Carol Todd had detailed the story of Amanda. I feel so sad for the young girl. She was beautiful; she dreamed to become a superstar. Unfortunately, the little angel had gone forever. That makes me feel that we should take the issue more seriously. We should teach children how to protect themselves online right way! Children were given cell phones, ipads, laptops, and other technological devices before they really know how to use them appropriately. Some people may think children are young, they don’t know much about Internet. However, the danger is that young people don’t know much about Internet. For example, most children are on Facebook, they share almost everything on line to their followers. Do they know everything they share online would leave footprints? Kids will go and grab apps from anywhere; there may “bad” things in those apps. There are bunch of ads on website pages, kids would click on them just because curiosity. Kids go into the world of Internet before they knew the rules. They need to know the rules; we have to teach them those tools and devices. They should know how to protect themselves online. Here is a video we can share to young children: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgCNGvL0g1g
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Teaching digital citizenship is a big challenge for us. We live in a world that technology changes faster than we do. We may probably meet the challenge that we teacher do not know a new technology. How to teach when we don’t have the tools or skills to effectively integrate new technology into our own classroom? We may sometimes have the situation that cannot get enough support from school. I have been worked in an elementary school; they only have 30 laptops, some are broken. The whole school students have to share 30 laptops. Teachers and Students lack access to technology in classroom. The most important challenge is how to teach students to protect themselves online. Most younger people even adults have little knowledge about online-abuse. They may have little idea about what possible danger they may encounter, like cyberbullying, sexting, cheating, plagiarizing, etc. It is challenged because we cannot always know what students would do online. And it is hard to teach when we ourselves do not know how danger would come. Like Treaty Education, Digital Citizenship Education is mandated in curriculum. Schools and teachers are required to teach about it. It is important to find connections between digital citizenship and the Saskatchewan curriculum. We can connect with Health curricular; issues like cyberbullying can bring huge influence on students’ emotional and mental health. For English Language Arts (ELA), when we teach students about identity, it is important to teach digital identity as well. In law class, we could talk about the digital law. Unfortunately, I did not fine many connections, but I think there are still room there for digital citizenship education to fit in. I want know more about teaching digital citizenship in classroom. Unfortunately, not so much educators address digital education in reality. We teachers should take digital education seriously. Citizenship education aims to teach students and younger generation how to live and act appropriately in our living society. Well, digital citizenship is to help children and young people know how to use technology and live in online world appropriately. Unlike us, children nowadays are born in technology and they have little knowledge and ability to use Internet properly. Too often we are seeing students even adults misusing and abusing technology but not sure what to do. It is our responsibility to teach and help students understand technology and learn how to use it. I found a web says we could start with “9 Key Ps”. Passwords: we should teach students how to create higher-level secure passwords, especially for online banking and email. Avoid using the same password for all their accounts. Privacy: encourage students to be aware of protecting their private information like address, email, and phone number. Personal information: remind them to be careful what they share online. Photographs: they should know that not to post any picture showing their location or important privacy. Some facial recognition software can find them by inserting their latitude and longitude in the picture -- even if they aren't tagged. Property: teach students about copyright and how to generate a license for their own works. “Some students will search Google Images and copy anything they see, assuming they have the rights. Sometimes they'll even cite "Google Images" as the source. We have to teach them that Google Images compiles content from a variety of sources. Students have to go to the source, see if they have permission to use the graphic, and then cite that source.” Permission: show students how to get permission and how to cite properly. Protection: teach students knowledge about viruses, malware, phishing, ransomware, and identity theft, and how to protect themselves online. Professionalism: how to act professionally online when necessary. Personal Brand: let students be aware of what they do and share online and help them realize that they all have a “digital tattoo” online. https://www.edutopia.org/blog/digital-citizenship-need-to-know-vicki-davis http://www.digitalcitizenship.net/ Video from: www.youtube.com When we enjoying the convenience and entertainment that the Internet brings to us, we should take our digital identities seriously. Almost all website requires our personal information to sign up or create an account. It is really important to be aware of the Internet safety and digital identity. In China, some people would “steal” your account and change your password. They pretend to be you and deceive your family and friends for money. One time I could not log in my QQ (an online chatting app) and I realized that someone “stole” my account. Then I called my family and friends tried to tell them that wasn’t me. They said the guy pretend me and asked money from them. Fortunately, they did not believe that guy. I changed my password and got my account back. Lots of my friends have been experienced losing their accounts. As educators, we should teach our kids to be aware of their digital safety and preserve their online identities. We should help them know that every time they get online they will leave a digital footprint. If we Google our names, we would realize that whatever we do online are making us become more and more traceable. We need to teach students to be aware of what they post and share online. As educators, we should role model for students and show them how to keep themselves safe online. A digital footprint is like the Internet would remember what we did online. We could ask students to think about what would people learn about them if they look them up online and are there anything they don’t want other people know. Share with students:
I found a website that show us how to teach students about digital identity; there are some nice videos that we could share with our kids. http://floydboe.sharpschool.net/blog/One.aspx?portalId=11494286&postId=14692025&portletAction=viewpost One of the reasons why we call our kids the NEW GENERATION is that they were born into a world of technology. As Alec Couros mentions, “59% of kids under the age of 10 have a social networking account.” That’s a big number. Technology is everywhere; it’s shaping our society and people. We can almost do everything online; many people nowadays have an online life. We are not just join technologies; we participate. As an educator, there is a question that really needed to be concerned: Since kids can learn everything online, what’s the point of having teacher? But don’t get me wrong; I’m not saying that we should quit what we were doing. Instead, we better think about how to use technology to educate our students. The first issue that I want to talk about is that don’t make assumptions. In other words, don’t assume our kids are all good at technologies. Last semester I was doing my pre-internship with a grade 6 class. One time my co-op teacher asked me to teach students how to do research online for their jot notes. My co-op teacher said that those grade 6s just copy down the few sentences under the title (e.g. Wikipedia) of the search results page, they do not click the title and go in there. My co-op teacher said that these students need more time to type and find the page I asked. Even I showed them exactly on the projector, some still get confused. That was my problem. I made assumption and I thought they know technologies. However, they may good at playing games, finding YouTube videos, but they do not do research often. So, we should teach students how to use technology appropriately. It is a big challenge for teachers nowadays when technology devices like phones, ipads, and laptops detract younger people. They are more interesting than learning. Children love playing; when they find there are more “fun” in video games, Facebook, Twitter, and even YouTube, they would have more passion on them. It is hard for children and young people to pay more attention on things they do not interested. Unfortunately, learning could sometimes be very boring especially when the subject is too difficult. If students found learning is hard and boring, they are hardly want to learn. Even adults, we often distract by some other stuffs on the Internet when we were supposed to study or work. But we could use technology as a tool for education. We could ask students to play Math games or show video in class; just use technology to make learning more “fun”. What’s more, it is our responsibilities to teach students how to select information online. Kids are more easily to trust whatever online and never make any judge or even think about it. We should ask them to be aware of the information online and help them to be critical thinkers. For instance, we could suggest students to view more websites when they search something rather than just take the idea from one single resource. Helping students understand the difference among different websites and their purposes; teach kids how to use them effectively. If we know the better way to use technology, it would be a benefit for education. here to edit. Image from: https://www.pinterest.com/crhebert/one-ipad-one-classroom/ I'm not a a super fan of Twitter, but I do like it. Twitter is still new to me so far. I came from a different background; I have a better social networking with people from my county. Fortunately, twitter could help me fit in the community that I currently within. I will know what happens around me in the world without going out. I can learn a lot from people from different field. Twitting is pretty good! For personal reason I usually not so active on Twitter or any other social networking sites. I often hiding under the water and see what happen to other people in the world. I like that. I do agree twitter is helpful for our students. Twitter helps we teacher build closer relationship with our students. We could know each other better to some degrees. Twitter is a nice and easy way for us to follow and make connections with our kids. It could be a good tool for Education. I'd like to learn more about twitter. Video from www.youtube.com |
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