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Throughout this course, I will be working on ways to ingrate technology throughout my content area. The International Society for Technology in Education has set several performance indicators for teachers. I have two goals that I would like to work on in regards to these indicators: (1) Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility and (2) Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership.
Because I teach middle school, it is so vital that students are shown how to be responsible by citing their information they research on the Internet. For this reason, I chose Promoting and Modeling Digital Citizenship as my first goal. At the middle school level, many projects are assigned where students are required to gather Internet-based research. As a teacher, I want to take action to model good ethical use of technology. I will monitor this goal by making it a priority to address this issue with my class on a regular basis. I can focus on a different topic each month. It will not necessarily be a lesson just on responsible Internet use, but rather I will tie it in when appropriate by modeling proper citizenship. I can evaluate and extend my knowledge of this topic by keeping current on copyright laws and on the process of successfully citing sources.
My second goal pertains to Engaging in Professional Growth and Leadership. I want to take more leadership within my grade level to create lessons where technology is successfully integrated into the content area so that students can benefit from it. Students can benefit by experiencing varied instruction that can be done easily with technology. A way for me to monitor this goal is to meet with my team of teachers and share ideas pertaining to how we are integrating technology in our content area. We can bounce ideas off one another and share what worked in the classroom and what did not work. I can evaluate and extend my learning by integrating new forms of technology into my lessons instead of using the same types of technology.
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http://www.iste.org/standards/nets-for-teachers.aspx
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Kara,
ReplyDeleteTeaching 6th grade for 12 years I totally understand the importance of teaching ethics. Before our district got strict control over blocking and monitoring the internet activity of the students, I encountered many students searching inappropriate sites. Even with all of restrictions placed on them students still seem to find a way to misuse the internet. Your goal is a goal teachers should always be aware of. Ethical use involves many aspects, from safety to copy right and plagiarism.
Linda V
Kara,
ReplyDeleteI also chose modeling online citizenship as one of my goals. I'm appalled to the way in which students think everything on the Internet is free. I'm not sure why a lot of this is not being taught in the lower grade levels. Even if students are not using MLA style, they could at least cite where they took the picture from, the date it was retrieved, and so on. I have my kids just keep an Excel file that lists what they took, where they used it, etc.
I think one of the big problems is that we are kind of stuck in between generations. Many of the parents are not tech savvy, so they do not know how to teach proper online etiquette. In reality, many of the teachers in our schools are not tech savvy. I have a feeling that if we can reinforce the proper behavior, we will begin to see future generations using proper etiquette.
Brett
Kara -
ReplyDeleteLike you and Bret, I also chose modeling online citizenship for a goal. It is so important that kids realize that they can't just steal work from other people! I just recently had students make a website for a topic that they researched on their own. I'm sure you won't be surprised that they immediately went to Google images to find images to fill up backgrounds and space. Before we started, I really focused on the webliography for this project, breaking down that page into a place to cite information (which they often already understand) and a place for images. We had to have a specific lesson demonstrating why it was important to give people credit where it is due. A discussion was in order since most students thought it was okay to take images from Google because Google collects them for them.
The other issue was giving Google the credit. It became quite the fiasco for some students who had to go back and find different photos because they didn't cite the first photo. It was definitely a learning experience for all of them.
Bethanne
Kara,
ReplyDeleteI work in a school in which we are given two periods a week to meet and discuss student concerns, curriculum, and try and give each other ideas for our classes. There is nothing better than to share ideas with other professionals, sometimes you just have to be willing to hear that your idea isn't so great. I think my teaching team has saved me a couple times, but before I meet I always make a list of ideas not only to get their ideas, but also to see if something can be done across the curriculums. One year the science teacher and I worked on a Mount Vesuvius project together. She dealt with the science, I dealt with the history. It was really fun, but would have been tough to do without that time!
Linda, Brett, Bethaane, and Mike,
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for your comments. I agree, teaching internet responsibility is such an important task. Bethanne, I love that you took the time to walk through the process with your students. That is a great learning experience for them. I am convinced that it is important we take time to teach students these skills. Mike, it is awesome that you have time set aside to meet with your team members to discuss and plan lessons. I know I learn so much from our content meetings because it is great to share ideas and find out what is effective in the classroom.