__________________________________________________________________________
Mounds View Resources
Digital Tool Kit The Digital Tool Kit is a Mounds View Schools resources for many digital tools used by teachers in the district. The tools are separated into categories so if you wanted to investigate creation tools you can. Most of the tools in Tech Nerd Camp can be found in the Digital Tool Kit. One of the big features of the Digital Tool Kit is that it identifies the age restriction requirements for a tool such as parental permission under 13 or written parental permission. There is also a link to an example parent letter under the evaluating tools tab that can help you create a letter for parents at the beginning of the school year.
Evaluation Tool for High Quality Instruction: Before you decide to use an app in class, you need to make sure that resource is appropriate for the age of your students and that you have attained the required permissions from parents and your principal. This tool will guide you through that process.
Chromebook Classroom Procedures: A big part of using any tools in class is determining what rules, procedures, and guidelines surround the tools. Technology tools are no different. In order to be successful with students, a set of procedures needs to be in place and taught to students from day 1. The best way to view the video below is to maximize it which will open it in a new window.
Digital Citizenship
This is one example of how things online can change. Google used to have a digital citizenship online course that you could take and the week 9 activity was going to be going through that course. Google changed the structure of their courses to make them more interwoven so now there isn't a section that specifically deals with all of the aspects of digital citizenship. Instead we looked through the Google trainings and found the two that contained the most aspects of digital citizenship which are Unit 9: Teach Students Online Skills and Unit 13: Promote Digital Citizenship and Positive Online Behavior. These two units are part of the course that you would complete if you wanted to become a Google Certified Educator Level 1. Once you are finished with these two units, you are going to read the scenarios below and look through the Mounds View resources. The reflection for this week is more extensive so make sure you take the time to think about and write a reflection for each of the bullet points in the reflection.
Scenario 1
Miss Starbuck decided to have her reading students use Blogger to create blog posts. The students were really excited about the idea. Many started to log in from home to create posts and comment on each other's work, but their posts quickly got out of hand. One student figured out how to post photos and included dangerous details like names and locations. Other students posted mean comments about classmates. An angry parent complained to the principal, who was unaware that Miss Starbuck was using Blogger in the first place.
Scenario 2
Mr. Kirk is excited to use Google Apps for Education with his third grade students. He jumps in with both feet and his classes are off and running. Because he started so quickly, he never thought about putting policies and procedures in place. After a few weeks, students are spending more time off task than on. They are creating and sharing Docs as a way to bully each other, adding inappropriate comments in Google Classroom, and deleting or changing other students' work. Mr. Kirk doesn't know what to do, so he suspends all technology use in his class, abandoning it completely and any of its benefits.
Scenario 3
Mr. McFly has decided to get with the twenty-first century and have his economics students create videos for their final project. He has each student create a YouTube channel to post their projects, without notifying his principal or his students' parents. He also didn't teach students how to change privacy settings, so kids start getting inappropriate comments from unknown users.
Scenario 4
Mrs. Janeway decided to have her middle school students create digital projects then use Snagit to create video presentations of their projects. Mrs. Janeway discovered in the computer lab while her eighth grade students were creating their accounts that Snagit required parental permission for students under 13. This didn't pose a problem for her eighth graders, but Mrs. Janeway panicked because the following period she planned to do the same activity with her sixth graders.
__________________________________________________________________________
Miss Starbuck decided to have her reading students use Blogger to create blog posts. The students were really excited about the idea. Many started to log in from home to create posts and comment on each other's work, but their posts quickly got out of hand. One student figured out how to post photos and included dangerous details like names and locations. Other students posted mean comments about classmates. An angry parent complained to the principal, who was unaware that Miss Starbuck was using Blogger in the first place.
Scenario 2
Mr. Kirk is excited to use Google Apps for Education with his third grade students. He jumps in with both feet and his classes are off and running. Because he started so quickly, he never thought about putting policies and procedures in place. After a few weeks, students are spending more time off task than on. They are creating and sharing Docs as a way to bully each other, adding inappropriate comments in Google Classroom, and deleting or changing other students' work. Mr. Kirk doesn't know what to do, so he suspends all technology use in his class, abandoning it completely and any of its benefits.
Scenario 3
Mr. McFly has decided to get with the twenty-first century and have his economics students create videos for their final project. He has each student create a YouTube channel to post their projects, without notifying his principal or his students' parents. He also didn't teach students how to change privacy settings, so kids start getting inappropriate comments from unknown users.
Scenario 4
Mrs. Janeway decided to have her middle school students create digital projects then use Snagit to create video presentations of their projects. Mrs. Janeway discovered in the computer lab while her eighth grade students were creating their accounts that Snagit required parental permission for students under 13. This didn't pose a problem for her eighth graders, but Mrs. Janeway panicked because the following period she planned to do the same activity with her sixth graders.
__________________________________________________________________________
To Complete Activity 9:
- Look at the digital tool kit and find at least two tools that were not a part of tech nerd camp that you want to investigate further. Also spend time looking at the parent letter.
- Watch the procedures video and identify which procedures are most important for your class.
- Work through Google's Digital Citizenship Training.
- Read the scenarios posted above.
- Write a reflection on your blog commenting on the following prompts:
- Discuss the possible ethical issues involved in two of the scenarios.
- Determine if the safety or well-being of anyone is in jeopardy.
- What advice, strategy, or policy would you recommend to individuals or schools based on this scenario?
- Share any real-life incidents or personal connections related to the scenario.
- How can the Mounds View Resources help to implement high quality instructional practices with with technology?
- What are the two digital tool kit tools you chose to investigate further and why?
- What are some procedures that you can implement in your class and which would you like to implement in your whole PLC or whole building?
- Comment on 3 other nerds' posts.
No comments:
Post a Comment