6/13/2017 0 Comments digital literacyGiven your students grade level and the subject matter you teach, consider how you can teach digital citizenship and specifically digital citizenship as it relates to digital communication.
Most of my players are just graduating from high school. Those who are a little older have been in high school in the last five years. Students have been exposed to digital citizenship in their high schools and now at the junior college in their academic classes. In college baseball however, our focus on digital citizenship is in regards to using computers, smartphones and cell phones in a legal and smart way in their personal life. Sharing information like inappropriate pictures or text can be harmful to a student athlete. Everything they do or share could potentially harm them. Please provide three examples on how you might make learning digital citizenship personal for your students. There are four areas of digital citizenship that apply to my players in baseball, digital communication, digital etiquette, digital law and digital access. To make these important parts of digital citizenship personal to students so that they learn and use the skills they learn, they need to see how it is relevant in their lives. Three of the four are all taught but instead of in separate lessons, they are taught in numerous lessons regarding the same topic. Digital etiquette, digital communication and digital law are all important to teach when it comes to being appropriate online. How players use their technology and what they are sharing has to be appropriate. In the media today we have seen how high profile student athletes and pro athletes have misused technology and suffered the consequences whether it be not being able to play for their team anymore, legal ramifications or financial ramifications as well as a major detriment to their character in the media. In order to hit this idea home we look at schools and players, what they did, how it was wrong, alternatives and consequences. By teaching them this crucial information they will know how to protect themselves, their coaches, their friends, the school and the community. Digital access for our players with smartphones makes it easy. I make sure they have access to their library cards and know how to use them. They are given a library card when they register and if for some reason they need computer access, they can have it there. All my players have access to the internet. Even those who financially have it the hardest, make sure they use their money to have internet on their phone.
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