Hello, everyone and welcome to my blog on Digital Citizenship in the classroom! As I am pursuing an elementary K-5 education degree, most of my thoughts will be based on that section of learners. I think teachers should have a one-life perspective on technology in education because it is all around us and inevitable to our current social-community experiences as Ohler mentioned in this article. The Digital Age impacts the children of now with audiobooks, PowerPoint presentations, interactive videos, and other important ways that contribute to learning. As such, we have created a flow for a new perspective in teaching the rights and wrongs of being an informed, good, responsible citizen online. It gives participation and outcomes in Health classes focusing on empathy involving self or others in these online relationships.
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As a future educator, authority, and voice for our schools, I have to question the sources of technology we use today in 2024. This is in light of strengthening internet communities that give people hope or freedom on Discord, Reddit, YouTube, TikTok, Snapchat, and other social media sites. Instead, we have dark, toxic, and insidious users who don’t correctly use the digital web to wreck it for the rest of us. I want to inform the youth about the Saskatchewan Curriculum as a starting point because it does not leave time for safety and ways to appreciate everything around us, like our families and friends (in-person or online). How do we healthily connect and notice the duality of the IRL Fetish? I should try to embrace technology and combine it with the theories that I am being taught during my university education. I will also lead for positive changes, experiment in the future of learning since it will likely never revert, and build relationships in the classroom that have consequences in everything we do—thinking safely, critically, creatively, and in society’s eyes in all forms of citizenship.
Hearing about the limited success of the phone ban highlights the role of the Nine Themes of Digital Citizenship. I want to provide a fair distribution of learning resources on online communication grading platforms like Edsby and Google Classroom that students can freely access from home. They should be taught in group projects to respectfully show their voice and positive collaboration digitally. As a sign of behaviour in my classroom, I would treat conduct the same involving self and others in a set of procedures that must be followed for success. Next, I would consistently implement fluency and digital literacy in ELA classes, tying it to the community by deciphering fake news or literary texts. We have a responsibility to help understand and protect the students so they can achieve a healthy, law-abiding, and preciously observant digital presence in life.
DC Progression Chart by Mike Ribble
Overall, I will be Savvy with a one-life perspective using the Digital Citizenship Progression Chart at whatever grade level I teach in the future. Another tool following the same principles closer to home in our province is Saskatchewan’s Digital Citizenship in Schools and its continuum. Learning about Digital Technology never ends, and I will continue to expand my efforts with evolving resources or skills in my education tool bag. Thanks for reading my blog post, and I hope you have a marvellous day!
Digital Citizenship Continuum guideline from the Government of Saskatchewan
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