Sunday, April 11, 2010

Journal #8 – Navigate the Digital Rapids - IV, V

Lindsay, J., & Davis, V. (2010). Navigate the digital papids. L&L—Learning & Leading with Technology, 37(6), Retrieved from http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Publications/LL/LLIssues/Volume3720092010/MarchAprilNo6/Navigate_the_Digital_Rapids.htm

Digital citizenship is about transforming myself into a professional who can effectively research technology trends, monitor the uses of technology in your school or district, avoid the fear factor that can easily paralyze you, and empower student-centered learning to create vibrant, exciting learning projects. Students thrive on customized tools, such as mobile technology, and customized learning environments. If I can involve my students in student-centered, globally connected projects, each student's learning experience cna become markedly different, and each classroom can become as unique as the students and teachers who learn there. A customized classroom and national standards can coexist and lead to rich learning.

Connecting students to other classrooms requires teachers to have a good understanding of how the technology works, especially the collaborative Web 2.0 tools, such as wikis, nings, and blogging platforms. They need to develop their own personal learning networks and have some understanding of what connected learning looks like and how to harness its power. Teachers need to monitor and become engaged in what their students are doing. Sometimes participants slip into a social-network mode of communicating. They may use textspeak or even inappropriate language, or they might upload pictures that are not acceptable in all global classrooms. This is where teachers must monitor in an engaged manner.

In Flat Classroom projects, teachers strictly moderate all online collaborative and networking sites for membership and content. When students step over the line, all teachers must understand the process to deal with it. The classroom teacher decides the appropriate action, which may include asking the student to apologize to the educational network or, in some cases, suspending or even banning the student from the network. We need to educate students as soon as they start using digital tools for communication, collaboration, and creation through connections online or offline. We encourage productive interactions and opportunities for students to connect and share differences and learn from experience how to respond and reach out to others in an appropriate way. The time to foster this is during their school years and in more controlled environments where good online citizenship practices can be molded.
As a teacher will I encounter this?

Technology today has become such a primary use in our everyday activity. Children as young as preschool are learning how to use computesr and children are being taught about the Internet in the elementary level. As a future teacher, I will be required to teach my teachers about the use of computers and I will need to teach them about Internet safety.

How will I teach my students about Internet safety and what is appropriate?

Many schools are offering workshops that students must attend to explain to students about the Internet and what is allowed at school. There are also monitoring websites that I can look at to see what my students are doing online and whether of not it is appropriate. If it is not, then I will take necessary active into account.

No comments:

Post a Comment