The document outlines an approach to character education based on 6 pillars: morals, citizenship, relationships, communication, functionality, and ethical decision making. It provides examples of how technology like QR codes, blogs, and Photoshop can be used to teach and assess the pillars. It also describes a 3 day lesson plan for teaching anti-bullying to high school students through a YouTube video, web quest, and marble activity experiment. The conclusion reinforces the importance of character education.

1. 6 Pillars: Character
Education
By: Kevin Hall, Deanna Davis,
Rebekah Zuberbueller, Taylor
Olsson

2. Character Education is...
 Morals
 Citizenship
 Relationships
 Communication

3. Importance and Role
 Functionality
 Ethical
Decisions
 Resolving
 Self
Conflicts
respect/ self image

4. Implementing Technology
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
QR’s – bonus for doing acts of
kindness
Voki’s – create a voki that shows
good manners
Twitter – create three tweets showing
manners including #manners
Blogger – create a blog of how you
feel where our morals are today
Photoshop – create an example of
citizenship

5. Teaching Anti-Bullying to High
School Students

Day 1: YouTube video for introduction.
To This Day
Journal
Anonymous Poll
Class discussion

6. Teaching Anti-Bullying to High
School Students

Day 2: Web Quest
Links, research
Statistics
Journal, Prevention (What can you do?)
Attributes: self discovery, expression, thinking
outside of the box, seeing impacting facts
about subject

7. Teaching Anti-Bulling To High
School Students

Day 3: Marble Activity
Bag of different marbles
Each person blindfolded
Each person draws random marble and tries to
identify
Note that its difficult
Attributes: Hands on.

8. Conclusion

Why Character
Education?

9. Works Cited

Koyczan, S. (Producer) (2013). To this
day [Theater]. Available from
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltun
92DfnPY