Building Better Digital Citizens

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  1. building better digital citizens by Nicole Patillo
  2. first let's start with who is a digital citizen. We all are
  3. digital citizens or people that traverse the internet whether for work,
  4. school commerce or pleasure
  5. by being digital citizens. We also need to exhibit good digital citizenship
  6. which is
  7. the continuously developing norms of appropriate
  8. responsible and empowered technology use according
  9. to mike Ribble digital citizenship really is our behaviors and ethics online.
  10. What we do and how we interact when we're in a digital world as educators,
  11. it's important to make sure we're preparing our students for their
  12. digital future by teaching them how to act online and the repercussions
  13. for not doing so. We want to create good digital citizens
  14. Because good digital citizenship starts with me as educators,
  15. we need to teach our students how to be good digital citizens.
  16. There are two different resources we could use. One is Mike rebels.
  17. nine elements of digital citizenship.
  18. Another
  19. is the international society for technology and education.
  20. Both offer great ideas to use in the classroom
  21. to help our students be better digital citizens.
  22. In this presentation we're going to use reps, respect,
  23. educate and protect as the reference for all of our nine
  24. elements of digital citizenship.
  25. The first one is respect these.
  26. Each deal with how we treat each other online and how we behave.
  27. Let's see how we can be good digital
  28. citizens when it comes to access law and etiquette
  29. let's be honest remote learning was not beneficial to most of our students.
  30. One of the biggest hurdles was access to internet service and devices.
  31. Many families only had phones to access the internet,
  32. which is not conducive to every student working online.
  33. How do we expect them to learn when
  34. they're sharing their only device with three siblings.
  35. Rural areas lacked high,
  36. high speed internet limiting their ability to keep up and
  37. students with special needs easily fell through the cracks.
  38. We can't overlook these issues.
  39. We need to be better prepared so we can support all of our students.
  40. One way to help is to gather information from your class of
  41. students to see who can do remote work and who cannot.
  42. Let's be cognizant of the technology needs
  43. and abilities of our class and respect that
  44. digital law.
  45. Access to pictures, articles, videos, music and other media has never been so open.
  46. However, just because you can access, it doesn't mean you should use it.
  47. Our students know little to nothing about copyright ownership.
  48. Plagiarism, how to use other people's work and thoughts
  49. they need to be taught that there are laws to
  50. use other people's work with consequences for breaking them.
  51. The easiest thing to talk about in school is plagiarism,
  52. teaching our students how to properly use
  53. the information they gathered from different sites,
  54. teaching them how to cite that work.
  55. So they're free from consequences.
  56. Another key topic to discuss is the issue of sexting or sharing explicit explicit
  57. pictures with other teens.
  58. It falls under child pornography and any student found with these images
  59. could be arrested in a time of air dropping and snapping.
  60. It's even more important to have these
  61. conversations before it ruins the student's life.
  62. Digital law is a crucial topic
  63. to teach our students because their actions can have life altering consequences.
  64. We are role models of how our students act online.
  65. What they see adults do they follow while parents
  66. often teach their Children how to act towards adults,
  67. how to respond to people, be respectful.
  68. Many of those rules fall by the wayside as soon as they're on a device.
  69. Often it's because of keyboard courage or many times they
  70. treat all digital communication like they're texting with a friend.
  71. We need to model how to properly interact with others online.
  72. The same we do away, we do in person.
  73. One way is to create, create pretend scenarios discussed ways to respond to others.
  74. Even asking if it would be different if you were online or
  75. in person modeling how to act online is a great way to,
  76. to make sure our students know that being good.
  77. Digital citizens means using manners online and off.
  78. The most pressing thing we can teach our students
  79. is that when they put what they put online,
  80. creates a digital footprint that while they might be
  81. a middle school now can affect their college choices
  82. and their career opportunities if they wouldn't share it
  83. with someone or show it to their grandma,
  84. they may think twice need to think twice about posting
  85. it to their page or texting it to their friends.
  86. If they wouldn't say it in person to someone,
  87. they should probably refrain from doing it online as well.
  88. Next we have e for educate.
  89. Each of these elements deals with how we educate
  90. our students and ourselves to be better digital citizen.
  91. How we understand tools, communicate and exchange goods,
  92. determines the type of digital citizen we are.
  93. How many of us were taught how to use our cell phones or taught our own Children to use.
  94. There's not me seems like a silly question,
  95. but that's often how we teach technology.
  96. We actually don't. We expect students to pick it up on their own or experiment.
  97. Many schools don't teach students how to create a slide deck until high school
  98. when there are many opportunities to use it in middle and elementary as well.
  99. Computer classes on most primary campuses are used for fun games.
  100. I only learned how to play Oregon trail and had to teach
  101. myself how to put together a presentation to write papers with notations.
  102. Shouldn't we be teaching those tools tools they can
  103. use in our classrooms and in their future jobs
  104. offering electives or a mandatory computer skills class in sixth grade would
  105. be beneficial to teaching our students about great technology tools to use.
  106. I tell my students all the time that I read online.
  107. Abraham Lincoln said, you can't believe everything you read on the internet,
  108. only some of them catch the ridiculousness of that reference.
  109. We need to teach teach our students how to look for good resources in addition to
  110. how to use that by educating our students on how to actually use digital tools.
  111. We can help them to make better decisions.
  112. The internet and digital communication are not all bad.
  113. It can give a voice to some of our
  114. students who are uncomfortable speaking up in class.
  115. It can give them a platform to explore who they
  116. are without the eyes of their peers on them.
  117. I had a student who was quiet in class but when I opened
  118. up an opportunity for them to record themselves in a video log vlog,
  119. hers was amazing.
  120. She clearly was comfortable online while in class. She kept to herself,
  121. what a great opportunity for her to shine using blogs,
  122. emails and social media for classroom projects are a great way
  123. to teach students how to communicate properly in different scenarios,
  124. allowing them to use engaging digital tools
  125. can empower students to become good digital citizens
  126. On the flip side of these great tools is the overuse of cellphones and classrooms.
  127. How many of our students communicate with their
  128. friends via cell phone or smart watches during class
  129. setting boundaries for cellphone use,
  130. preferably on a campus level level is imperative to teaching students
  131. that there are times to use your devices and times to not use them.
  132. Well,
  133. we may think it's not our job to make sure
  134. our students are knowledgeable about buying and selling online.
  135. We all know how many purchases we make online. And our students do as well.
  136. I can't tell you how many times I've heard students talking
  137. about purchasing new skins players or packages on their games.
  138. Do they know where that money comes from?
  139. Are they aware enough to know that it's
  140. actual money that's being exchanged or that they're giving
  141. out personal information like credit card numbers or
  142. their parents credit card numbers to unknown companies.
  143. Through some of our C. T.
  144. Career and technical education programs students are going to
  145. be creating items and selling them on online stores.
  146. Do they know the ins and outs of how many works
  147. in a digital environment or the tax benefits for repercussions.
  148. What about Cryptocurrency? I'm not even sure what it is.
  149. How can our students be prepared for a future of digital currencies?
  150. These are things we need to think about in the commerce area of digital citizenship.
  151. The final element is protect how do we protect our students online?
  152. These elements deal with protecting our students and ourselves.
  153. They look at security rights and responsibilities and
  154. our health and wellness impacting our digital world.
  155. We all put sensitive information online.
  156. Use personal information, family photos on a regular basis.
  157. Are these things protected? How strong our passwords.
  158. What about our privacy settings?
  159. We need to make sure our private conversations
  160. are offline and our personal information is protected.
  161. In addition teaching students to create strong passwords that
  162. they don't share with friends is a great lesson
  163. checking what the privacy settings are on
  164. your social media accounts is another great lesson
  165. in addition to your personal security.
  166. How often do you check your equipment and make
  167. sure everything's up to date and performing well.
  168. Use your computer settings to schedule weekly scans for viruses.
  169. A quick tune up once a year on a license with a licensed computer
  170. tech is a great idea to make sure your computer is running well.
  171. Take good care of your equipment so that you can be a better digital citizen
  172. when we're online.
  173. It's easy to assume that others are going to act
  174. in accordance with the rules of the group or page.
  175. However, that is not always accurate.
  176. Do we even know the rules of the pages we visit or the sites on which we interact?
  177. I know I've clicked a number of boxes that say I agree to these terms.
  178. Do I act accordingly? Do I even know what I agreed to?
  179. Our students need to know how to follow the policies of sites thieves,
  180. how to use others work responsibly and how to
  181. report inappropriate behavior on sites they interact with.
  182. The final element is health and wellness.
  183. There are both psychological and physical concerns about the use of digital tools,
  184. spending too much time on the screen can damage your eyesight
  185. as well as cause back pain and other physical ailments.
  186. Teaching students to set boundaries and limits on amount of
  187. time they spend online is a great tool in addition,
  188. teaching them proper techniques for hand placement on keyboards,
  189. sitting up straight, taking frequent breaks can prevent some physical issues.
  190. Addiction to devices or games is a huge cause for concern.
  191. There are stories of people sitting for days and neglecting their well being,
  192. not eating and causing health concerns.
  193. When we choose to cut off real life connections for the sake of time online,
  194. we're losing the ability to interact
  195. and the psychological benefits of friendships.
  196. They're teaching students how to set boundaries and to use tools
  197. to see the amount of screen time they're actually using.
  198. We can help them stay connected and limit the effects on their health and well being.
  199. By exploring these nine elements, modeling,
  200. creating scenarios and talking to our students about digital citizenship,
  201. we can influence them them to be better and do better
  202. online because good digital citizens ship starts with each of us