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Sunday, October 4, 2015
Digital Post Blog #D
As I chapter 5 "Teaching Information Literacy and Digital Citizenship" I came across a few good points. Search Engines are great because they are so easy to use you can search just about everything that comes to mind and something will always pop up from the world wide web. As soon as you type a word or phrase the incredible fast speed in which results pop up is phenomenal.
We should also know the responsibility that comes about digital citizenship. Copyright is a legal protection given by the laws of the United States to a person's creative "literacy, dramatic, musical, or artistic work". Just about everything is copyrighted so you have to be careful with what you use when doing research. You must have the permission of the author to use that item whether it be pictures video or idea. "Fair use" allows teachers and students to use limited amounts of copyrighted material for educational or research purposes.
One concept in this book that I feel strongly about is "cyberbullying". It seems to be happened more often and attack our young individuals. Cyberbullying is a way of bullying, or being attacked or targeted, by the internet. Most common sites would be social media sites , such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Myspace, etc. Children or teenagers could be targeted just for their gender, sexual preference, cultural, or even their social class status. Cyberbullying has caused 4,500 deaths per year. As teachers we need to put a stop to it a zero tolerance policy can help. Although there will be students to afraid to come forward we need to be not just a teacher but someone they can confide in. Being a teacher is more then teaching a lesson each day we make impacts whether we realize it or not. Lets make a difference
References:
Cyberbullying Rampant on the Internet. (n.d.). Retrieved October 4, 2015, from http://www.cyberbullyhotline.com/07-10-12-scourge.html
Maloy, Robert, Verock-O’Loughlin,Ruth-Ellen, Edwards, Sharon A., and Woolf, Beverly Park (2013). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. 2nd Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc.
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