Standard 4: Digital Citizenship & Responsibility
Candidates demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to model and promote digital citizenship and responsibility.
Candidates demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to model and promote digital citizenship and responsibility.
- Element 4.1 Digital Equity - Candidates model and promote strategies for achieving equitable access to digital tools and resources and technology-related best practices for all students and teachers.
- Element 4.2 Safe, Healthy, Legal & Ethical Use - Candidates model and facilitate the safe, healthy, legal, and ethical uses of digital information and technologies.
- Element 4.3 Diversity, Cultural Understanding & Global Awareness - Candidates model and facilitate the use of digital tools and resources to support diverse student needs, enhance cultural understanding, and increase global awareness.
Digital citizenship is extremely important in 21st century teaching. Teachers and students have instant access to unlimited information. Each person who uses a computer has a responsibility to be respectful and safe. My digital citizenship display was created for a lesson during my Media Specialist practicum. The Media Specialist at CVES was tasked with teaching a grade level appropriate digital citizenship lesson to each class in the school. I wanted to create a display she could use for all grade levels. The digital citizenship display represents Element 4.2 because it represents all the different sections of digital citizenship. The internet and a computer can be a very abstract concept for children (especially the younger grades). I wanted the display to communicate one main point. The people online are the same as the people face-to-face. Strangers are still strangers. Saying hurtful words is till inappropriate. This display needed to appeal to an entire school versus one classroom or one grade level. This assignment supports the role as a Media Specialist because the display educates all the students.
I enjoyed my collaboration unit. I wanted the information to be useful throughout their entire education career. When fifth grade students transition to Middle School they are expected to do regular research for projects. Research can be confusing and sifting through the unlimited information on the internet can overwhelming. This unit represents information and knowledge because the lesson content teaches research strategies. A Media Specialist is an information expert that supports research and growth. Students can become overwhelmed by the amount of information they find on the internet. Research can be a daunting task that takes a large amount of time. The students may take more time researching for a project than creating the actual project. The goal of my collaboration unit is to teach research strategies that cut research time and give better resource options. The students took a pre-test to determine their knowledge of research and the internet.
Pre-Assessment Results: The students were given the questionnaire on research and technology. 22 Students participated in the questionnaire. The following are the questionnaire results that guided the main focus of the lesson:
- All students have used a computer for research.
- 16 students could not identify the key words of three different research topics.
- 17 students did not know there is a difference in websites and domain names.
- 15 students are aware of plagiarism, but over half of the students were unable to identify plagiarism.
- 19 students are aware they should not share personal information online.
- 12 students view online strangers and in person strangers as the same.
- 10 students stated they should not share their password with good friends.
Digital Citizenship Display
Collaboration Lesson
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