This Button will take you to the first site I learned about in my study of teaching our students to be digital citizens. The site is Stanford History Education group. I really find this site to be very useful for high school we can teach our students content while teaching digital citizenship. The way the site presents the lessons students are learning critical thinking and communication skill as they determine if YouTube videos, twitter, Wikipedia, and other social media are reliable sources. I think these resources could be very useful as our school creates school wide writing and reading assessments we could use content from this site and they would double their learning since they would also be learning digital citizenship. This button will take you to Common Sense Education which is a wealth of information on the topic of digital citizenship, a one stop shop for educators and parents. Looking through this site I realized I have a lot of work to do on this topic. I use ECHO agendas, I link resources, often I create a list of resources for them to choose from as they do research so I know they will have accurate information. With further interaction with this site I realized I need to be more intentional about teaching digital citizenship and call it that in class/ school. I think I am going to mention this to my principal and show her the website because I think this should be taught school wide in our advisory classes and this site has it presented so well for us to do that.
As a related side note I participated in a webinar on Climate Education at the beginning of the year and the entire reason for the webinar was due to a resource that was mailed to science teacher saying scientist don't agree on climate change and made claim climate change was not supported by scientific data which is a huge fallacy . The title of the webinar was Turning Misinformation into Educational Opportunity. They presented a method to have students evaluate scientific information which I am beginning to teach this week called FLICC: The five characteristics of science denial (Fake experts, Logical fallacies, Impossible expectations, Cherry picking, Conspiracy theories). So now that I really think about it I am teaching this in the context of my subject of science but I need to expand this further. This is a big topic that will take a village to teach it needs to come from district, school, teachers, parents, and peers. Technology is moving faster than we can keep up. Keeping up is necessary for our students to be safe responsible digital citizens. Thank you for this information and resources Scott.
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JP Castillo
2/11/2019 10:05:12 pm
I really like how Common Sense has organized and set up their curriculum! makes my job a lot easier to customize it to my students. It blows my mind sometimes at the amount of resources true and untrue that are available to our students!
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Julie LovieJulie Lovie Is a Math and Science teacher at Valley Oak High School with 25 years experience in teaching at a continuation high school. Julie Also teaches at Napa valley Adult School in the High School Diploma Program. She is passionate about the environment, loves gardening, and learning. Archives
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