After taking thecourse EDLD 5316, I have realized the importance of digital citizenship and the urgency in teaching these skills to our students to have them be contributing members of society. In order to pass on this message to fellow staff, I would hold a professional learning session on an introduction to digital citizenship. The Prezi presentation below would be used as a tool during this session; it would not stand alone. At the beginning of the session, I would share multiple definitions of digital citizenship and inform them that the wording of the definition is not the focus of the day, which would lead us into reading our learning objective for the day: Describe how the nine elements of digital citizenship affect our students via a Gallery Walk in order to gain an understanding of our roles as teachers.
Since our staff follows our school motto (We get kids college, career, and world ready!) with fidelity, I decided to do twist of that motto for this initiative and look into how our mission applies to teaching digital citizenship. After addressing our objective and motto, I will commence the preparation for our Gallery Walk by splitting up the staff into nine groups and assigning each group an element of digital citizenship. Each group will receive a poster-sized graphic organizer, markers, and a laptop with the Prezi presentation pulled up. The graphic organizer will look something like this:
Each group will be instructed to start on the college section, read the examples provided, which have an embedded definition of their element, discuss with members of their group, and write additional examples on the graphic organizer. As groups are working, I will be making my way around the room answering any questions that may come up. After finishing this section, they will be instructed to move on to the career section. Since the prior section provided the definition and modeled responses, this section only provides the prompt to think of examples of how this skill will get kids career ready. After writing down these examples of the graphic organizers, they will repeat this process with the world section. Once the graphic organizer is complete, they will be hung up so we can conduct the gallery walk. The staff will spend 3 minutes at each element and add additional examples they can think of. After the gallery walk, we will conclude by answering a few reflection questions and making personal commitments. In order to receive credit for participating in the professional learning sessions, teachers will need to complete a survey in which they rank the nine elements of digital citizenship in order or most urgent to address to least urgent to address. The results will be used to help choose the topics for digital citizenship lessons that will be done during homeroom. It is important to go based on what the teachers perceive to be most urgent since they will be the ones leading the lessons created by counselors.
For additional insight into the nine elements of digital citizenship and how they can be applied at our campus, please read the following:
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