Standard IV
Promote and model digital citizenship and responsibility
Teachers understand local and global societal issues and responsibilities in an evolving digital culture and exhibit legal and ethical behavior in their professional practices.
Reflections and Artifacts
For standard IV, I chose the tutorial on Yammer because it is a closed system very similar to Facebook but without the distractions. Teachers and students can share and socialize with each other in a safe place but teachers can also create other groups that allow student to socialize with students from all over the world. It allows for safe social interactions, and puts all students on a level playing field when interacting online. The younger children can benefit from a safe place to learn digital etiquette in an environment that feels much like the social media tools that exist elsewhere. Information can be shared easily in an entertaining way on a global scale. In looking through my artifacts, I found that I had created a mini history lesson based on the 2008 Presidential election using Voicethread. I didn't realize that some of my artifacts would last for eight years and that the 2016 elections would be so similar to the ones in 2008. Important lessons could be gained from allowing students to document news events currently happening, and compare and contrast events in the future. Voicethread is a tool that would benefit students that have different learning styles. In this case, students from America could create threads about their own presidential process and collaborate with students from other countries to each compare the process in their countries, if they even have a democratic election process. My final artifact for this standard is a paper written on the legal issues concerning children. The internet can be a dangerous place and it is of the utmost importance that we, as educators, do our best to protect the children that have been entrusted into our care. The classroom should be a safe environment centered on learning where parents are confident that we have their children's best interests at heart. The paper itself lays out the case for advocating for a safe Internet for our children. Schools are doing their best to create safe learning environments free from legal issues and have much more important tasks than the legal issues that confront them and eat up valuable resources. It is of the utmost importance that schools model and teach safe, legal, and ethical use of the Internet in their classrooms. At the same time, the community and legal system should hold schools harmless if they have adhered to their policies and provided a best effort to keep the children safe.
Promote and model digital citizenship and responsibility
Teachers understand local and global societal issues and responsibilities in an evolving digital culture and exhibit legal and ethical behavior in their professional practices.
- Advocate, model, and teach safe, legal, and ethical use of digital information and technology, including respect for copyright, intellectual property, and the appropriate documentation of sources
- Address the diverse needs of all learners by using learner-centered strategies providing equitable access to appropriate digital tools and resources
- Promote and model digital etiquette and responsible social interactions related to the use of technology and information
- Develop and model cultural understanding and global awareness by engaging with colleagues and students of other cultures using digital age communication and collaboration tools
Reflections and Artifacts
For standard IV, I chose the tutorial on Yammer because it is a closed system very similar to Facebook but without the distractions. Teachers and students can share and socialize with each other in a safe place but teachers can also create other groups that allow student to socialize with students from all over the world. It allows for safe social interactions, and puts all students on a level playing field when interacting online. The younger children can benefit from a safe place to learn digital etiquette in an environment that feels much like the social media tools that exist elsewhere. Information can be shared easily in an entertaining way on a global scale. In looking through my artifacts, I found that I had created a mini history lesson based on the 2008 Presidential election using Voicethread. I didn't realize that some of my artifacts would last for eight years and that the 2016 elections would be so similar to the ones in 2008. Important lessons could be gained from allowing students to document news events currently happening, and compare and contrast events in the future. Voicethread is a tool that would benefit students that have different learning styles. In this case, students from America could create threads about their own presidential process and collaborate with students from other countries to each compare the process in their countries, if they even have a democratic election process. My final artifact for this standard is a paper written on the legal issues concerning children. The internet can be a dangerous place and it is of the utmost importance that we, as educators, do our best to protect the children that have been entrusted into our care. The classroom should be a safe environment centered on learning where parents are confident that we have their children's best interests at heart. The paper itself lays out the case for advocating for a safe Internet for our children. Schools are doing their best to create safe learning environments free from legal issues and have much more important tasks than the legal issues that confront them and eat up valuable resources. It is of the utmost importance that schools model and teach safe, legal, and ethical use of the Internet in their classrooms. At the same time, the community and legal system should hold schools harmless if they have adhered to their policies and provided a best effort to keep the children safe.
Future Learning Goals
I would like to attend more conferences and expand my knowledge. Encourage teachers to try to collaborate with teachers/people from other countries on how they utilize technology in their country. I would also enjoy pushing my teachers to do the same. Countries like India and China are growing their students, and our inner cities could learn from what they are doing. Collaborating with teachers in Finland would be interesting, and might bring us new information on teaching and learning that we have not thought about in the past. I believe I need to develop material that not only guides student to remain safe online but also instills in them the values of good digital citizenship and teachers digital etiquette. We do not currently do an adequate job of incorporating these lessons into our daily classroom tasks. I would also like to push our lawmakers to remove some of the burdensome regulations they tax our resources and draw our focus away from our most important task, that being to educate children.
I would like to attend more conferences and expand my knowledge. Encourage teachers to try to collaborate with teachers/people from other countries on how they utilize technology in their country. I would also enjoy pushing my teachers to do the same. Countries like India and China are growing their students, and our inner cities could learn from what they are doing. Collaborating with teachers in Finland would be interesting, and might bring us new information on teaching and learning that we have not thought about in the past. I believe I need to develop material that not only guides student to remain safe online but also instills in them the values of good digital citizenship and teachers digital etiquette. We do not currently do an adequate job of incorporating these lessons into our daily classroom tasks. I would also like to push our lawmakers to remove some of the burdensome regulations they tax our resources and draw our focus away from our most important task, that being to educate children.