I feel that educators have a duty to teach our students social responsibility. Shared values and social responsibility are what keeps society running. The goal is education is to prepare students to be successful in the future. Today that means making them successful in a 21st-century learning environment. According to Gulec & Yalcin (2020), when …
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Blog Post 6: Security of Data
The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act or COPPA puts specific requirements on websites or internet services offered to children under 13 years of age. The primary goal of the act is to put parents in control over what information is collected from their children online (Federal Trade Commission, 2020). The Children’s Online Privacy Policy Protection …
Blog Post 5: Digital Citizenship
Digital citizenship is an integral part of any 21st-century curriculum. Just like students are taught proper behavior in the classroom setting, they must also be taught appropriate etiquette in online environments. Some think that technology is just about teaching students to create digital projects and utilize technology to aid in learning, but is it so …
Blog Post 4: Digital Rights
Digital rights have been compared to human rights but on the internet. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights lays out specific rights that are to be granted to every person. Digital rights are extensions of those fair inalienable rights (Hutt, 2015). Digital rights matter because so many of the things we do now are online. …
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Blog Post 3: Teaching Media Fluency
Media Fluency is critical to teach our students as they establish themselves as 21st-century learners. According to Watanabe-Crockett (2020), “teaching media fluency skills is crucial to the educational environment as technology continues to reshape how students think and react to digital media and the messages they receive.” Media fluency is communicating by technological formats, just as we …
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Blog Post 2- Learning Culture
A learning culture is set up to support those who continually want to improve their skills and knowledge in their field. According to Gross (2015), he describes those in a supportive learning culture are “people not only want to learn and apply what they’ve learned to help their organization, but they also feel compelled to …
Blog Post 1- Social Responsibility
When one thinks of Social Responsibility in the classroom, the first thing thought of is the information being presented to the students and how it is being offered. It is a teacher’s job to make an environment where all students feel safe and secure while accommodating to the best of their abilities to reach all …
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