You're almost done with Tech Nerd Camp 2.0! We hope you've found some great Web 2.0 tools to use in your classroom. Before you do though, make sure you consider the implications of using these powerful tools.
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Digital Citizenship
This is one example of how things online can change. Google used to have a digital citizenship online course that you could take and the week 9 activity was going to be going through that course. Google changed the structure of their courses to make them more interwoven so now there isn't a section that specifically deals with all of the aspects of digital citizenship. Instead we looked through the Google trainings and found the two that contained the most aspects of digital citizenship which are Unit 9: Teach Students Online Skills and Unit 13: Promote Digital Citizenship and Positive Online Behavior. These two units are part of the course that you would complete if you wanted to become a Google Certified Educator Level 1. Once you are finished with these two units, you are going to read the scenarios below and look through the Mounds View resources. The reflection for this week is more extensive so make sure you take the time to think about and write a reflection for each of the bullet points in the reflection.
Scenario 1
Miss Starbuck decided to have her reading students use Blogger to create blog posts. The students were really excited about the idea. Many started to log in from home to create posts and comment on each other's work, but their posts quickly got out of hand. One student figured out how to post photos and included dangerous details like names and locations. Other students posted mean comments about classmates. An angry parent complained to the principal, who was unaware that Miss Starbuck was using Blogger in the first place.
Scenario 2
Mr. Kirk is excited to use Google Apps for Education with his third grade students. He jumps in with both feet and his classes are off and running. Because he started so quickly, he never thought about putting policies and procedures in place. After a few weeks, students are spending more time off task than on. They are creating and sharing Docs as a way to bully each other, adding inappropriate comments in Google Classroom, and deleting or changing other students' work. Mr. Kirk doesn't know what to do, so he suspends all technology use in his class, abandoning it completely and any of its benefits.
Scenario 3
Mr. McFly has decided to get with the twenty-first century and have his economics students create videos for their final project. He has each student create a YouTube channel to post their projects, without notifying his principal or his students' parents. He also didn't teach students how to change privacy settings, so kids start getting inappropriate comments from unknown users.
Scenario 4
Mrs. Janeway decided to have her middle school students create digital projects then use Snagit to create video presentations of their projects. Mrs. Janeway discovered in the computer lab while her eighth grade students were creating their accounts that Snagit required parental permission for students under 13. This didn't pose a problem for her eighth graders, but Mrs. Janeway panicked because the following period she planned to do the same activity with her sixth graders.
Mounds View Resources
Mounds View Public Schools Student Acceptable Use Policy
Evaluation Tool for High Quality Instruction: Before you decide to use an app in class, you need to make sure that resource is appropriate for the age of your students and that you have attained the required permissions from parents and your principal. This tool will guide you through that process.
Chromebook Classroom Procedures
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Chromebook Classroom Procedures
Miss Starbuck decided to have her reading students use Blogger to create blog posts. The students were really excited about the idea. Many started to log in from home to create posts and comment on each other's work, but their posts quickly got out of hand. One student figured out how to post photos and included dangerous details like names and locations. Other students posted mean comments about classmates. An angry parent complained to the principal, who was unaware that Miss Starbuck was using Blogger in the first place.
Scenario 2
Mr. Kirk is excited to use Google Apps for Education with his third grade students. He jumps in with both feet and his classes are off and running. Because he started so quickly, he never thought about putting policies and procedures in place. After a few weeks, students are spending more time off task than on. They are creating and sharing Docs as a way to bully each other, adding inappropriate comments in Google Classroom, and deleting or changing other students' work. Mr. Kirk doesn't know what to do, so he suspends all technology use in his class, abandoning it completely and any of its benefits.
Scenario 3
Mr. McFly has decided to get with the twenty-first century and have his economics students create videos for their final project. He has each student create a YouTube channel to post their projects, without notifying his principal or his students' parents. He also didn't teach students how to change privacy settings, so kids start getting inappropriate comments from unknown users.
Scenario 4
Mrs. Janeway decided to have her middle school students create digital projects then use Snagit to create video presentations of their projects. Mrs. Janeway discovered in the computer lab while her eighth grade students were creating their accounts that Snagit required parental permission for students under 13. This didn't pose a problem for her eighth graders, but Mrs. Janeway panicked because the following period she planned to do the same activity with her sixth graders.
Mounds View Resources
Mounds View Public Schools Student Acceptable Use Policy
Evaluation Tool for High Quality Instruction: Before you decide to use an app in class, you need to make sure that resource is appropriate for the age of your students and that you have attained the required permissions from parents and your principal. This tool will guide you through that process.
Chromebook Classroom Procedures
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To Complete Activity 9:
- Work through Google's Digital Citizenship Training.
- Read the scenarios posted above.
- Look at each of the Mounds View Resources.
- Write a reflection on your blog commenting on the following prompts:
- Discuss the possible ethical issues involved in two of the scenarios.
- Determine if the safety or well-being of anyone is in jeopardy.
- What advice, strategy, or policy would you recommend to individuals or schools based on this scenario?
- Share any real-life incidents or personal connections related to the scenario.
- How can the Mounds View Resources help to implement high quality instructional practices with with technology?
- What is 1 procedure that you can implement in your class and what is one that you would like to implement in your whole PLC or whole building?
- Comment on 3 other nerds' posts.
1.Ethically, teachers are responsible for the safety of all their students at all time. Technology can become a problem with that. I am going through a personal experience similar to Ms. Starbuck's class with my niece and it kills me every day. Children can be horribly mean and do not understand the impact of their unspoken, but printed, words. Mr. McFly's idea of utube is awesome in theory. Kids love to perform for their classmates. However monitoring can be problematic. Teachers need strict rules for the classroom when using technology.
ReplyDelete*When using technology, safety must come first. It is my duty to ensure all my students well-being to do that, rules must be clearly in place. I think a contract between home and school is an essential part of ensuring the safety of kids.
Kids are generally kind, with the exception of few. a personal connection for me is a bit raw to talk about. But know I have been there and am still dealing with it. Social medial can ruin kids childhood and affect their lives forever.
Technology today is crucial. Moundsview is a district which shows their kids how important it can be and supports the teachers to provide quality instruction.
I plane to create and share multilevel lessons to share with my PLC.