4.2 Safe, Healthy, Legal & Ethical Use
Candidates model and facilitate the safe, healthy, legal, and ethical uses of digital information and technologies. (PSC 4.2/ISTE 5b)
Candidates model and facilitate the safe, healthy, legal, and ethical uses of digital information and technologies. (PSC 4.2/ISTE 5b)
Reflection
This presentation was made to our school leadership team after we decided to make a school-wide effort to put more emphasis on digital citizenship throughout our K-5 curriculum. I worked with our technology specials teacher to identify resources that would help us meet this objective. We identified Common Sense Media’s digital citizenship curriculum and related tools and resources as our primary resource in this presentation. After the leadership team presentation, grade-level leaders took the information back to the rest of the staff in grade-level meetings.
The content in this presentation shows my ability to model legal and ethical uses of digital information. After reviewing many online resources, I felt capable enough to model and share this information with other school leaders in a more formal setting. I taught several model lessons based on this curriculum to K-5 students and collaborated with the technology specials teacher to modify some CSM lessons to more closely meet the needs of our fifth grade students.
One thing that was clear to me throughout this process is that teachers don’t generally have a good idea of what digital citizenship is. Many teachers think only of the online safety component, without considering online etiquette, legal aspects of copyright use, and intentional positive uses of online environments that are also key components. If I had to present this material again, I would like to produce a video starring our teachers and students that would help to increase engagement in a somewhat dry topic. I would also like to develop some guidelines for classroom implementation that give teachers more concrete ideas on how they can incorporate principles of digital citizenship for their particular grade level and subject area.
This presentation helped impact both teacher professional learning and student learning at our school. The presentation was shared with all teachers through grade-level meetings, and students also viewed several of the CSM videos over our school announcements, followed by lessons from both their classroom teacher and the technology specials teacher. Several teachers reported to me that they found natural ways to incorporate digital citizenship components into the online learning they were doing, such as blogging and posting on discussion boards. This impact could be assessed through as ISTE-T and ISTE-S-aligned assessment, such as the one that Learning.com offers. A pre-test and post-test on the digital citizenship domain could show the growth of teachers and students in this area.
The content in this presentation shows my ability to model legal and ethical uses of digital information. After reviewing many online resources, I felt capable enough to model and share this information with other school leaders in a more formal setting. I taught several model lessons based on this curriculum to K-5 students and collaborated with the technology specials teacher to modify some CSM lessons to more closely meet the needs of our fifth grade students.
One thing that was clear to me throughout this process is that teachers don’t generally have a good idea of what digital citizenship is. Many teachers think only of the online safety component, without considering online etiquette, legal aspects of copyright use, and intentional positive uses of online environments that are also key components. If I had to present this material again, I would like to produce a video starring our teachers and students that would help to increase engagement in a somewhat dry topic. I would also like to develop some guidelines for classroom implementation that give teachers more concrete ideas on how they can incorporate principles of digital citizenship for their particular grade level and subject area.
This presentation helped impact both teacher professional learning and student learning at our school. The presentation was shared with all teachers through grade-level meetings, and students also viewed several of the CSM videos over our school announcements, followed by lessons from both their classroom teacher and the technology specials teacher. Several teachers reported to me that they found natural ways to incorporate digital citizenship components into the online learning they were doing, such as blogging and posting on discussion boards. This impact could be assessed through as ISTE-T and ISTE-S-aligned assessment, such as the one that Learning.com offers. A pre-test and post-test on the digital citizenship domain could show the growth of teachers and students in this area.