I must have not published this post when I thought I did... hopefully next week I will complete this part correctly!
My GAME plan is to promote and model digital citizenship and responsibility; and to engage in professional growth and leadership. As I thought of these goals more intently, I realize what exactly I need to do.
To make sure my students promote and model digital citizenship and responsibility, I spoke with them this week about blogging etiquette. I explained to them, while we are blogging, I expect the same language they are permitted to use in school to be used while blogging; and any language not permitted in school is not permitted on their blog.
Previous to this week, my students were not excited at all about the blog (well, maybe a couple students were excited), but now almost all are excited! I scheduled time in the computer lab for my students to get their blog set up and to begin research on submersibles. The comments last week were, 'This is going to be stupid', and the comments this week after exposure to blogging were, 'This is like a really cool facebook!' I was very excited!
Some of my students completed their research post and even added pictures! If you want to check out our blog you can go to MarineBiologyPeriod1.blogspot.com... they each posted to their own blog.
To teach responsibility, eventually my students will have to respond to my blog by Wednesday and other classmates by Sunday... but we did not get their yet!
Finally, to teach my students about professional growth and leadership, I am having my students complete this blog (discussed above). Students are going to be building their own submersible, but before they can build, they needed to complete research about how real submersibles worked in the past and how they work now.
Towards the end of the year, I also have a research project where students need to research their favorite marine animal! They seem to like that one best!
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I think that teaching students about digital citizenship and responsibility is very important, especially since we are immersed in the digital world both at home and in school. Students need to be taught the skills to be responsible citizens in that world. Have you given your students a survey to gauge their current opinions on the ethics of technology? I have done this with my computer science students and it is very interesting to see where their opinions are before we start discussing some of these issues.
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ReplyDeleteI also agree that teaching students about digital citizenship is very important especially in the upper grades when they are exposed to a lot more in the outside world. Technology has somewhat taken away the socialization between people, so I think that you having a discussion on etiquette and explaining what can be put on the blog is very important. Do you ever get students that complain about what they can and cannot put on it?