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The article talked about the positives of educating students to be digital citizens. What teachers need to do in order to make online learning a great experience for students was outlined in the article. Customizes which basically means allow yourself to learn all of these tools and use them to teach students to be digital citizens. Teachers also need to be monitoring and seeing what students are posting on a daily basis. I also like the discipline plan the article talked about coping and showing the student the inappropriate content and then either have them apologize and then take away their right to post online. Many of these projects need to be student driven with teachers overseeing so that students can thrive online. The article also mentioned that students need to make digital portfolios and that teachers need to help them create these portfolio. Teachers need to be dynamic and able to create new and innovative projects online that students can share with future colleges.
Should teachers have help monitoring student information?
I know this sound like a lot of fun and I am all for student driven online learning but when It comes to me and my classroom it does take a lot of my class time and I have to tell my principal that many of these projects occur during class time. For instance I use think quest and I post a question and I have students posting read aloud and I really do not have time to monitor it, till I see it the next day. In class we read all the postings and luckily for me not one of my students has posted something inappropriate. If I have posting over the weekend I do have my technology teacher oversee them and if anything is negative I have her call me or text me. But I know many teachers are probably like myself and have very few time to see what is going on online it is very helpful to have a technology teacher to help you out.
What kind of discipline should be taken?
Currently learning online and posting comments is a privilege for students that have good academic behavior in class. But I know that students that struggle would probably really thrive from posting online or doing projects. But does the behavior in class also transcend to online projects. We are using this technology this quarter with one of our best classes this year and are getting great results. Although we want to have all classes posting on think quest but like my technology teacher said the teacher has to observe and monitor the information and currently the teacher in that class is not very tech savvy. So the technology teacher has decided that she does not want to monitor for her because it is a lot of work.
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