DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP

Principle #4: Effective online teachers teach and model ethical online interaction, while helping students develop digital literacy that will poise them for success.

The digital citizenship course taught me that instructors need to actively model safe and professional use of digital tools and resources. They also must help students to develop their digital footprint. In this digital era, learning is not tied to a textbook – to become digitally literate, students need to engage in the web. Students have to have a digital presence that promotes their individual abilities and strengths.

Reflections

Where I was.

I was unaware of the ethical concerns in the digital environment. I did not know fully, how key concepts surrounding digital presence, and digital ethics might impact my teaching practices.

Where I am.

I have learned how digital citizenship and digital presence interacts with students of generation Z and my online teaching practices,strategies for developing and modeling professional digital presence, and strategies for supporting student digital presence through participatory learning. I am cultivating digital citizenship in my courses as follows:

Modeling safe professional digital presence
Helping students to develop their digital footprint
Teaching students digital information literacy
Teaching digital ethics

Where I'm headed.

I have explored Online Educational Resources (OER) and planning to adopt it for my courses.

Coming from research background, I strongly feel that we need more research study to evaluate the effect of using OER resources on students success rates and drop rates.

Please see below some examples.

Examples

Nondisposable_assgn.docx

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Non-Disposable Assignment

In my macro class, we learn about the recession in the U.S. and use economic theory to analyze it. I have created a non-disposable assignment on this. You can find it to the left.I developed this assignment to promote learner-driven education and challenge students to develop communication and collaborative skills.

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Digital Information Literacy Assignment

I teach economics. Digital information literacy is very relevant to my discipline.

To teach my students on digital information literacy I have created a project. Please check out to the left for this assignment.

Netiquette (Conduct Online)

To ensure each member of our course feels included and welcomed, all of us will abide by a few key rules of etiquette. First and foremost, we will treat each other with dignity and respect, while acknowledging that each of us is unique and has different views and opinions about topics. Diversity strengthens our learning community. To ensure everyone feels comfortable engaging in our discussions, please consider this guidance:

· Written communications can be easily misinterpreted so this added care is especially important.

· Each time you make a post or reply in a discussion, read it twice before you submit it to ensure the words you have chosen are considerate but also convey your message.

· If you feel a member of our community has violated our etiquette, please contact me directly. I will tend to your concern in a confidential matter.

Online Etiquette/ Netiquette

To teach my students Online Etiquette/ Netiquette, I have added information about online conduct to my syllabus. I am thankful to Michelle Pacansky-Brock for helping me with the Netiquette.

Please feel free to contact me at fahmida.fakhruddin@evc.edu if you have any questions.

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