I would like to start by giving credit to Dr. Paul Clarke for the title. Not that EDL 819 hasn’t stuck with me, but te phrase that he used has been applicable so many times since hearing it. What comes to mind when you think of ethics? For me, the first choice is the culminating event of Billy Madison’s academic decathlon where he must outperform is nemesis Eric for control of Madison Hotels. Obviously, and not just in part to…
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How do you know so much? Easy. I’m a teacher and a dad.
Thinking back ten years, I had taken the torch of my father and his father. I was a proud third-generation watcher of the news at supper! I would scan the newspapers while waiting in line at the grocery store. News talk radio was thumping in my car, no matter how far away my destination was. That was then, this is now. The early morning news is the last chance that I will have over the next fifteen hours to where…
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I discuss my view of literacy as existing within a holistic learning model in this week’s blog post. What are your views of literacy and being fully literate?
Continue readingEmotional Damage 🎶
In Digital Citizenship We can warn people about being socially appropriate for our audience when posting, but it doesn’t always seem to make sense until you’ve made your own media “mistake”. Teaching students about netiquette and visibility settings is a great place to start. But it isn’t enough to protect students from all possible situations … Continue reading Emotional Damage 🎶
Continue readingDigital Identity & Digital Citizenship
It is crazy to think about how these concepts of digital identity and digital citizenship have emerged and evolved over the span of my lifetime I remember first venturing online as a young teenager, using AltaVista to explore this new digital world. Those grinding, ringing sounds of the dial up connecting, the slow loading pages, getting interrupted when someone needed to make a phone call from the land line. How dare my search for sports statistics and images be inconvenienced!…
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Digital identity theft can be referred to stealing of personal information and using it in an unethical way. According to the blog “The digital Identity: What it is + Why it’s valuable”, there are many categories of digital identity such as nationality, date of birth, place of residence, social media and so on. One can […]
Continue readingRibble’s Nine Elements and Its Connection with my Major Project
With the growth and advancement in technology, education has also stepped into digital world. Now along with digitalization, some responsibilities also come on the users and this responsible use of technology is referred as Digital Citizenship. This term is not that popular and we often talk about educational environment in digital world. Both teachers and […]
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