I currently teach Seniors, 12th grade, Government and Economics at my school site. A lot of my assignments are asking my students to write and support their claims with primary resources to get them ready when they go to college. Some of the work students submit has some sort of plagiarism in their writing, due to intentional or unintentional reasons. I believe teaching Digital Citizenship to our students is a valuable lesson that needs to be taught because a lot of our students do not understand what they do online has positive and negative consequences. We need to teach these types of strategies to our students entering who are in 21st century of education.
I am happy that FSUSD, especially at my school site, our librarian and tech liaison teaches these type of lesson to our students about digital citizenship for the past few years. Teachers makes an appointment with these two ladies to bring their classes to the library and they will quickly teach them the good, the bad, and the ugly of being online. I like this also because it gives us teachers one day of freedom to catch up on grading or lesson planning. The sooner we can teach our students about this topic, the sooner they will be ready for the 21st century. The three ways I would make learning digital citizenship personal for your students are: #1. Just like in the video,Making Digital Citizenship Personal, I would bring up case studies for students to read, interact, and reflect on. This is an excellent technique and goes well with the lessons I try to teach my students about Government and being proactive. #2 I would allow my students to explore and play with the Digital Compass for them to understand their actions while online have positive and negative effects for them now and in their future. Lastly #3, I would have my students read and reflect on the article, How to Keep Your College Admission Offer: Start With Digital Literacy, because most of my students are planning to apply or transfer to a four year college and in the 21st century many colleges are not just reviewing students college application but also researching them through Social Network Sites to determine whether or not this student is "college material."
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Samuel Urena
5/29/2018 03:18:50 pm
Trying to picture myself in your classroom it does make sense that tying in lessons on how to practice healthy digital citizenship can work out. I also agree with you on how making these lessons personal is a great way to get students engaged and hopefully have them connect this with their personal lives. Especially if you could find case studies that in their age range and maybe even possibly something not necessarily local but close that happened with teenagers from not being good digital citizens. Because having to talk to about a local issue can be a bit distracting of having kids wanting to know who the people in the articles or news stories are. Now I teach mostly freshmen and if I try to find a game like Digital Compass, as mentioned in your blog, I am uncertain on how serious they will be playing the game. You said you have 12th graders. How would that look in your class. I am curious to hear more about this if you have an idea. That would be really cool! And finally I totally agree with your reflection portion on how you would apply this to your class. As an AVID teacher, we do a lot of assignments that require some sort of verbal or written reflection. I really take advantage of those to get a level of student understanding of the lesson and also what worked and what didn’t work for them. This allows me to reflect on my own practice in the classroom. Student reflections are a great tool for us teachers, I think!
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Adam Levine
6/2/2018 10:14:00 am
Mac, I love the idea of using "How to Keep Your College Admissions Offer". We teach a lot of the same kids, and I know that we have some college bound students who could still use some lessons on digital citizenship. Kuddos to you on using that.
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Scott Marsden
6/2/2018 09:43:56 pm
James,
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