Digital Literacy is essential for
educators and students in the twenty first century. As educators we need to understand ways that
technology is being used in life and to teach our students how to effectively
and safely use technology within the classroom for application outside of
school.
Kyle Jones gives a nice overview
of digital literacy in this slide show. http://www.slideshare.net/thecorkboard/digital-literacy-in-a-20-world#
Best practices of digital
literacy include funding for an Instructional Technologist. We are so fortunate to have a Media
Specialist within our district (not specifically within our building) that is
truly digital literate and provides trainings and support. She works with students and staff. I feel she is spread thin.
This is a great list of tools to
use to within developing digital literacy.
Interestingly, some tools listed as encouraged through our district,
while other tools are not currently allowed within our district. I know that using skype is currently blocked
within our district network as there had been a problem with an outsider
accessing our district network through skype.
Digital Etiquette (Netiquette)
Interesting topic. I understand that what people do digitally is
trackable and representative of them for a long time. I found that there are advice column like sites
that share suggestions on how to deal with a wide variety of digital etiquette scenarios.
I really like this Brain Pop
video about digital etiquette. Middle
school students really like Brain Pop and I feel the video hits several
important topics. http://www.brainpop.com/technology/computersandinternet/digitaletiquette/
I don’t think I will use this
lesson on digital etiquette due to the spelling error here not hear. Source doesn’t seem as credible with the
spelling error. https://sites.google.com/a/go.rbe.sk.ca/digital-etiquette-lessons/
This seems like a good list, but
when I noticed that the date was 2001 it made me a bit concerned about not
being as up to date as it could be. http://www.bpl.org/kids/learn/netiquette-for-kids/
I don’t yet love this site, but
am having a hard time with a good netiquette list appropriate for kids. http://www.networketiquette.net/
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