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Please describe how you model an understanding of the social, ethical, and legal issues and responsibilities related to our evolving digital culture and how you use this understanding to positively impact your students and/or team members.
Digital citizenship is online safety... and so much more. It encompasses safe searching, filters, security, appropriate communication, and protecting personal information as well as creating appropriate content, copyright, etiquette, ethics, social skills, collaboration, affiliation, authorship, and accountability. It is not just acceptable use, but responsible use. It is understanding that the virtual world should not be different from the “real world”. There are real people with real feelings behind all the tweets, posts, and avatars. Every person is a citizen online, just like in the real world.
As an Educational Technology Specialist, I am able to teach digital citizenship skills to students, parents, teachers, and administrators. For example, I have designed a professional development course which includes a class designed to teach educators digital citizenship concepts like Internet safety, online etiquette, responsible use, copyright, and understanding our district’s Acceptable Use Policy. This course also introduces educators to available resources related to these topics, such as UEN’s NetSafeUtah and the NetSmartz program.
I also provide one-on-one help, professional development classes, faculty meeting presentations, and model lessons for educators. Each of these is an opportunity to show educators how powerful an online presence can be for them and for their students. For example, I help educators create blogs and podcasts. I teach them to publish student work outside of the school -- linked to a local newspaper or community website. I try to help them understand that while we do need to ensure online safety, we should not create fear of the online world.
I love teaching lessons about podcasting and film creation. In these lessons the students and I discuss concepts of digital citizenship, like understanding copyright and Creative Commons, safe online searches, protecting personal information, and communicating with parents before posting online. We talk about online publishing and how to have an appropriate and effective online presence. I encourage the students to take ownership and responsibility for their all of their online contributions.
I help principals plan and implement family technology nights to encourage parent awareness of and involvement in their child’s digital world. For example, I planned a presentation for one school’s family tech night about the school’s use of Twitter and YouTube. I helped another school display student technology projects at their Parent/Teacher Conferences and plan to hold technology mini-classes at their Back to School Night to allow parents to experience some of the technology-based assignments their children are participating in so they can better understand how to reinforce positive digital citizenship.
I attend professional conferences, such as UCET, EduBloggerCon, ISTE, and C-Forum in an effort to stay well-informed and share ideas about digital citizenship. I have been interviewed by local news channels and newspapers about how parents can help their children use technology responsibly. I use Web 2.0 tools, build my Personal Learning Network, keep a blog, and use social media in appropriate and effective ways so that I can be a model digital citizen.
Please describe how you model an understanding of the social, ethical, and legal issues and responsibilities related to our evolving digital culture and how you use this understanding to positively impact your students and/or team members.
Digital citizenship is online safety... and so much more. It encompasses safe searching, filters, security, appropriate communication, and protecting personal information as well as creating appropriate content, copyright, etiquette, ethics, social skills, collaboration, affiliation, authorship, and accountability. It is not just acceptable use, but responsible use. It is understanding that the virtual world should not be different from the “real world”. There are real people with real feelings behind all the tweets, posts, and avatars. Every person is a citizen online, just like in the real world.
As an Educational Technology Specialist, I am able to teach digital citizenship skills to students, parents, teachers, and administrators. For example, I have designed a professional development course which includes a class designed to teach educators digital citizenship concepts like Internet safety, online etiquette, responsible use, copyright, and understanding our district’s Acceptable Use Policy. This course also introduces educators to available resources related to these topics, such as UEN’s NetSafeUtah and the NetSmartz program.
I also provide one-on-one help, professional development classes, faculty meeting presentations, and model lessons for educators. Each of these is an opportunity to show educators how powerful an online presence can be for them and for their students. For example, I help educators create blogs and podcasts. I teach them to publish student work outside of the school -- linked to a local newspaper or community website. I try to help them understand that while we do need to ensure online safety, we should not create fear of the online world.
I love teaching lessons about podcasting and film creation. In these lessons the students and I discuss concepts of digital citizenship, like understanding copyright and Creative Commons, safe online searches, protecting personal information, and communicating with parents before posting online. We talk about online publishing and how to have an appropriate and effective online presence. I encourage the students to take ownership and responsibility for their all of their online contributions.
I help principals plan and implement family technology nights to encourage parent awareness of and involvement in their child’s digital world. For example, I planned a presentation for one school’s family tech night about the school’s use of Twitter and YouTube. I helped another school display student technology projects at their Parent/Teacher Conferences and plan to hold technology mini-classes at their Back to School Night to allow parents to experience some of the technology-based assignments their children are participating in so they can better understand how to reinforce positive digital citizenship.
I attend professional conferences, such as UCET, EduBloggerCon, ISTE, and C-Forum in an effort to stay well-informed and share ideas about digital citizenship. I have been interviewed by local news channels and newspapers about how parents can help their children use technology responsibly. I use Web 2.0 tools, build my Personal Learning Network, keep a blog, and use social media in appropriate and effective ways so that I can be a model digital citizen.