This image was created by one of our high school students and shared in the school newsletter last week. While my third graders are not feeling this way quite yet, third grade is still a big step for students in our school as far as their online presence goes. They switch from iPads to Chromebooks. They get their own Gmail accounts. They log on to many new websites using their Google accounts. They are able to send each other gmails and messages through Google Classroom. Some "digital citizenship" issues that have arisen so far have been students discovering violent or sexual images despite our school's filters, students logging on to other students' accounts after figuring our school's password system (ces+student lunch number), and students using prohibited sites like YouTube during time when they should be doing schoolwork. Up until now, as the problems have been limited, I have dealt with them in a reactive way. I'm becoming more aware that I'll need to be more proactive in fostering digital citizenship. If our students are like I was when I was a kid, they have seen or done a lot more than they are willing to share in a classroom setting. I'm planning on doing the lesson I worked on for this week. I'm very curious to see what they share as far as being safe, respectful, and responsible online. I'm hoping that by addressing issues proactively, we can be better prepared to protect ourselves from questionable content, creeps, cheats, hackers, and haters. I think we set a good tone, one of empowerment, when we approach these issues by creating "superheroes" that fight to set things right.
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Megan Burton
2/10/2020 12:22:00 am
Great connections between how the experiences high schoolers face begin in their experiences in elementary school.
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AuthorJeremy Smith teaches third grade at Calistoga Elementary School. Archives
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