Week 5 Blog Post: Web 2.0 Safety Considerations
Web 2.0 Safety = Responsibility, Appropriateness, Common Sense, and Copyright! Discuss just one of these elements. What are the challenges? How would you, as a responsible teacher, monitor your class safety in a Web 2.0 environment?
10 comments:
One way I would monitor class safety in the Web 2.0 environment would be to first preview all ineractive and game sites before showing them to my class.
DRW
Bigger Brother must now monitor Big Brother. What a sad world.
Any interaction must be monitored. Cyberbullying is a major problem and it is much easier to say things to someone in writing than face to face. We must be careful that all students are treated equally. As technology changes we need to be educated and keep up with social media. KM
I like the ideas presented in class of educating our students (and our own children!) of 'netiquette' and cyberbullying. We tend to assume that it's been covered before; but, as my father told me... never assume (it makes an a_ _ of U and ME) (sorry, I digress)
Also, we shouldn't just touch on it at the beginning of the year/lesson; but several times throughout the year.
The monitoring is largely my responsibility due to the age of my classroom students. I will preview the information and pictures to make sure that it meets the needs of students, reenforces the concept taughtand is age appropriate.
It bis very important to have common sense when using the web 2.0tools. A current and up to date AUP (Acceptable Usage Policy) is essential to keep up with ever changing technology.
Responsibility: As was brought up in class yesterday, in order for our students to be responsible internet users and users of Web 2.0 tools, they need to be taught how to be responsible users. This education process should be started at a very early age and continue throughout their lives in our school. We can't depend on parents to do this for us. If we are using certain tools in our classes and/or requiring our students to learn certain tools, we should educate them on the way to use them and why they are important for the learning process. Parents and students should have to sign an acceptable use policy that is directed toward that particular tool or project. The challenges involve not being able to monitor use of these tools when the students are off campus. Also, most of the students know more than the teachers do at this point, so we, as educators, are challenged to learn how to use these tools.LL
We need to be reponsible for teaching our students basic digital citizenship and proper netiquette. Then we need to carefully monitor our students. We can't assume that students will automatically follow the rules, or even remember what they are. Teachers need to be responsible for their own students, but the school has a huge responsibility to provide an acceptable use policy and to provide students with instruction on all aspects of digital citizenship.
I would probably only use web 2.0 tools within the classroom using my smartboard and/or the laptop cart. In this environment, it is possible to monitor each student's work via "walking around and checking" or using a remote monitoring technique.
I also agree with another blogger who said it is imperative to preview all material prior to using it in a classroom situation. It is our responsibility as teachers to ensure the content of websites we recommend is appropriate for our students.
Previewing the sites and knowing the way they work is a great idea to avoid misshaps; also, I think that it is a good idea to set rules and consecuences, in case a sneaky students decide to wonder off the sites they are allowed to work with.
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