Relationships, Community & Mutual Aid

Objectives

• D02.S1.10.01 Evaluate how technology and social media shape communication and use digital tools respectfully.
• D02.S1.10.02 Handle conflict through de-escalation and seek mediation when a conflict is too big to solve alone.
• D02.S2.10.01 Practice cross-cultural empathy by studying a community's history and values from within.
• D02.S2.10.02 Evaluate how digital platforms shape empathy, compassion fatigue, and echo chambers.
• D02.S3.10.01 Evaluate how technology and media create and transform communities and belonging.
• D02.S3.10.02 Explain how local communities connect to regional, national, and global ones.
• D02.S4.10.01 Analyze how technology can enable or undermine cooperation and mutual aid globally.
• D02.S4.10.02 Examine examples of cooperative economies and mutual-aid networks across the world.

Essential questions

• How do I use digital tools respectfully, and how do I de-escalate conflict and seek mediation when it is too big to solve alone?
• How do I practice cross-cultural empathy from within a community's own history, and how do digital platforms shape empathy and echo chambers?
• How do local communities connect to the global, and how can technology enable or undermine cooperation and mutual aid?

Big ideas

• Digital communication can be used respectfully, and conflict is handled through de-escalation and, when needed, mediation.
• Cross-cultural empathy means studying a community's history and values from within, while digital platforms can both expand and narrow empathy.
• Communities connect from local to global, and technology can enable or undermine the cooperation and mutual aid that sustain them.

Lessons

1. 1 Communication, Remixed by Screens 55 minutes
2. 2 Respect in the Feed: Using Digital Tools Well 55 minutes
3. 3 De-escalation: Cooling the Fire Down 55 minutes
4. 4 When It's Too Big: Seeking Mediation 55 minutes
5. 5 Seeing a Community from the Inside 55 minutes
6. 6 History and Values, in Their Own Words 55 minutes
7. 7 Empathy Online: Near, Far, and Worn Thin 55 minutes
8. 8 Echo Chambers: Who's Talking to Me? 55 minutes
9. 9 Building Belonging with Technology 55 minutes
10. 10 From My Street to the Whole World 55 minutes
11. 11 Technology: Cooperation's Tool or Undoer? 55 minutes
12. 12 Co-ops and Mutual Aid Around the World 55 minutes

Assessment plan

Observation of respectful digital communication and de-escalation-and-mediation practice; a cross-cultural empathy study grounded in a community's own history and values; a digital-platforms-and-empathy reflection; a local-to-global community analysis; and a technology-and-mutual-aid analysis with examples of cooperative economies across the world, gathered as portfolio artifacts.