Friday, May 10, 2013

Digitial Citizenship in my ECE classroom!

In the Technology for Education class that I've been in for the past semester we briefly touched upon the subject of "Digital Citzenship". We learned to use the website Prezi in order to share with other classmates what digital citizenship means to us within our classroom. So, what is digital citizenship? As stated on the American School in London, the definition of digital citizenship is : teaching users the rules of good citizenship online; this usually includes email ettiquette, protecting private information, staying safe online, and how to deal with bullying, whether you're a target or a bystander. Well...what might that mean in the early childhood classroom? It means that the children in my class would learn about internet safety, how to present yourself on the internet, and talking about cyber bullying. I find it important to teach these things in my classroom for the following reasons:
a) Teaching our children digital citizenship early on can prevent cyber bullying in the later years.
b) Teaching our children digital citizenship early on can show students how to properly present themselves online to peers, adults, and other citizens in the community. If taught early on, your students can learn that using the internet in certain ways can really help in the future.
c) Teaching our children digital citizenship early on can show children the safe way to browse online, and what information is safe and not safe, etc.
The main idea of digital citizenship in the Early Childhood Classroom would be mainly cyber bullying, protecting yourself online, and what information to use online, since I will be focussing on Pre - Kindergarten up to 2nd grade.

Here is my Prezi explaining Digital Citizenship a little better:

And here is my works cited page for all the awesome sources that helped me make this Prezi!

Peace, Love, and Happy Teachings! - Miss Caitlin

7 comments:

  1. Caitlin, I love your colors in the Prezi! It accurately brings out your cute, bubbly personality! I think that you appropriately addressed what Digital Citizenship is in Pre-K through 2nd grade. I really was just amazed at how cute you made your Prezi look, it was one of the brightest, most colorful I have seen. Happy Teaching!

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  2. I think that your post was well put together. It included many important parts of digital citizenship. I like how you chose three specific areas that you would address in your classroom. I agree that these are important areas to address. When our students are young we need to narrow down what we teach them. I believe that as they get older more parts of digital citizenship can be added by their other teachers.

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  3. I really enjoyed the layout and ideas inside your prezi. I also like how you stressed why it's important to teach digital citizenship effectively because of what you can change. Bullying is such a huge issue we need to find ways to connect with the students to put a stop to it.

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  4. I really enjoyed your prezi and your post. It was very informative, I liked the way to promote digital citizenship with the activity you listed. I also enjoyed the video you posted!

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  5. Caitlin, you always find such great resources. You need to teach me how to search better! Your videos were EXCELLENT! I thought your post was very informative. I can really hear your voice in your writing. Nice work!!

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  6. Caitlin, I agree with Abbey, you do always find really great resources! I loved the video you added into your Prezi. It gives a good example of how educators can get conversations going with students in their own classrooms to teach digital citizenship. Excellent job like always!

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  7. I liked how in your post you gave some background information with reasons and then within the prezi, you answered all of the questions necessary. You always come up with great resources and different stuff from everyone else especially the video you used in your prezi. It was a great way to really bring everything together. Great Job!

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