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Week 0 Option — About Me Smartphone
Run the current student lesson with its existing evidence, resources, and submission route.
Daily Learning Contract
Topic: Privacy-safe digital identity
Objective: Students will distinguish information that is appropriate to share in a classroom artifact from information that should remain private.
TEKS: No independent Grade 8 Technology Applications TEKS claim. This lesson provides operational, preparatory, or cross-curricular evidence.
Demonstration of learning: Completed About Me Smartphone artifact or page response plus a brief explanation of one privacy-safe choice.
Use what is already in Canvas
Student-facing task: OPTION · About Me Smartphone. Keep the current student page, requirements, points, and rubric as the source of truth.
- Existing option page
- approved teacher template/materials
- optional About Me + What Is VILS Canva template
Before students begin
- Open the student task in Student View and test the exact sign-in, link, file, or submission path students will use.
- Prepare only the listed existing materials; do not require a personal account or a new unlisted product.
- Keep the current student page available as the accessible and absence route.
Lesson flow
- 1. Launch: Put the purpose in front of students: Students will share chosen facts in a bounded, privacy-safe format.
- 2. Model: Use one current example, tool, or teacher resource before students begin community-building digital identity.
- 3. Guide: Complete the first decision or step together; conference before students commit to a direction.
- 4. Build: Students complete the existing Canvas task. Do not add a second product or change the current rubric.
- 5. Check + next step: Verify this evidence before students leave: Completed About Me Smartphone artifact or page response.
Scaffolds and teacher decisions
Keep the student lesson's bilingual tabs, word bank, models, and current support route in view while students work. Reduce the number of examples or provide a partially completed planning frame before reducing the evidence. If a student needs an alternate format, preserve the same named evidence and use the current rubric or teacher judgment rather than adding a hidden requirement.
Close the loop
Use the current Canvas submission for grading. Record the specific misconception, access issue, or revision need you observed; use it to choose the next lesson's launch rather than creating a duplicate exit assignment.