Standards 4.2 Safe, Healthy, Legal & Ethical Use
Candidates model and facilitate the safe, healthy, legal, and ethical uses of digital information and technologies.
Artifact:
My School Blog:
One Minute Technology Tip - Episode 1
Parent Seminar on Digital Citizenship
One Minute Technology Tip - Episode 3
How to Be a Good Digital Citizen When School Starts
How to Recognize, Prevent & Stop Cyberbullying
One Minute Technology Tip - Episode 1
Parent Seminar on Digital Citizenship
One Minute Technology Tip - Episode 3
How to Be a Good Digital Citizen When School Starts
How to Recognize, Prevent & Stop Cyberbullying
Reflection:
I chose my school blog as the artifact to show mastery of standard 4.2. I believe that teaching safe, healthy, legal, and ethical uses of digital information and technologies is one of the most important standards of my graduate school career. Helping parents and students to understand the importance of Internet safety, good digital citizenship and cyberbullying has been the highlight of my career.
This artifact shows mastery of standard 4.2, by modeling and facilitating the safe, healthy, legal, and ethical uses of digital information and technologies in many ways. On my school blog, I have communicated in different ways the importance of many topics on digital citizenship. For instance, every year I hold a parent forum on many topics such as:
This artifact has impacted my school in many ways. When I first started my good digital citizenship initiative we had several students that were involved in dangerous incidents involving technology. By having the parent forums, involving students in the video blogs and providing school-wide information on different topics students and parents were more informed about how to act online, how to stay safe and what to do if they felt violated. Since the initiative started, which included the blog and forums, we have not had a single incident with at student that has been a violation of good digital citizenship and the school’s acceptable use policy.
At the beginning of my reflection I talked about how this standard was the most important part of my graduate school career. I believe that it’s also been the most important part as an instructional technologist as well. To me, teaching students and teachers to use the technology is the easy part and the difficult part is expressing the importance of using it correctly, having good ethics and abiding by the laws. It’s important for anyone in a technology leadership role to continue to research and speak out to parents, teachers, and students about the importance of these topics to keep everyone safely connected in our digital world.
This artifact shows mastery of standard 4.2, by modeling and facilitating the safe, healthy, legal, and ethical uses of digital information and technologies in many ways. On my school blog, I have communicated in different ways the importance of many topics on digital citizenship. For instance, every year I hold a parent forum on many topics such as:
- Setting online limits
- Internet safety
- Parent familiarizing themselves with technology
- Social networking
- Digital footprints
- App and mobile computing safety
- Sexting
- Cyberbullying
This artifact has impacted my school in many ways. When I first started my good digital citizenship initiative we had several students that were involved in dangerous incidents involving technology. By having the parent forums, involving students in the video blogs and providing school-wide information on different topics students and parents were more informed about how to act online, how to stay safe and what to do if they felt violated. Since the initiative started, which included the blog and forums, we have not had a single incident with at student that has been a violation of good digital citizenship and the school’s acceptable use policy.
At the beginning of my reflection I talked about how this standard was the most important part of my graduate school career. I believe that it’s also been the most important part as an instructional technologist as well. To me, teaching students and teachers to use the technology is the easy part and the difficult part is expressing the importance of using it correctly, having good ethics and abiding by the laws. It’s important for anyone in a technology leadership role to continue to research and speak out to parents, teachers, and students about the importance of these topics to keep everyone safely connected in our digital world.