Kids now in age use technology at a very early age. Take my 1 year old son, he loves watching cartoons on his tablet. Not to mention my 4 year old daughter she loves watching videos of children playing with different toys. Children are expose to technology at a very early age. As a third grade teacher I believe my students will truly benefit from learning about digital citizenship and how to communicate safely.
Every year I start off my school year by teaching students the classroom and school rules. This year my first lesson was about bullying. There was a section in the workbook that spoke about cyber bullying. I thought this would be a great spot to add digital citizenship and talk about digital communication. Google's Be Internet Awesome has lessons that are adaptable by grade and some cool games to go along with those lessons. I really like the lesson titled "Share with Care" because it has different lesson activities that will help students communicate safely online. I would use this lesson as an additional lesson on the first week of school. Since I teach students about bullying I can add on the "Share with Care" lesson and talk about how sharing someone else's secrete or posting something about another person can be called cyber bullying. After having taught the "Share with Care" lesson I could do an additional lesson also from Be Internet Awesome called "Privacy in Practice", which is about teaching students when and how to share someones privacy. I has students reading through different scenarios of what would be the correct thing to do in each situation. To close the lesson it has students go and play a game online line called Interland: Mindful Mountain, which reinforces the whole idea of communicating or sharing with care. In addition I also looked at common sense media and I really liked that it had activities for parents to do. They had a log in sheet where parents could log in the minutes/hours spent using a specific technology ex: using a smart phone or tablet to watch a movie or to listen to music, or watch videos. Parents would log in how much time as a family they spend on these devices and what they are dong on them. I really liked this log especially for parents of students in younger grades like k-3. I could use this as the first week homework for students and parents so that I can see how much time students spend online. This could also be a huge eye opener for parents to have to log in what their children are watching and for how long. I am not a technology person, but I do want to learn to use more of it in my classroom. I am very excited for what is to come and looking into different technology tools that would work for my classroom.
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Scott Marsden
2/6/2018 07:13:22 pm
I really like how you are applying the information from class to your own practice. That's what this class is all about!
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Madeleine O'Rear
2/6/2018 07:19:50 pm
Mayra, I really liked the idea of using these lessons on digital citizenship and communication at the beginning of the year. I think that it is always really important to start the year out well and with very clear expectations. This would show your students from the beginning of the year that you have an expectation of how they will conduct themselves online. I also really liked the log that you mentioned towards the end of my blog. I know many of my students go home and use one form of technology or the other pretty much from when they get home to when they go to bed. This log would help parents realize just how many hours a day their kids are spending on technology. Thanks for the great ideas!
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Teresa Barron
2/6/2018 09:04:07 pm
I like the idea about incorporating digital citizenship lessons through out the curriculum, but even more so at the beginning of the year. As I completed the readings and the different assignments for this class, I found myself asking, "Why are these lessons not included on the list of tasks to complete the first few days of school and throughout the year?" We expect our students to learn and follow our rules and procedures when they are interacting with each other in person and now that we have chrome book access for all students, I believe we should also expect them to learn and display the same respect when it comes to interaction online.
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