This blog will be used in our Web 2.0 Collaboration & Learning in the Classroom professional development series at Maclay School, in Tallahassee, Florida.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Week 5: School Safety in a Web 2.0 World
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?
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Role-playing could be a way to help students learn how to interact with each other politely on blogs. I might project a comment and ask students to suggest an appropriate way to disagree with that comment. AB
Copyright: This is the biggest challenge for me because as a language arts teacher, I feel the pressure to know a lot more about it than I actually do right now. The information on using pictures was incredibly helpful. I require bibliographies all the time, but I have to force myself to keep current with that stuff. Thank God for Dianne because she's only an email or phone call away. KE
I think this is a great class to help us as a school develop policies and address to a changing environment. I enjoy meeting with teachers/administrators from different parts of the school. I like the format and the collaboration to research and teach about things. K.S.
The responsibility as a teacher using web 2.0 in my classroom is to always be an active part of what my students are doing. Everything is filtered by me. For instance, if my students using a classroom blog, all posts would have to come to me. Students would never be allowed to be on their own without being monitored. That is only common sense of being a responsible teacher and role model.
In order to provide students with save learning environment, I think it is necessary for the teacher to be "informed" and "involved" in the learning process. Teaching all of these topics, responsibility, appropriateness, and copyright is essential because asking a student to use common sense is not enough. Commons sense to me is not common sense to a six-year-old or an teenager. In order for everyone to be "on the same page," and to ensure a safe learning environment, teachers must provide guidelines and rubrics. djm
Monitoring a class in a Web 2.0 environment would require constant supervision of students and a detailed explanation of expectations. Students must know that their teacher is serious about internet etiquette and safety and that there is no room for compromise. Consistency in this area is a must. LA
Students and teachers should be constantly trained on all computer, copyright, blogging, and other computer activities. New problems are constantly arising and need to be addressed. PA
Digital Citizenship is a very important topic to focus on here at Maclay. Starting at a young age, our students need to be armed with positive, informative, useful, and relevant Netiquette Procedures. Safety will be ever so important as these students use the Web for more and more school tasks & projects. Raising their awareness level to the great things that are out there for them to use is essential. With that comes the responsibility of educators to make the students aware of digital dangers that lurk out there. Places like CyberSmart Curriculum, Digital Scope & Sequence, and Digital Guidelines for Age Appropriateness will be beneficial for all involved. Educators are responsible in the front line in keeping our students safe. We must balance the benefit of the Web as a tool. Let's Teach the Teachers How to Best Teach the Students! CB
I worry most about the identities of our beautiful kids being spied upon/stalked/or otherwise used by bad people with bad intentions. Safety is my main concern. The implementation of school policies regarding student use of web 2.0 is a good starting point, but these policies will need to be taught and reinforced over and over. Kids' innocence is one of the things that makes them so wonderful to work with. its also their "achiolles heel" in the realm of internet safety. They can't imagine anyone they've never run across, much less wronged in any way, intentinally trying to harm them. I would continually remind my classes of password protections, of having skepticism of overly friendly personalities on the web, and on navigating the tools used in class in a way that gives them the least amount of exposure. EL
It is the responsibilty of the teacher to monitor the students activity on the computer during class time and to encourage the same practices at home. As educators we can remind our students of the consequences. CT
10 comments:
Role-playing could be a way to help students learn how to interact with each other politely on blogs. I might project a comment and ask students to suggest an appropriate way to disagree with that comment.
AB
Copyright: This is the biggest challenge for me because as a language arts teacher, I feel the pressure to know a lot more about it than I actually do right now. The information on using pictures was incredibly helpful. I require bibliographies all the time, but I have to force myself to keep current with that stuff. Thank God for Dianne because she's only an email or phone call away. KE
I think this is a great class to help us as a school develop policies and address to a changing environment. I enjoy meeting with teachers/administrators from different parts of the school. I like the format and the collaboration to research and teach about things. K.S.
The responsibility as a teacher using web 2.0 in my classroom is to always be an active part of what my students are doing. Everything is filtered by me. For instance, if my students using a classroom blog, all posts would have to come to me. Students would never be allowed to be on their own without being monitored. That is only common sense of being a responsible teacher and role model.
In order to provide students with save learning environment, I think it is necessary for the teacher to be "informed" and "involved" in the learning process. Teaching all of these topics, responsibility, appropriateness, and copyright is essential because asking a student to use common sense is not enough. Commons sense to me is not common sense to a six-year-old or an teenager. In order for everyone to be "on the same page," and to ensure a safe learning environment, teachers must provide guidelines and rubrics. djm
Monitoring a class in a Web 2.0 environment would require constant supervision of students and a detailed explanation of expectations. Students must know that their teacher is serious about internet etiquette and safety and that there is no room for compromise. Consistency in this area is a must. LA
Students and teachers should be constantly trained on all computer, copyright, blogging, and other computer activities. New problems are constantly arising and need to be addressed. PA
Digital Citizenship is a very important topic to focus on here at Maclay. Starting at a young age, our students need to be armed with positive, informative, useful, and relevant Netiquette Procedures. Safety will be ever so important as these students use the Web for more and more school tasks & projects. Raising their awareness level to the great things that are out there for them to use is essential. With that comes the responsibility of educators to make the students aware of digital dangers that lurk out there. Places like CyberSmart Curriculum, Digital Scope & Sequence, and Digital Guidelines for Age Appropriateness will be beneficial for all involved. Educators are responsible in the front line in keeping our students safe. We must balance the benefit of the Web as a tool. Let's Teach the Teachers How to Best Teach the Students! CB
I worry most about the identities of our beautiful kids being spied upon/stalked/or otherwise used by bad people with bad intentions. Safety is my main concern. The implementation of school policies regarding student use of web 2.0 is a good starting point, but these policies will need to be taught and reinforced over and over. Kids' innocence is one of the things that makes them so wonderful to work with. its also their "achiolles heel" in the realm of internet safety. They can't imagine anyone they've never run across, much less wronged in any way, intentinally trying to harm them.
I would continually remind my classes of password protections, of having skepticism of overly friendly personalities on the web, and on navigating the tools used in class in a way that gives them the least amount of exposure.
EL
It is the responsibilty of the teacher to monitor the students activity on the computer during class time and to encourage the same practices at home. As educators we can remind our students of the consequences. CT
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