What did I know and what did I think about this topic before class? What am I curious about and would like to know about this topic?
I am not sure what digital citizenship, so the tools to use for preparing for class will be very helpful. I believe it has something to do with how students are protecting their technology use and as a teacher I need to find an effective way to teach that to them. I am curious to learn a lot more about the topic considering I do not know much. I would like to know how to effectively teach digital citizenship to my future students while covering all the necessary topics.
What did I learn through my preparation for class?
As I prepared for class I created a digital passport as a student and played all the games for that cover the topics of digital citizenship. This was a fun interactive website that can create easy learning for the students. This is the link: https://www.digitalpassport.org/student/landingpage. I think younger students can really benefit from this and it can show awareness on digital citizenship without the students even realizing they are learning something very important.
I continued on my preparation for class I followed the links given. Helen gave us a great website that directs us to other sites on digital citizenship so I had a lot to explore. I was very curious to learn how to implement the teaching of online safety without scary younger students away from the Internet. I found this page; http://www.edutopia.org/blog/social-media-school-teaching-safety-virtual-playground. Teaching Safety on the Virtual Playground was an article written by Mary Beth Hertz, as I began to read I noticed that she someone eases her way into the lesson. She begins the year with her students by reading the book, lol…OMG. Throughout the book it discusses stories, scenarios, and policies on technological safety. It’s important to inform all students of this because they need to know the harmful use of the Internet just as well as the positive use. This article gave me a quick understanding of how to engage older students on such an important topic.
Additional resources that I found on this topic:
I found this site: http://www.digizen.org/kids/, which is a fun interactive site that goes over all the necessary elements of digital citizenships. It has several videos on each topic showing students discussing what it is. It shows the students things they can do for digital citizenship, it shows what to explore to further their learning on this topic, and what is important for the students to know for online safety, security, etc. Digizen is not only for kids but parents and teachers as well. It’s important for kids to be able to ask questions, and their elders being able to answer them correctly regarding digital citizenship. It’s a crucial matter all students working on the Internet need to know.
I also found this website: http://www.digitalcitizenship.nsw.edu.au/Prim_Splash/index.htm. This is another interactive website that guides each user through different activities. The main page asks if you are the primary user (student), secondary user (teacher), or a parent. It’s important to indicate the difference to your students between primary and secondary so they are aware which link is for them. Once the students select primary, they are given the option of playing informative games, watching videos on digital citizenship, and learning activities that direct you to different pages of the site to create interactive learning for the students. I like this link as well because just like the other, it keeps the parents and teachers involved yet allows the students explore on their own.
What did I learn in class this week on this topic?
How did my understanding and thinking about the topic change through this process?
I learned a lot of information in class this week on digital citizenship. I didn’t realize all the different factors that come into play when discussing digital citizenship with your students. In class we separated into groups and each covered some of the topics (there was a total of nine). The nine factors include: privacy & security, self-image & identity, cyber-bullying, relationships & communication, digital footprint & reputation, Internet safety, information literacy, and creative credit & copyright. Each of those topics has a big effect in digital citizenship and I learned the important of them all is immense. My understanding was completely cleared up once class was completed this week, I am glad this was a topic we covered because I believe it is one of the most important yet one of the least informed.
I am not sure what digital citizenship, so the tools to use for preparing for class will be very helpful. I believe it has something to do with how students are protecting their technology use and as a teacher I need to find an effective way to teach that to them. I am curious to learn a lot more about the topic considering I do not know much. I would like to know how to effectively teach digital citizenship to my future students while covering all the necessary topics.
What did I learn through my preparation for class?
As I prepared for class I created a digital passport as a student and played all the games for that cover the topics of digital citizenship. This was a fun interactive website that can create easy learning for the students. This is the link: https://www.digitalpassport.org/student/landingpage. I think younger students can really benefit from this and it can show awareness on digital citizenship without the students even realizing they are learning something very important.
I continued on my preparation for class I followed the links given. Helen gave us a great website that directs us to other sites on digital citizenship so I had a lot to explore. I was very curious to learn how to implement the teaching of online safety without scary younger students away from the Internet. I found this page; http://www.edutopia.org/blog/social-media-school-teaching-safety-virtual-playground. Teaching Safety on the Virtual Playground was an article written by Mary Beth Hertz, as I began to read I noticed that she someone eases her way into the lesson. She begins the year with her students by reading the book, lol…OMG. Throughout the book it discusses stories, scenarios, and policies on technological safety. It’s important to inform all students of this because they need to know the harmful use of the Internet just as well as the positive use. This article gave me a quick understanding of how to engage older students on such an important topic.
Additional resources that I found on this topic:
I found this site: http://www.digizen.org/kids/, which is a fun interactive site that goes over all the necessary elements of digital citizenships. It has several videos on each topic showing students discussing what it is. It shows the students things they can do for digital citizenship, it shows what to explore to further their learning on this topic, and what is important for the students to know for online safety, security, etc. Digizen is not only for kids but parents and teachers as well. It’s important for kids to be able to ask questions, and their elders being able to answer them correctly regarding digital citizenship. It’s a crucial matter all students working on the Internet need to know.
I also found this website: http://www.digitalcitizenship.nsw.edu.au/Prim_Splash/index.htm. This is another interactive website that guides each user through different activities. The main page asks if you are the primary user (student), secondary user (teacher), or a parent. It’s important to indicate the difference to your students between primary and secondary so they are aware which link is for them. Once the students select primary, they are given the option of playing informative games, watching videos on digital citizenship, and learning activities that direct you to different pages of the site to create interactive learning for the students. I like this link as well because just like the other, it keeps the parents and teachers involved yet allows the students explore on their own.
What did I learn in class this week on this topic?
How did my understanding and thinking about the topic change through this process?
I learned a lot of information in class this week on digital citizenship. I didn’t realize all the different factors that come into play when discussing digital citizenship with your students. In class we separated into groups and each covered some of the topics (there was a total of nine). The nine factors include: privacy & security, self-image & identity, cyber-bullying, relationships & communication, digital footprint & reputation, Internet safety, information literacy, and creative credit & copyright. Each of those topics has a big effect in digital citizenship and I learned the important of them all is immense. My understanding was completely cleared up once class was completed this week, I am glad this was a topic we covered because I believe it is one of the most important yet one of the least informed.