Reflection Question: Chapter 7, Prompt 1 Reflection Post: When using the Internet with children, there are privacy and acceptable use issues. Describe the issues you are most concerned with and how you plan to address them when you become a teacher. ![]() Children's privacy online is a huge concern for both teachers as well as parents. There are many challenges when it comes to students and their safe and appropriate use of the web. Students need to be taught to be good digital citizens - behaving ethically, being civil to one another, being responsible for themselves, and general good communication skills. The issue most concerning to me is keeping kids safe on the internet. The Department of Justice has a great website on children's safety online. They provide many great tips such as, communicating online safety with your children/students, supervision, awareness (of what apps children are using), using privacy settings and controls, keeping computers in open areas, and teaching children not to share personal information online. While these are a good starting point, I think the crucial factor in keeping kids safe is simply being PRESENT and aware at all times of the children's online activities. Another great resource that I found for teachers is Childnet.com. They have a complete resource bank with free resources for teachers, tool kits, activities and more. I am not a teacher, but if I was to have that responsibility in the future I would make sure to educate myself on best practices and consult with my school district for guidelines and resources in addition to my own research. My Learning Experiences ![]() Our group did a fantastic job coordinating, working together, and playing on our individual strengths, skills, and interests to divide the remaining group projects. We started with the central project (the Lesson Plan) and then built all of our other projects off of that completed project. We looked at all of the group projects for the remaining weeks to divvy up those that would take longer and make a plan of action. Our group communicated with each other, primarily through Slack and text messages. We set up weekly project channels in Slack with the projects due weekly, who would tackle the assignments and the instructions. We then asked questions and received feedback on individual projects to collaborate on a final project to be submitted. This weeks projects can be seen utilizing the links below. Lesson Plan: Since I am not a teacher, this was a new concept to me. I could see, however, how this would be applicable to my job as I design and implement short courses for training. Our textbook, pg. 20 points out the importance of the lesson plan stating that this is the foundation for excellent instruction both in the classroom as well as IT design. there are tools available such as the 10 Minute Lesson Planner to aid in the creation of the lesson plan. Other lesson tools available make it easy to ensure that you are following the national standards as well as providing for differing learning styles and intelligences. Thinkfinity is a source of standards-correlated lesson plans for every grade level that can be customized to your school's planner format. Curriki is a collaborative lesson plan platform that enables teachers to share content at all grade levels. No matter how you go about creating your lesson plan, I think the lesson plan is crucial for any successful classroom teacher. Technology Survey: I use survey's regularly in my job so I will be looking at google docs as an option for those in the future (I typically use survey monkey). I can see how survey's could be very useful in the classroom as well as something different for students to do to enhance learning or do their own research. Table 8.1 The Growth of K-12 Distance Education Program (pg. 227) is a great example of how survey's can be used to track changes in technology use in the traditional classroom. Google Documents: I use google documents regularly, but in particular when training my student workers or for project planning. These are a wonderful tool for collaborative projects/learning and could be easily implemented into classroom and group projects. Chapter 8 discuses various methods for teacher/student interaction in the online platform. The video Tech Tutor 8.1 on page 224 goes over various learning management systems (LMS) as well as course management systems (CMS). Podcast: I love to listen to podcasts, but never considered making one myself before. I could see how this could be applicable in my marketing or recruiting strategies in the future. I can also see how this could be a wonderful homework tool for students or an online resource to supplement a course. Chapter 8, page 269 discusses the use of podcasts and vodcasts in the classroom. Several platforms are suggested including: Adobe Spark, Apple iMovie, Audacity, educational podcast, educational vodcast, RealPlayer, Vimeo, and Windows Movie Maker.
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