Wow, I can't believe I made it....this was sooo hard and I still don't really feel like I'm a 'digital citizen'! Perhaps with more practice, it will become easier. I am a diagnostician, so I will not actually be teaching children how to function in the digital world, or even using it with children for that matter. There are some issues that I think are very important if I were going to teach it.
1. Safety....teaching the children how to be safe in the digital world. As a mother, and past teacher, this would be the very first thing I would address.
2. Teaching children 'how to learn' what they need/want to learn. There is a saying about teaching a hungry man to fish, rather than giving him food, or something like that, and that's what I envision for children. Giving them the tools to seek and search for themselves.
3. I would give them lots of choices.....children will respond much better when allowed choice, and the rest of course, is technology and we all know that children LOVE technology. Things are moving so fast, technologically speaking, that there will be new things to learn absolutely every day.
I really liked the I-Safe Fact Sheet, if a school adopted something similar, I believe all students would end up full fledged digital citizens.......
Jill, your three points are excellent. We plan to focus on digital citizenship during September. In addition, I think we need to include parents in our digital citizenship and online safety piece.
ReplyDeleteWay to go on completing your 11 Tools! I am here to help you, so please ask. Looking forward to "Learning on the Wild Side" with you in 2010-2011!