Activity 4

Social Media for Social Change

Grade level: 10^th graders

Language objectives:

• Students will be able to practice and use the grammar structure of present tense
• Students will create a Venn diagram

Content objectives:

• Students will develop and discuss ideas about social change through media
• Students will explore the possibilities of Facebook as a political arena
• Students will look at benefits and negatives of Facebook as a campaigning area

The activities cover at least two competence aims after year 10:

• Create, communicate and converse about own texts inspired by English literature, films and cultural forms of expression
• Select different digital resources and other aids and use them in an independent manner in own language learning
  (Udir, 2016)

This is an analyzing activity with the power words develop, mind-mapping and explore. The technology used in this activity is within the social media, and will depend on what students use the most. In this example the teacher chose Facebook as the social media. This is an interdisciplinary activity between English and social studies.

Into: 

The into-activity will develop over time. Students will be assigned to follow Facebook campaigns in political campaigns as they progress.

Through:

The students will analyze a Facebook campaign and write down what the pros and cons of using Facebook as a campaigning arena are. This will be done individually using a Venn diagram.

Beyond: 

Towards the end of class, the students will be divided into groups of 3. They will then present their diagrams to each other, and discuss what the benefits of campaigning through social media are.   

Sources:

Utdanningsdirektoratet. (downloaded 15. October 2016). English subject curriculum.  http://www.udir.no/kl06/eng1-03/Hele/Kompetansemaal/kompetansemal-etter-10.-arstrinn/?lplang=eng