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In the connected era, students will be most successful after college if they have a digital presence that promotes their unique abilities and strengths. Online instructors are poised to play a powerful role in the development of our students’ digital footprint. Students aspire to be like their instructors who actively model safe and professional use of digital tools and resources. Effective online teachers understand that engaging students in the web is an important part of becoming digitally literate and, as such, learning is not tied to a textbook.
This principle emphasizes:
- Developing one’s own professional digital presence
- Using and remixing digital Open Educational Resources (OER) to facilitate active learning;
- Establishing a learning culture that promotes curiosity and critical examination of online resources while fostering digital literacy and media fluency
- Providing opportunities for students to create content that can be shared outside of a learning management system;
- Fostering a learning environment that encourages students to connect with and learn from a global audience.
Reflections
Reflections
Where I was.
Where I was.
Although my class is taught entirely online, I never really considered how to integrate the concept of digital citizenship into the course content. After taking the Digital Citizenship class, I realized that it is very important to demonstrate the need for not only learning the digital tools available to them, but also the need to examine their own digital presence and developing a sense of decorum in their own virtual presence to avoid any possible pitfalls down the road.
Where I am.
Where I am.
Out of all of the classes that I have taken in the series, this is the one area that I feel that I need to make the greatest improvement. Currently, I do not have content that discusses the importance of maintaining a digital presence or exploring and creating content beyond the learning management system.
Where I'm headed.
Where I'm headed.
I would like to include a unit that subtly introduces the importance of building, maintaining, and fostering a proper digital presence. There is also an OER text that I want to use in my upcoming class revamp that will supplement the main textbook (that is scheduled for replacement). I also want to add a unit on evaluating resources that are found on the internet.
Examples
Examples
Information_Literacy_Concepts.pdfInformation Literacy Concepts is the OER text that I am planning to use to supplement the main textbook for my class. Chapter 2 on Fake News is especially pertinent to the discussion on digital citizenship as it directly deals with digital literacy and the importance of evaluating the resources found on the internet.
Evaluating resources is a fundamental part of information literacy. I created an assignment based on the CSU Chico Library CRAAP test. Students examine an article and evaluate it for Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, and Purpose. The assignment is open ended, allowing students to chose the any information resource (including Wikipedia) and breakdown the steps to critically evaluating the resource in an academic environment.
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