Sentences with phrase «thinking about digital citizenship»

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Professional development for the next thing, new ELA / ELD materials, implementing NGSS standards, understanding the Social Student Framework, thinking differently about mathematics instruction, coding, makerspaces, digital citizenship, civics, and the never ending parade of new technology tools.

Retaining an explicit emphasis in the new standards on including «opportunities for students to study relationships among science, technology, and society» (Hicks et al., 2014, Table 1) would open the door to consideration of a set of issues that every future teacher ought to be thinking about, for example, the power relationships enacted online as manifest through sexism, racism, anti-Semitism, and homophobia; the quality of the discourse and information that circulates there and the effects of rumor on reputation; notions of public and private in a digital age; cyber bullying and suicide; copyright and plagiarism; ethics and professional responsibilities related to social media; and a host of other topics and questions that a critical media literacy approach could raise regarding technology and citizenship education.

At eSpark Learning, we believe in teaching students to practice digital citizenship and think critically about the media they consume.