Capstone 2024 Portfolio-Rachelle Dené Poth

Citizen

ISTE Standard 3

8. Implement learning experiences for students to be empathetic and socially responsible.

9. Promote student behaviors that encourage curiosity as they critically identify/examine online resources.

10. Mentor students in safe, ethical, and legal use, including intellectual property.

11. Model responsible use, including protection of digital identity and personal data.

I wrote an article about Digital Citizenship Skills for Edutopia and shared some resources and best practices for helping students understand their rights and responsibilities. The article was published in November 2023. In my STEAM course, we used these resources, and I also spoke of these resources to align with criteria 9, 10, and 11. My experience was first in learning about the elements and exploring ways to teach students and also learn with them.

Global Collaboration

Using Edmodo, I connected my students with students in Spain and Argentina. Students learned to interact in the online space, developed empathy and global awareness, and engaged responsibly online.

Reflecting on the powerful learning that happened made me realize that I should have leveraged the technology years ago, however, I am thankful that we dove in together.

Digital Citizenship PSAs

Students learned about the 9 elements of digital citizenship. I taught them how to sketchnote and use it for learning and also decided to have students create one based on what they learned. Each student selected one of the elements and then designed PSAs to display in our hallways.

This activity taught me to take more risks in learning with students and also the importance of sharing their work publicly.

Protecting Identity and Property

Students learned the importance of safeguarding personal information and the ethical and responsible use of intellectual property.

The activity we did not only helped us to learn about digital citizenship and protecting our information online, but it gave us all a chance to share that knowledge with others.

Students had to think through the elements and create a representation that helped them and other students to understand how to be responsible online and in person.

Criteria 9: Promote student behaviors that encourage curiosity as they critically identify/examine online resources.

Video overview of resources used each year

This is a video that I made to use as an overview of some of the resources we would use in my STEAM and Spanish classes. These sites and tools help to promote curiosity and engage students in learning, create opportunities for them to identify and examine online resources, and check the validity of resources.

We have used Newsela and more recently, ChatGPT and other Generative AI to check the accuracy of the information and learn to critically evaluate and process what they are receiving.

Cybersecurity and Digital Citizenship Resources for Teachers, Students and Families

I created materials for my students and for other schools to use for teaching their school community and students and responsibilities online and how to stay safe.

These resources were shared digitally and were also available in print to display in classrooms.

The learning was more meaningful through discussions held in class about the elements and the importance of cyber safety.

Digcit posts Poth 2023.pptx

A PowerPoint with sample social media posts created to show how to post online, proper use of hashtags and how to best inform.

I created this as a way to inform students and also to share with other educators.

10. Mentor students in safe, ethical, and legal use, including intellectual property.

In my STEAM course and also Spanish classes, we review the Technology Agreement for students and discuss how it applies to our class.

Students work through Nearpod lessons, we discuss, and then they apply by completing matching activities or collaborate boards or quizzes to demonstrate their knowledge.

I share my lessons and how I use ready-made lessons or create my own, as well as the differences between using resources from within Nearpod or looking on the Internet.

Students are also shown how to properly cite information obtained from a variety of media and also when taking information from ChatGPT for their work.

In my classroom, I have examples of artwork created by designers for my book and show students how to cite the creator both in the art and in the publication, and we discuss the importance.

11: Model responsible use, including protection of digital identity and personal data.

Cybersecurity and identity protection

For this criteria, I reviewed common tools being used by teachers and created a document with relevant information about protecting data and how companies are protecting our data. I shared this document with other teachers, my students, and my PLN.

Using this information, I could better choose tools and share this information with teachers and students.

Presentation created for students and parents, with script included.

During PD sessions, I have shared privacy settings with teachers. When my students create accounts, I work with them to help create strong passwords and come up with different strategies to devise unique passwords.

The presentation that I created explores and explains the importance of protecting our digital identities and the best practices for doing so.

One example slide that is shared with students in my class and that also shows the accompanying speaker notes is about password protection. I explain how I used what I learned in my Computational Thinking courses to develop my own password-creation practice.

These creations enabled me to think about how technology use and the ways we interact have changed and also led me to reflect on my personal practices for engaging in online communities.

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