ISTE 4: Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility
ISTE 4 focuses on how teachers understand local and global societal issues and responsibilities in an evolving digital culture and exhibit legal and ethical behavior in your professional practices. My responsibility as a teacher is to focus on the citizenship and responsibility of the digital world. The main focus is copyrighting. Copyrights are a crucial part in the digital world, as information is presented at the fingertips, it is very easy to use another person's work. As teachers, our responsibility is to teach the majority of the up and coming users of technology to understand the importance of doing your own work. As teachers, modeling behavior is key. Citing work on PowerPoints or other works are important. Also, having policies set in stone for plagiarism is key on how to set clear standards. Starting every year with a internet safety class also talking about plagiarism as well. The value of digital citizenship is really important. For students, understanding the responsibility of appropriate behavior on the internet and/or digital world. The ability to use the digital world safely helps students become less likely targets for inappropriate material/people or con artists. Another issue with digital citizenship is knowing whether a site is fake or not. This means the website is either making up or distorting the truth. This creates conservancy and false information being spread out into the public. Recognizing whether the site is fake will help during research or getting information in general. Addressing both plagiarism and fake sites will be addressed the first weeks of class. The WebQuest and Thinglink projects are both used in class activities. Citing the sources in both projects to be an example for students is key. Also, making the project to take what the students have learned and apply the material which limits the likelihood of plagiarism.
ISTE 4 focuses on how teachers understand local and global societal issues and responsibilities in an evolving digital culture and exhibit legal and ethical behavior in your professional practices. My responsibility as a teacher is to focus on the citizenship and responsibility of the digital world. The main focus is copyrighting. Copyrights are a crucial part in the digital world, as information is presented at the fingertips, it is very easy to use another person's work. As teachers, our responsibility is to teach the majority of the up and coming users of technology to understand the importance of doing your own work. As teachers, modeling behavior is key. Citing work on PowerPoints or other works are important. Also, having policies set in stone for plagiarism is key on how to set clear standards. Starting every year with a internet safety class also talking about plagiarism as well. The value of digital citizenship is really important. For students, understanding the responsibility of appropriate behavior on the internet and/or digital world. The ability to use the digital world safely helps students become less likely targets for inappropriate material/people or con artists. Another issue with digital citizenship is knowing whether a site is fake or not. This means the website is either making up or distorting the truth. This creates conservancy and false information being spread out into the public. Recognizing whether the site is fake will help during research or getting information in general. Addressing both plagiarism and fake sites will be addressed the first weeks of class. The WebQuest and Thinglink projects are both used in class activities. Citing the sources in both projects to be an example for students is key. Also, making the project to take what the students have learned and apply the material which limits the likelihood of plagiarism.