2.2 Blog post-Digital footprint & digital citizenship
Reflecting on my venture obtaining my masters degree here at southern New Hampshire University I see my digital footprint growing rapidly. While on-line, I can now take courses and receive credit. Through the medium of the informational superhighway, there is time to capitalize on collaboration, communication and reflection through “midnight chats, email messaging and digital video”(Boone, 2001). All of these hone my professional leadership skills. Utilizing hardware such as my iPhone, iPad, laptop and many more digital tools allow the process of networking to get easier. For example, networking through Blogger utilizing my iPhone anywhere, anytime. Also relying on web 2.0 tools to make life easer. Such as using Freedly cloud to organize my peer’s Blogs all in one location and accessing post by simply clicking on peers name. Please feel free to click on URL to build your own Freedly cloud Feedly Cloud is Now Available .... Although the 21st. century Web is very helpful for learning it is not completely safe and appropriate.
Boundless amounts of information can be accessed and downloaded with a few strokes of the keys. Little by little books, magazines, and newspapers are becoming obsolete as the Internet replaces them. The school community must model and demonstrate digital citizenship. Skills to judge appropriateness on the web are added to life skills for students in the twenty-first century (Roempler, 2001). The informational superhighway brings a plethora of information; however, not all that should be viewed or explored by minors. The Information Age has brought libraries new wealth, some of which includes smut. Therefore, laws such as the Children’s Internet Protection Act of 2000-CIPA are enacted.
Not only does the technology need filtering on what comes in, but also more thought before jumping on the bandwagon of a new trend. Technology integrators must promote and learn to balance the excitement of technology with thinking. Technology integrators, parents and educational leaders must lead by example and encourage well built policies to ensure that the technology being used is “safe, legal, and ethical”.
Reference:
Roempler, K. (2001) “Literate—and Safe—on the World Wide Web”: July 2001: ENC Focus 8(3): 6- 8.www.enc.org.
Boone, S. (2001).“The Communication Revolution.” ENC Focus :2-3 www.enc.org/focus/horizons.
Jason you are so right. While taking classes at SNHU I have found that I have learned much easier ways to implement technology in a more productive way and ways that make it easier for me to utilize tools more often and more convenient. AND yes it is important for TIs, parents and school officials to make sure that technology exists for students to use but also maintain awareness of as you said the "smut" that is out there. It is a shame that people work so hard to try and ruin everything but if we are careful and thoroughly "test drive" our tools we can provide a better digital environment for our students.
It's funny that you mention this course. I have gotten so used to taking classes online that it's the norm and I forgot that only a few years ago, this did not exist. I agree with you that it does take a school wide effort to promote digital cititzenship. Also, thank you for the Feedly Cloud information, very valuable!
Jason you are so right. While taking classes at SNHU I have found that I have learned much easier ways to implement technology in a more productive way and ways that make it easier for me to utilize tools more often and more convenient. AND yes it is important for TIs, parents and school officials to make sure that technology exists for students to use but also maintain awareness of as you said the "smut" that is out there. It is a shame that people work so hard to try and ruin everything but if we are careful and thoroughly "test drive" our tools we can provide a better digital environment for our students.
ReplyDeleteIt's funny that you mention this course. I have gotten so used to taking classes online that it's the norm and I forgot that only a few years ago, this did not exist. I agree with you that it does take a school wide effort to promote digital cititzenship. Also, thank you for the Feedly Cloud information, very valuable!
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