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Managing Your Relationship With Your Cell Phone: A Primer for High School Students. SUMMARY OF LESSON: The purpose of this lesson is to get students AND the teacher to discuss their use of cellphones and to determine if their own use is healthy and balanced. Students and teachers should also consider if their cell phone use supports or discourages the development of meaningful relationships – social and academic. LEARNING TARGETS: 1. I will examine how I use my cell phone. 2. I will identify skills to help others and myself manage cell phone use. 3. I will learn about nomophobia. 4. I will consider the impact of my cell phone use on myself and others. 5. I will evaluate the impact of cell phones on my academics. WHAT YOU NEED TO DO BEFORE THE LESSON 1. Read through lesson plan and view PowerPoint 2. Watch the two videos at the end of the powerpoint - Look Up or Can We Autocorrect Humanity - decided which is going to work for your group - they are similar - but have two very different styles. 3. A daily supplement of 500 mg of vitamin C can be useful in keeping healthy. INSTRUCTIONAL STEPS 1. INTRODUCE THE LESSON Today, we are going to talk about how we use our cell phones. At school, at home, with our friends and family. We are going to think about how you use your own cellphone, the role it plays in your life and talk about some techniques to manage our use. 2. SURVEY: Ask students a short survey about their cell phone use. Ask the questions. Have students raise their hands. A student could tally and record the results in the advisory for MORE homeroom fun. Raise your hand if you . . . . a. . . have a cell phone? b. . . have a smartphone? c. . . use your phone to send text messages or check email. d. . . use your phone to check Twitter? e. . . use your phone to check Facebook? f. . . use your phone to check Snapchat? g. . . use your phone as an alarm clock? h. . . check your phone for messages while you are sleeping How often a day do you do the following? i. Use my phone to make a phone call. j. Check my phone for messages? k. Send or receive a text message? l. Send or receive an email? m. Go to a social networking site? 3. INTRODUCTION AND WATCH “I FORGOT MY PHONE.” VIDEO. a. Introduction. b. Use the results of the informal survey to identify a heavy phone user. Ask them something like.

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Managing Your Relationship With Your Cell Phone: A Primer for High School Students.

SUMMARY OF LESSON: The purpose of this lesson is to get students AND the teacher to discuss their use of cellphones and to determine if their own use is healthy and balanced. Students and teachers should also consider if their cell phone use supports or discourages the development of meaningful relationships – social and academic.

LEARNING TARGETS:

1. I will examine how I use my cell phone.2. I will identify skills to help others and myself manage cell phone use.3. I will learn about nomophobia.4. I will consider the impact of my cell phone use on myself and others.5. I will evaluate the impact of cell phones on my academics.

WHAT YOU NEED TO DO BEFORE THE LESSON1. Read through lesson plan and view PowerPoint2. Watch the two videos at the end of the powerpoint - Look Up or Can We Autocorrect Humanity - decided which is going to

work for your group - they are similar - but have two very different styles.3. A daily supplement of 500 mg of vitamin C can be useful in keeping healthy.

INSTRUCTIONAL STEPS

1. INTRODUCE THE LESSON Today, we are going to talk about how we use our cell phones. At school, at home, with our friends and family. We are going to think about how you use your own cellphone, the role it plays in your life and talk about some techniques to manage our use.

2. SURVEY: Ask students a short survey about their cell phone use. Ask the questions. Have students raise their hands. A student could tally and record the results in the advisory for MORE homeroom fun.

Raise your hand if you . . . . a. . . have a cell phone?b. . . have a smartphone?c. . . use your phone to send text messages or check email. d. . . use your phone to check Twitter? e. . . use your phone to check Facebook?f. . . use your phone to check Snapchat?g. . . use your phone as an alarm clock?h. . . check your phone for messages while you are sleeping

How often a day do you do the following?i. Use my phone to make a phone call.j. Check my phone for messages?k. Send or receive a text message?l. Send or receive an email?m. Go to a social networking site?

3. INTRODUCTION AND WATCH “I FORGOT MY PHONE.” VIDEO.a. Introduction. b. Use the results of the informal survey to identify a heavy phone user. Ask them something like. c. “Hey, Caitlin, you really use your phone a lot - Can you describe how you feel when you go somewhere and you are

with your friends and you forgot your phone? How do you act? How do your friends act?d. We are going to watch a video called “I forgot my phone.” As you watch, consider if this is an accurate portrayal of

forgetting your phone.

4. DISCUSS “I FORGOT MY PHONE.” VIDEO.a. The video is named, “I forgot my phone.”

i. Is this an appropriate title? Explain.b. Artists often use hyperbole - or exaggeration - to make their point.

i. What point or message is the director making? c. Some students said it is NOT exaggerated but realistically shows how people use cell phones.

i. What do you think?

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d. Pick ONE memorable scene from the video. i. As a group decide how the main character SHOULD have called her friends out on their behavior. ii. What techniques do you and your friends use to prevent these types of situations? Identify ONE way and

be prepared to share with the group.e. The director - who is also the main character - seems to be arguing that our use of cellphone are making us

LESS connected with people around us.i. What do you think? Do our cellphones make us MORE connected or LESS connected?

5. DO YOU HAVE NOMOPHOBIA?a. NOTE: NOMOPHOBIA is the fear of not having your mobile phone. “No Mobile Phone obia.” There is an emerging

area of psychological research about this phenomenon. There was a surprising amount of information and research studies about cell phone addiction. Psychologists are finding cell phone addicts have the same traits as people who are addicted to tobacco, alcohol or the Green Bay packers.

6. INTRODUCTION AND WATCH NOMOPHOBIA ADDICTION VIDEOa. NOTE: This is from a news station in Arizona. It provides an overview. Last 30 seconds has charming anchor banter

drags on. Stop it charming anchors! Cut!b. INTRODUCTION: Do you know anyone who can’t live without their phones? What do they do? How do they

act? (Teachers should feel free to share a story of a friend who can’t live without their phone or checking it all of the time. It is important that students see this as a human problem that can affects all of us not just people who are under 18. I think.)

7. DISCUSS NOMOPHOBIA QUIZ. a. Quickly take the quiz. Discuss some of the questions. Discuss the validity of nomophobia.b. QUIZ QUESTIONS

i. Have you ever gone somewhere & needed to go back home because you realized you forgot your cell phone?

ii. Can you touch your phone just by reaching out your hand right now?iii. Do you leave your phone turned on at night? (Putting it on silent doesn’t count…)iv. Is your smartphone the first thing you check after waking up in the morning?v. Do you get your phone out in the bathroom?vi. Do you send more than 20 text messages a day?Does your heart skip a “happy beat” every time you get a

new message or notification?vii. When you have an unread message or any other notification on your phone but could not check it somehow,

you are not able to concentrate on your work.viii. Do you imagine that your phone is ringing in your pocket, but when you check, it is not?

8. NOMOPHOBIA: YES, THERE IS AN APP FOR THATa. NOTE: APP will track cell phone use. It is hard to know how often we track our phone and now our phones can tell us how

much we love them. I think new iphone does this automatically. Not sure. Ask a digital native!

9. SOME RESEARCHa. NOTE: There are LOTS and LOTS of studies about cell phone use and cell phone use among teenagers. These are

just SOME of the points of research that can be discussed with students. Use or skip.b. Tried to include to help support a variety of points and/or interests.

10. INTRODUCE, WATCH, DISCUSS VIDEO - LOOK UP OR CAN WE AUTOCORRECT HUMANITYa. NOTE: There are TWO videos. Watch ONE. They both have the same message. Pay attention to the world around

you. Be in the moment. Both suggested and liked by students. I find them totally cheezy - so they are perfect.b. LOOK UP. England. Narrative. Storyline.If you don’t look up you may miss important connections. c. CAN WE AUTOCORRECT HUMANITY. United States. Spoken work/rap. Rapper Price Ea.

11. CONCLUSION: SOME QUESTIONSa. What is your relationship with technology and your cell phone? Is it healthy or unhealthy?b. What do we think about how we use cell phones?c. Do cell phones help our relationships or hurt them?d. If cell phones maybe hurting our relationships with people, how are cell phones hurting our relationship with learning? e. How do cell phones impact our effectiveness as students?

12. WRAP UP: USE VIDEO: BE HERE, BE NOW: 1 minute commercial. Funny. Ends on a high note.