Digital Literacy & Citizenship

Portfolio Assignment from Digital Literacy & Citizenship Module

Open Education Resources and Copyright Law Infographic

Direct link to Open Education Resources and Copyright Law Infographic: https://goo.gl/xtJrLc

I chose to publish my Open Educational Resources (OER) and Copyright Law infographic under as a Creative Commons - Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike license for several reasons. I do not believe that someone should be able to take something another created and profit from it. If you would like to profit from the work that you do, then you should create all original content and not share, but not use the works of others for profit. I would like others to follow the same licensing as well, however, they are able to remix and edit my infographic to meet their needs.

Direct link to Open Education Resources and Copyright sharing explanation: https://goo.gl/iyMV6h

Reflection:

You have explored and learned about digital citizenship, and reflected on how to set an example and be a learning leader.

• To summarize your learning in this module

• Reflect on the Digital Citizenship standards of the ISTE-C (standard 5a-c)

For each standard (5a-c), explain one concrete way you plan on promoting and modeling digital citizenship and responsibility (for a total of 3 concrete strategies).

Digital Citizenship is a focus area in our district as we have recently expanded the access to technology through Chromebook carts at our school sites. In the past, digital citizenship has not been taught explicitly to students because most, not all, teachers are not familiar with what it includes and many see it as another thing to teach. The computer labs have been primarily used for drill and kill websites and research with little or no collaboration or communication for students. With greater access to technology, this creates an area of professional development for our teachers and students.

We will be teaching a module on “Fostering Digital Literacies through Digital Citizenship” which examines the key elements around digital literacy within the 21st Century Framework and how to teach those through the Common Core standards. Digital literacy should not be taught as a stand alone topic, but incorporated into the content, just as we expect our teachers to do. In order to do this, though, they need to have an understanding of what digital literacy and digital citizenship are and how best to incorporate it into their content areas. Using explicit modeling in our own instruction to teachers will give teachers ideas on how to incorporate best practices for digital citizenship within the context of their classroom. Resources to support their own development will be shared and all content will be cited and referenced appropriately in training materials, which will be shared online and publicly.

Our district has become a Google Apps for Education district and will be rolling out GAFE district-wide this school year. This provides equitable access to digital tools and resources for our students across the district with the only obstacle being teacher preparedness to use these resources in the classroom, making professional development even more critical. All educational technology professional development in the district will touch upon different features of the GAFE environment so that work in GAFE is seamless and becomes part of how we collaborate and communicate, for both students and teachers.

All educational technology professional development will include follow up pathways through a Google+ community and Twitter chats. This will model for teachers how to communicate and collaborate appropriately by actually participating in this ongoing support.

Through providing access to technology for students and training for teachers, explicitly modeling how digital citizenship should look in each and every classroom, providing relevant resources that are appropriately cited and referenced, and continuing the conversation through a supportive Google+ and Twitter community, we hope to achieve ISTE-C Standard 5 in our district.

Direct link to Module 5 Reflection document: https://goo.gl/eA3orK