4.2: Safe, Healthy, Legal and Ethical Use
Candidates model and facilitate the safe, healthy, legal, and ethical uses of digital information and technologies. (PSC 4.2/ISTE 5b)
Artifact: Presentation for ITEC 7445 - Multimedia and Web Design for Educators
Blog post on Internet Safety
Reflection
This artifact was created by myself for professional development training for International Baccalaureate (IB) educators in a Category 1 workshop (for educators new to the programme) and for use for new faculty new to the IB programme in Atlanta International School (AIS) if required. The PowerPoint has presentation notes for the delivery purposes.
This artifact demonstrates the safe, healthy, legal and ethical use of information and technologies in the context of what IB educators would see and uses vignettes and scenarios in an interactive setting to place the use of data and technology into the context of their teaching and learning. Each vignette models the use of technology and data and opens the facilitator to a discussion about the legal and ethical use. This professional development is considered to be part of a broader spectrum of a two-and-a-half day conference and would last about thirty minutes in total.
In completing this artifact, there were many places from where I could draw information to up skill and give practical knowledge to the educators participating in the session. Therefore, I augmented the workshop with a particular blog post that included all the links to particular resources that allowed the educators to tailor their safe, healthy, legal and ethical uses of digital information and technology in their individual school settings.
From creating these artifacts, I learned that there is a wealth of information from where I can draw many excellent resources for educators to make informed decisions for their students. This also needs to be a collegial conversation beyond a PowerPoint presentation in a professional development workshop – as it is not enough for a one teacher to practice safe, healthy, legal, and ethical uses of digital information and technologies in isolation. This needs to be an annual conversation, with consistent scaffolding of support and policies in the school environment and by the administration. In working with educators after delivering this part of the workshop, many wanted to deepen the conversation into other parts of the school community, for example, pulling the parents into the discussion. Therefore, safe, healthy, legal, and ethical uses of digital information and technologies is not a box to just check in terms of delivery to faculty annually; it needs to be threaded into daily practice and carefully communicated to all stakeholders in the school community.
Certainly, in ascertaining a using these artifacts to measure how we handle safe, healthy, legal, and ethical uses of digital information and technologies in our community, it continues to be a constant conversation. As I write this reflection, I spent much of the day yesterday going through iMessages sent by students that did not display their best character or the most caring aspects of the IB Learner Profile (the character referencing used with students in an IB setting). This illustrates further the need for consistent and clear communication with the students in terms of their ethical use of technology. We need to model the behaviors that we wish to see and I find that I am having more conversations of that nature with teachers, especially concerning mobile digital devices in their classrooms. As the school reviews the policy concerning the Student Acceptable Use Policy (SAUP), these kind of considerations might be placed to faculty for consideration in back to school discussions in August, given this evidence.
This artifact was created by myself for professional development training for International Baccalaureate (IB) educators in a Category 1 workshop (for educators new to the programme) and for use for new faculty new to the IB programme in Atlanta International School (AIS) if required. The PowerPoint has presentation notes for the delivery purposes.
This artifact demonstrates the safe, healthy, legal and ethical use of information and technologies in the context of what IB educators would see and uses vignettes and scenarios in an interactive setting to place the use of data and technology into the context of their teaching and learning. Each vignette models the use of technology and data and opens the facilitator to a discussion about the legal and ethical use. This professional development is considered to be part of a broader spectrum of a two-and-a-half day conference and would last about thirty minutes in total.
In completing this artifact, there were many places from where I could draw information to up skill and give practical knowledge to the educators participating in the session. Therefore, I augmented the workshop with a particular blog post that included all the links to particular resources that allowed the educators to tailor their safe, healthy, legal and ethical uses of digital information and technology in their individual school settings.
From creating these artifacts, I learned that there is a wealth of information from where I can draw many excellent resources for educators to make informed decisions for their students. This also needs to be a collegial conversation beyond a PowerPoint presentation in a professional development workshop – as it is not enough for a one teacher to practice safe, healthy, legal, and ethical uses of digital information and technologies in isolation. This needs to be an annual conversation, with consistent scaffolding of support and policies in the school environment and by the administration. In working with educators after delivering this part of the workshop, many wanted to deepen the conversation into other parts of the school community, for example, pulling the parents into the discussion. Therefore, safe, healthy, legal, and ethical uses of digital information and technologies is not a box to just check in terms of delivery to faculty annually; it needs to be threaded into daily practice and carefully communicated to all stakeholders in the school community.
Certainly, in ascertaining a using these artifacts to measure how we handle safe, healthy, legal, and ethical uses of digital information and technologies in our community, it continues to be a constant conversation. As I write this reflection, I spent much of the day yesterday going through iMessages sent by students that did not display their best character or the most caring aspects of the IB Learner Profile (the character referencing used with students in an IB setting). This illustrates further the need for consistent and clear communication with the students in terms of their ethical use of technology. We need to model the behaviors that we wish to see and I find that I am having more conversations of that nature with teachers, especially concerning mobile digital devices in their classrooms. As the school reviews the policy concerning the Student Acceptable Use Policy (SAUP), these kind of considerations might be placed to faculty for consideration in back to school discussions in August, given this evidence.