These frameworks focused more on what the teacher has to teach the students to make sure that the student has a healthy online life. This healthy internet balance is becoming ever more critical due to the increased use of technology in the daily lives of students. As a future teacher, I would like to be able to teach my students how to have this healthy balance, and how to behave online properly. These frameworks only focus on what the student can do, while that isn’t perfect with something as open as the internet it’s the only way to make sure students are aware that they are the only ones that can protect themselves. These two frameworks are all about self-awareness and self-regulation, as a teacher I would have to make sure that the students have the right knowledge to keep themselves safe, but to also be kind on the internet. They will have to have a good understanding of the technology they choose to use.
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The fourth and fifth frameworks were the two that most stood out to me for their unique uses in understanding digital literacy. To be an active digital participant you must learn how to define what you are trying to accomplish. The 21st-century educators say that you as a teacher will fit into almost all the six categories teach, technologist, curator, collaborator, experimenter, and scholar. To me, this framework highlights the importance of understanding your strengths as a teacher in relation to learning technologies and learning where you can improve. For instance, the teacher category means that the individual knows how students learn and can design learning activities to fit that style (which will change for year to year), or the experimenter is open to try new learning tools and reflects on what that tool can offer afterwards. Both of which are vital to a productive learning environment. The fifth framework focuses more on what students need to learn to be better digital citizens. The framework highlights seven essential ideas for this: ethics and empathy, privacy and security, community and engagement, digital health, consumer awareness, finding and verifying, and finally making and remixing. These seven aspects of being a digital citizen are critical for students to understand and portray online. Ethics and empathy, for example, are about strengthening socio-emotional skills, the student's ability to make ethical decisions online and to deal with problems like cyber-bullying. Whereas, the digital health example is about: balancing the student’s online life with their real life and to manage their online identity issues like body image. These frameworks help showcase the central ideas teachers must convey to students to make them a healthy and happy online citizen.
Critical digital literacy to me is the ability to look critically at an online work, to not only understand what the content means but what the author or publisher wants you to believe. This definition has allowed me to find biases in published works and to acknowledge those biases. This course is about learning how to teach digital literacy to students and to keep future teachers informed of the latest tools and approaches to achieve this. Being able to think critically is a vital component to being an excellent lifelong learner, it will push you to look for a deeper meaning in the works. If a teacher were to accept all that they are told without trying to learn more about it, they wouldn’t be an outstanding teacher in my mind; a teacher should want to learn as much as they can on what interests their students. For this knowledge will help the teacher engage their students in lessons and activities during class hours.
This is a creative story written from the perspective of my shoes about me.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1AOG4W9u8Xi2qFtEtDw8ZPrFqkr-pqfmuVNd9ATebdY8/edit?usp=sharing |
Allyson DuffThird year education student at Lakehead University. Specializing in Sociology and Media Studies Archives
November 2018
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