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 🎶
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The Role of the School/Teacher in DigCit
As the world relies increasingly on digital technologies, our students need guidance on how to be safe, savvy, and social while using it. Schools can play an integral part in teaching and learning to support students’ media literacy to be critical of what they access online. The use of technology can be both advantageous and […]
Continue readingThe Good, The Bad, The Old Me
My Media Journey The greatest reminder of my uncensored teenage digital identity is the dreaded Facebook Memories. I almost always see the “on this day” memories and immediately delete them or change the privacy settings. I don’t think that 13 year old me was considering my future at all, never mind a future as an … Continue reading The Good, The Bad, The Old Me
Continue readingDigital Identity Considerations
As I consider my digital identity, I reflect on how much I did NOT know about digital identity or haven’t thought much about. As a teacher and a mother, I try to consider what I put on social media. I only started adding my personally created identity in the early 2000’s when I was in […]
Continue readingTime for TikTok – Update (Part 2)
In this post I am applying Dr. Mike Ribble’s 9 Elements of Digital Citizenship to my personal application of TikTok and Flipgrid in the classroom. To keep things organized for my final project I’m going to investigate the themes I feel most relatable to each platform separately. Even though they are both video based platforms, … Continue reading Time for TikTok – Update (Part 2)
Continue readingMajor Project Inspired by Dr. Mike Ribble
There is a responsibility of educators and parents to educate our students/children with the use of technology. After listening to Dr. Mike Ribble, I was prompted to get my hands on his latest book “The Digital Citizenship Handbook for School Leaders” co-authored with Marty Park. I request to borrow the book from the STF library […]
Continue readingCellphones: to ban or not to ban, that is the question!
Do schools need to change? Rural vs urban, public vs private, elementary vs high school – one thing all of these schools have in common is the struggle with student cell phone use! Restricting cell phone use in schools is like using a band aid to fix a water leak – it just doesn’t work! … Continue reading Cellphones: to ban or not to ban, that is the question!
Continue readingTeaching to the Tech
Often I’ve heard that teachers will “teach to the test”. In a time where tests are being assessed for their validity and authenticity of student learning, I sometimes see technology being substituted as an “end point”. We teach technology because we feel like students “need” to know it. However, I feel that technology can be … Continue reading Teaching to the Tech
Continue readingTime for TikTok
I’m 29 years old, and I’ve made a point of not downloading TikTok. I already struggle with “multi-tasking” by working, listening to a podcast, and scrolling my phone. My shortening attention span always requires more stimulation to stay focused. TikTok seems like an endless trap. When on Twitter for EC&I 832 I saw Holly Alexander … Continue reading Time for TikTok
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