news on a wider scale.

<span style="color: #000000; direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;">Experience: Activities to go along with the lessons, activate prior knowledge on the various subjects **R: Rethink/ Revise**

<span style="direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;">Rethinking of the role of social media which is a double edged weapon Compare and contrast between the social life before and after social media websites are mostly used and popular.

**E: evaluate**

<span style="direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;">Assessments and Reflections Quizzes will be used for the students to self assess their performance and knowledge about the concept of Social Media Performance tasks will be another reflection of the students understanding of the lesson by designing the brochure which is called Social Media beginner Guide they will demonstrate complete understanding of the lesson.

**T: tailored/flexible**

<span style="direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;">Reading, Computer, field research Students will use their own Blogs to discuss the last referendum results in Egypt and hoe the Social Media influenced in people saying NO  or YES. Conclude the unit with the students self evaluation about whether or not Social Media  websites play a great role in interacting with the other world and has other useful usages in marketing, education , ...and so on.

**O: organized**

<span style="direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;">First week: Historical development of social media <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;">Second Week: Comparison between regular media and social media Third week: The side effects of the over use of social media

learning Activities (what activities will prepare the learners so they will be successful on the performance task ?)

Before During After Design a complete pursuer full with all data well colored, full of pictures free from spelling and grammar mistakes.
 * collect information about the people who use computers,people who use special sites such as twitter,face book,blog Youtube
 * start to classify the people who use such media ask them about their health,some symptoms, headache, backbone ache,sensitivity in their eyes
 * draw a bar graph,and a pie to demonstrate your results.
 * Use these information ,questioning ,and summarizing through written response.
 * Try to pick some pictures for different people using their computers at different time during the day.
 * students will then present their articles through seminar.

Day 1 (suggested Sunday) Where the unit is going? Fill up the three columns. Hook:you tube video for different uses of the media
 * youtube video for overuse of the media

Day 2 Monday Equip the students with computers in the computer lab to help them Experience the key ideas.

Day 3 Tuesday Provide opportunity to let them organize their information and revise them to be connected.

Day 4 Wednesday Allow students to Evaluate their work, tables,percentages of the overuse media,the percentage of those who never use this tool before.

Day 5 Thursday Be Tailored to their needs,interests what the problems they face,in doing such brochure Day 7 the final organization to present their brochure ,and discus with the students what they get learn from the whole task.