Digital citizenship is similar to being a citizen. You must obey the laws and rules but it is also important to give back to your community. Digital citizenship is not only about following the rules, but it is also about helping to create a positive, supportive environment and footprint in the digital community. Overall, I have learned more than I thought I already knew about digital citizenship and the impacts technology has in our daily lives. My greatest accomplishment for this course was writing my culminating paper, video and mantra. I really appreciated the time I was given to bring the course all together in a thoughtful and memorable way. My greatest challenge was completing all of the work as there was much more to accomplish each week than I am used to. While this course was very different from the other classwork in the Digital Learning and Leading program I believe this course challenged my growth mindset and determination to learn and understand the content in a different way than I am used to. The work I am most proud of is my culminating paper. While I was writing it it really helped me to bring what I have learned together, making connections and then sharing what I have learned in a written piece. I took a lot of time to work on this and feel very proud of the end product. Teaching kindergarteners in a digital word is very interesting. Many of my students are still learning technology basics (i.e. mouse, keyboard, typing, searching) while others are familiar with the different technology tools and feel comfortable exploring, creating and guiding their own learning. No matter what level my students are at I think it is important to begin in Kindergarten to teacher digital citizenship. After completing this course, I would like to talk more to my students about digital communication teaching them how to respond to each other in a positive way, encouraging each other. I think by doing this at a young age they can learn early on to have a positive attitude when it comes to digitally communicating. Overall I would say the most useful thing I have learned from this course was about cyberbullying. At the kindergarten level, students are still new to school and pretty innocent. It is pretty rare to see any type of bullying. After reading about cyberbullying and the deaths of some students it really made me open my eyes to how mean some kids can be and how we need to encourage our students to speak up, be strong and stay positive when it comes to bullying. This is something that can begin to be taught at any age! Now that I have completed this course I hope to change the way I teach my students to communicate digitally with each other and help them to embrace their own digital footprints. I also have a new awareness of my own digital footprint and will be thinking of my impact anytime I am posting. I hope I can now be a good role model for my students and coworkers and can teach others to be responsible, respectful and safe when it comes to digital citizenship. My favorite part about this course was the discussions. It seemed like schools are all over the board when it comes to digital citizenship. I enjoyed talking with other people from other states and districts to hear how they or their district implements digital citizenship and being able to compare each reflection. It was interesting to see schools that can be different but all still trying to help students to be safe and responsible when it comes to using technology. My suggestions for other students taking this course is to keep up with all of the readings, videos and assignments. I luckily did this course but I don’t think I would have been able to make things up if I didn’t get them done on time. Plan our your time and manage your tasks. Chunk away piece by piece until it is finished. And when finally do finish you will feel very knowledgeable in digital citizenship and accomplished for taking on the challenging tasks. If I could have changed one of the activities from this course I would have changed some of the copyright case studies. I feel like those did not really help me understand copyright as well as the videos and lecture. I really liked the reflection journal because it got me to take what I have learned that week and put it together to help solidify my learning and understanding of the weeks lesson. If I had the chance to talk to my friends and give them my personal opinion about this course I would say that although the format made learning difficult as I often felt rushed, now that I have completed the course I am very proud of myself for sticking through it! #GrowthMindset I have learned more than what I thought I already knew and feel more prepared when it comes to teaching digital citizenship. Free-Photos. (n.d.). No name. [Image]. Attribution: PhotosForClass.com.
Rawpizel. (n.dn). No name. [Image]. Attribution: PhotosForClass.com. Zeitfaenger.at (2014). ...Nest generation. [Image]. Attribution: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 & PhotosForClass.com.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
|