Digital Citizen Advocate

Implementation: Twitter is easy to use for all educators across the world. I made an account through the Twitter website and shared it with my classmates. I followed back them and shared it with my staff as a resource for them to check out. I searched for products that I found helpful and followed their accounts. Now in my timeline I will look at every couple of days to see what great resource I can use and share.

Impact: Twitter has helped me learn and share with my educational community and use social network for educational purpose. This follows ISTE 7c. in showing how a resource that has many negative assumptions about it. This is used to promote idea 7a. of the ISTE standards in inspiring educators and students to use technology for civic engagement. By sharing information to teach people how to use educational tool. Educators are better suited for the 21st century classroom.

ISTE Standards:

7b. Partner with educators, leaders, students and families to foster a culture of respectful online interactions and a healthy balance in their use of technology.

7c. Support educators and students to critically examine the sources of online media and identify underlying assumptions.

Artifact Description: Artifact 2, Flipgrid and Teacher-Student Interaction is a video I made to help explain to another teacher what are helpful ideas to use Flipgrid for. Flipgrid is a tool made by Microsoft for schools and business to share ideas through videos. In my research I have come across different articles that cite the importance and use of asynchronistic learning. Flipgrid let's a teacher pose a question or a topic and let's students respond in video. You can add documents, stickers, and write on it to highlight your point. This artifact aligns with ISTE Standards 7b., partner with educators, leaders, students and families to foster a culture of respectful online interactions and a healthy balance in their use of technology and 7c., support educators and students to critically examine the sources of online media and identify underlying assumptions. Using Flipgrid teaches students how to use healthy online interactions and shows that students should be able to express themselves.

Implementation: I made an online professional development for teachers to interact with on Flipgrid. I also worked with teachers one-on-one to show them how to use Flipgrid and how it works. I went over different Ideas that might work for them in their classroom. I have partnered with Jillian Turnbull at my school to work together and share our experiences using Flipgrid with our students, as outlined in ISTE standard 7b., and 7c.

Impact: Teachers at my school have found the tool interesting and want to know how to incorporate it into their weekly interactions with students and families. Working with Jillian has helped us understand some of the problems when only working with technologies that use the written word like emails and text. It also models how to communicate to online for students in a responsible and respectful way. Also, parents are seeing them understanding that technologies like social networks can be a used to educate in a new way that were previously thought. Highlighting the ideas of ISTE standards 7b. and 7c.

Reflection

For the ISTE standard 7 is about becoming an digital citizen advocate for educator and students. This means that you model and showcase how to act as a responsible and civilized way through interactions using technology. The two main forms that this comes in through social media and sharing applications. Artifact 1, Twitter and Professional Developments through Sharing shows how I am using ISTE standards 7a., inspire and encourage educators and students to use technology for civic engagement and to address challenges to improve their communities and 7c., Support educators and students to critically examine the sources of online media and identify underlying assumptions, to be a digital role model for educators and students. Artifact 2, Flipgrid and Teacher-Student Interaction shows how I am using ISTE standards 7b., partner with educators, leaders, students and families to foster a culture of respectful online interactions and a healthy balance in their use of technology and 7c., support educators and students to critically examine the sources of online media and identify underlying assumptions to build relationships with educators to be role models for their students too.