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PRINCIPLE #4: Effective online teachers teach and model ethical online interaction, while helping students develop digital literacy that maximizes their opportunities for success.
PRINCIPLE #4: Effective online teachers teach and model ethical online interaction, while helping students develop digital literacy that maximizes their opportunities for success.
Caring and mindful online teachers:
provide a safe learning environment that enables and encourages students to open up their research beyond Canvas and Connect, the 2 I.T. environments used to teach Spanish.
model and promote the ethical use of Information Technology in class. "A large part in being a responsible digital citizen encompasses digital literacy, etiquette, online safety, and an acknowledgement of private versus public information." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_citizen)
promote critical examination/thinking while developing digital literacy amongst their students.
Reflections
Reflections
Where I was
Where I was
Since I started as a Spanish language teacher at Saddleback College in January 2019, and Spanish being my fifth language, I used to focus much of my time in reviewing the content before giving a class. I started co-teaching online in the summer of 2019 and had to learn to navigate Connect, the Spanish language learning environment used in my department as well as Canvas, the LMS used at Saddleback. Therefore, the assignments I gave were exclusively in these two environments. It is true that even if these are digital versions of classrooms, they are still secured spaces and not considered as public web spaces.
Where I am
Where I am
After taking the @One courses, I realize that my responsibility is to facilitate dialogues (and debates) amongst my students, to create a sense of community and a space of trust in which the students are willing to share their experiences but feel safe and respected no matter who they are, what they think, and where they need to respect their classmates. What is relevant is to provide a safe environment that invites critical thinking. As an online teacher, "digital citizenship" means creating an ethical and professional digital presence that promotes humane and safe, non judgmental, interactions in the online environment.
Today, I motivate students in the creation of non-disposable assignments such as videos where they relate directly to their life experiences, which is a strong motivational factor.
Where I'm headed
Where I'm headed
I hope to:
locate, evaluate, and adopt Open Educational Resources
develop my digital presence and incorporate more digital content within my course Canvas course shell. I could for example use a Twitter Hashtag for the use of the course, which means that I can communicate in an easy unsophisticated way with my students wherever I am, as long as I have my phone with me and they have their phone.
Having more participatory tools for my students. I intend to create a padlet wall for questions and answers or weekly opinions about the content of the course.
implement open pedagogy in my teaching (Digital Citizenship @One course)
Examples
Examples
Netiquette
Netiquette
I adapted my syllabus to include a longer paragraph on my Course Philosophy and the expected "Netiquette", online etiquette, to ensure a safe and supportive learning community, while simultaneously using a positive language. The model of this Course Philosophy was Michele Pacansky-Brock's "Course Philosophy & Ground Rules".
Online Verification Skills
Online Verification Skills
The Optional Extra Credit Assignment I created for my students this semester is a research/essay on a Latin American country, artist, author, or cinematography. I asked them a minimum of 3 different sources (2 being from 2020) and asked them to view the 4 videos called "Online Verification Skills" by Mike Caulfield and comment on them. My contribution is to guide them, or to give them tools to better evaluate the digital information.
Non-disposable Assignments
Non-disposable Assignments
Today, I favor the creation of non-disposable assignments such as videos, in which my students relate directly to their life experiences.
To the left, my students had an Individual Voice Activity about their favorite Holiday and once the video uploaded, they had to comment on the video of two other classmates.
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