THIS IS A LINK TO COMMON SENSE MEDIA:
Common Sense is dedicated to helping kids thrive in a world of media and technology. They empower parents, teachers, and policymakers by providing unbiased information, trusted advice, and innovative tools to help them harness the power of media and technology as a positive force in all kids’ lives.
They state that Media and technology are at the very center of all our lives -- especially children. Kids today spend over 50 hours of screen time every week. The media content they consume and create has a profound impact on their social, emotional, cognitive, and physical development. Learning how to use media and technology wisely is an essential skill for life and learning in the 21st century. However, parents, teachers, and policymakers struggle to keep up with the rapidly changing digital world in which our children live and learn. Now more than ever, kids need a trusted guide to help them navigate the world where change is the only constant.
Common sense media offers a portion of their site to certifying in Digital Citizenship for an educator, school and district. Digital Citizenship Certified Educators are dedicated to teaching digital citizenship to young people and engaging parents using Common Sense Education materials. The certificates are not test focused, but instead, ask a series of questions based on your experiences as an educator. It asks a few paragraph based questions such as: “What impact do you think teaching digital citizenship has had on your students? Their families? School culture?” This is a novel approach to these types of certifications, although I am not sure some certificate in this type of program is completely necessary. Certifications can be beneficial to the educator, but I would like to see more of the site emphasize, the sense of being a good digital citizen. A certificate is great, but the landscape is constantly changing to keep up.
THIS IS A LINK TO EXAMPLES OF ONLINE NETIQUETTE GUIDELINES:
Distance education can give a false sense of anonymity regarding the consequences of what we are doing. As a result, many people feel less inhibited in online situations than in their everyday lives. This heightened sense of inhibitions sometimes leads people to use less than their usual sense of personal respect for each other when communicating online. As a result, online communication guidelines have developed over the Past few years. This informal set of guidelines for online behavior called Netiquette. Three simple understandings can summarize netiquette: remember that there is a human being on the other end of your communication, treat that human being with respect, and do not transmit any message that you would not be willing to communicate face to face. Email is public domain and is not considered private information. The same goes for information shared in our classroom discussion and chats (Examples of Online Netiquette Guidelines, n.d.) .
References
Examples of Online Netiquette Guidelines. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://wnmu.edu/: http://wnmu.edu/old/facdev/files/SC_netiquette/NetiquetteGuidelines.pdf
David I agree that this Distance Education give you a false sense of anonymity. But, we know that time management is helps others to be successful with Distance Education. Though it is not a brick and mortar school that clearly give a sense of togetherness with your peers, I feel that I learn better taking courses online.
ReplyDeleteHi David, I just discovered Common Sense Media, and I am in awe of the vast resources available on digital citizenship, from videos to teaching strategies.
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing the information on Common Sense Media. I am quite impressed with the tools available to me there. I'll be taking this back to a course redesign team as we are altering a course that is traditionally face to face..now going hybrid. ~Bev
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