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Last night was a great start to another course. I think it's funny how we all mesh so well and we have never met face to face. Our new instructor seems funny--it's hard to pull off a sense of humor through a computer, but he was funny and enthusiastic. I'm excited to set up some ideas for my students to work with. The part I'm most excited to explore is safety--that being my biggest fear with technology!!! I'm so------- worried I'll give an assignment and my students will encounter something inappropriate. I'm not worried about them doing these actions on purpose, but I need to feel in control of the situation. I want to guide them in ways that will be successful and useful to their learning. I'm excited to get started in this course. Hopefully I leave this class with a little more confidence. I have gained it in every class thus far!! :)
Christy, I thought Jim did an excellent job introducing himself and guiding us through our first class too. And I can't believe we are on our fourth course already. It is going so fast! Along with you, I am looking forward to learning about Internet safety. I teach my elementary students about it, but I would like tips on how I can teach my junior high and high school students about it...even if I just create posters to hang in the computer labs. Every little big can help. I think this will be a good class and we will easily be able to incorporate our new knowledge into our teaching.
ReplyDeleteHi Christy, I know how you feel when you worry about having your students do something that inadvertently leads them to something inappropriate. You might want to be very upfront with the parents and send home something that simply says that you will make every effort to ensure that the children use appropriate resources and safe sites but that the unexpected can still happen. You could tell them that you want to enlist their aid in guiding the kids and have them become your allies.
ReplyDeleteChristy - I talk to the parents during middle school orientation about internet safety issues and reiterate them again at the high school orientation. One of our technology plan goals the next three years it to develop a comprehensive internet safety curriculum at all grade levels in our district. We've especially had problems with Facebook issues, cyberbullying from students in other districts, and we actually had one student being stalked to work and school because of the man finding her on Facebook. Very dangerous situation!
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