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.
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Navpreet Dhugga
10/20/2018 06:13:25 pm
To add to your blog, I think an important skill to teach students to ensure that they are good digital citizens is how to be critical. Today’s students are getting the majority of their information online. So today’s students need to learn how to criticize this information to ensure that the information is accurate before they use that information. For this reason I found the ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) framework makes the most sense because this framework teaches students to become community participators or knowledge creators, to expand their knowledge, and to evaluate information (ISTE, 2018). I wanted to get your perspective on how you think teachers should teach students on how to be critical of the information they see online?
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Allyson Duff
10/23/2018 07:52:38 am
I agree that critical thinking is crucial to student success, but I also believe that critical thinking is a very personal skill that teachers need to cultivate carefully as to not influence a student in one way or another but to encourage the student to draw their own conclusions. Much like in an English class where the teacher would ask what the blue sky could represent, no answer is wrong, as long as it is based in facts. Teachers must show students how to think critically, depending on the age group, and assuming the students are old enough to read more complex material say grade six, I would ask students to write a very short piece on where they found a fact, who wrote that site or book, and does this source seem good to use. This is a good way to introduce the critical thinking skill in relation to a source. For younger students asking them to think about why they think what they think is a good start, asking them to back up their statements or ideas with facts.
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Allyson DuffThird year education student at Lakehead University. Specializing in Sociology and Media Studies Archives
November 2018
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