The sixth element of digital citizenship is digital law, which involves the ethics of technology and holding users accountable for their actions and deeds. The ease of sharing, downloading, and posting online content has made information so readily available that students do not consider if something is inappropriate or illegal. Intellectual property rights and copyright protection are two important laws with serious legal consequences. The most popular violation is downloading and sharing music files, which the Recording Industry Association of America has fined students for. However, a 2003 survey found that less than 25% of students believe this is wrong and in 2009, a three-year compilation of 16 countries by the International Federation …show more content…
If a school has current issues with unacceptable technology use, like using phones on tests, then they should focus on communication and rights and responsibilities. If a school has current issues with cyberbullying, then they should focus on etiquette and rights and responsibilities. The current issues will vary from school to school, so schools need to adapt and adjust any digital citizenship program to accommodate their specific needs. However, schools need to be informed of the elements and what students can gain from learning them to determine which elements should be prioritized (Ribble, 2015, pp 59). Teachers need to be up-to-date on new technologies to be aware of how they may be abused and students need to have instilled the basic knowledge, skills, and morals to refrain from abusing technology. For instance, teachers did not recognize text messaging as a problem until students started sharing test answers. With the implementation of a digital citizenship program, schools will teach appropriate use of technology and awareness of the consequences of not demonstrating appropriate use, which will prevent inappropriate behaviors, such as cheating. In remaining up-to-date on new technologies, schools can prioritize and update their digital citizenship curriculum to better benefit the school …show more content…
Therefore, digital citizenship needs to be addressed in schools and teachers need to approach the topics in appropriate manners so the entire school community can benefit from digital technology use (Ribble, 2015, pp 55). it is not enough to simply provide students with technology. Students need to be protected and provided with guidance to effectively assist in their learning. Instead of implementing technology use agreements and policies which can lead to banishment from technology, schools need to empower students by including the positive aspects of technology use (Dotterer, 2016, pp 63). Teaching digital citizenship can prevent inappropriate behaviors and set students up for a lifetime of success using technology. In cases where schools do not have the resources or time to implement a class dedicated to digital citizenship, alternative can be incorporated such as discussing appropriate use whenever the opportunity arises in planned lessons throughout all grade levels and courses. Students know how to use technology, but they do not know or understand the risks and consequences of their digital use and interactions. Digital citizenship is not instinctive and students must learn it to be safe and successful in the digital world. Teaching digital citizenship is essential to student success at
Many schools now send kids home with a laptop or a tablet for use in class and home. This helps to teach students early on how to use technology to help them do well in school and teaches them responsibility. This teaches children how to learn efficiently and understand how to find the information they need. As Megan Poore suggests in “Digital Literacy: Human Flourishing and Collective Intelligence in a Knowledge Society”, that it is not just about learning how to process what we learn. It is also about “raising people’s critical consciousness to a point where they become aware of their own historicity, so that they can intervene in and change the world - which is arguably the whole purpose of education to begin with” (2011, pg.
Post inception of the cell phone has fueled a shift in the civility of adolescent social interaction. Gone are the days of seeing teenagers imaginatively playing alongside each other with the only restriction being his or her ability to effectively communicate. Virtual conversations, text messages and online social networks have replaced development of social skills through personal interactions. Some educators insist that cell phones provide a unique opportunity to capitalize on the learning experience in the modern classroom. Unfortunately, cell phones also provide an opportunity for adolescents to compromise their ethical values and moral standards. Adolescents are known to be source for cheating on exams, disrupting the classroom, and promoting inappropriate behaviors. Distracting characteristics of cell phone usage have shown a negative effect on the reading/writing ability of the adolescent and their subsequent readiness for higher learning. School administrators are challenged to balance the right of possession of the devices by adolescents and the monitoring /control of the school environment during a crisis. A school administrator named Patrick Gabriel drives a point home when he says “The constant use of cell phones, perhaps symbolic of life made virtual by all technology, seems to compound the problem. It has a powerful pull on so many. From my office window, I see students leaving school early or arriving late texting and calling with practically every step they take. The need to stay connected at every moment trumps all other behavior”(38) . Educators, parents and students must not ignore the temptation to let the addictive behavior associated with cell phones to dictate the classrooms learning environment. The value...
With all of the technological advances there are more things smartphones, computers, etc. can do. More things to distract us from what we need to do. In the article “Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction” Matt Richtel builds his argument by using the anecdotes of a few specific high school students and teachers. Richtel also understands his audience because he develops the article in a way where readers are introduced to the topic of digital media’s effect on students with sufficient and reliable information.
ring it as a valuable learning tool. When you have a tool as useful and speedy as a smartphone or tablet at hand, many of us would be tempted to take a moment and peek at sports scores, the latest headlines, or the number of likes we’ve accumulated on our latest Facebook or Instagram posts. And of course, students are not immune to these temptations. Texts from friends, tweets from celebrities, the latest online game, and a plethora of other tools and apps all have the potential to distract them from your classroom activities. What is clear is that if such use is permitted, there should be guidelines and rules in place. Students should be taught online safety, the use of judgment in determining good quality sources of information, and restraint
“A major one would be monitoring our student’s activities on their cell phones, laptops, and tablets. Monitoring student’s social media helps schools identify signs of trouble” (Opposing Viewpoint). Students rely on their electronic devices to get through their days. If we could just help the students understand the school violence is not okay and doesn’t get you anywhere good in life. Overall, school violence is one the most concerning problems we face currently.
In a survey that was recently conducted, one third of teens with cellular devices admitted to storing information for reference during tests, and even texting friends about answers. The parents of these pupils believe that their child has enough integrity to prevent them from cheating, but unfortunately they are incorrect. Before we can eliminate cheating, we need to address the fact that nearly 1 in 4 students presume that the act of using a cell phone for information or answers is not cheating (Miners). Inappropriate cell phone use does not stop there. More than half of adolescents and teens have experienced cyber bullying and around an equal amount are ...
Technology is growing at an exponential rate; this presents many challenges and advantages to online and campus students alike. The potential and ability to cheat is greatly increased. In the days before this "technology boom" answers were being written on hands, arms, and anything else that was capable of being marked on. Now cheating is more than easy. With mp3 players, camera phones and PDA's cheating is literally just a click away! Team A will show how technology has increased by showing the various different ways to cheat, what students think about cheating, and what teachers are doing to prevent it.
Electronics are a huge part of our society. “Out of the world’s estimated 7 billion people, 6 billion have access to mobile phones” (Wang). Over thousands of these cell phones are owned by students K-12. A major debate topic is should cell phones be allowed in schools? “Twenty-four percent of schools have banned mobile devices altogether and sixty-two percent allow them on school grounds, but not in the classroom” (Raths). Cell phones should not be allowed in school because children focus more on the phone than schoolwork, it will create more drama, and it promotes cheating.
Cyber Citizenship or Cyber ethics is the proper way to use the internet. (www.cybercitizenship.org/ethics/ethics.html) One way to use cyber citizenship properly, is to stay on topic if you're on a forum and don't post anything inappropriate. Another way to use proper cyber citizenship is do nor post false information and make sure you use a reliable source. Remember what you post could be seen by other people. Proper cyber citizenship is a great thing to have when doing schoolwork.
One reason to consider the introduction of cell phones in learning is to promote digital etiquette, a concept that is foreign to most people. According to Liz Kolb (the author of “Toys to Tools”) Digital etiquette is “a basic set of rules you should follow in order to make the internet better for others, and better for you.” Kolb says in her book that “an educator’s job is to help students navigate and stay safe in their media world”. Students often are unaware to the consequences of their use and misuse of technology. Currently, many students do not overthink about protecting their own privacy. For example 55% of students do not care whether the digital material they use is copyrighted. Students ages 10 to 17 often do not take in appropriate cell phone use. According to Kolb “While nine out of ten 10- to 17- year olds believe that they are courteous on their cell phones, 52% admit to sending text messages at the movie theater, while 28% admit to sending texts at the dinner table.” These statistics show that teens are unaware with cell pho...
Andy Carvin states “ internet access in schools isn’t worth a hill of beans if teachers aren’t prepared to take full advantage of technology” (2000). Schools spend a lot of money on computer hardware and software as well as other technologies without realizing that many of their employees are unprepared to include them in their teaching and use them to their advantages. Educators often use technology as a classroom management tool rather than an educational one, allowing computer time as a reward for good behavior (Clark & Gorski, 2001). The problem with this is that students learn to use the computer for games and such because it is their reward instead of using it on their own time for educational purposes. This is teaching them the wrong idea. Margaret Honey, director of the Center for Children and Technology in NYC said it best, “The bottom line is, you don’t just put technology into schools or into homes and expect miracles to happen. The technology is only as good as the program that surrounds it” (Meyer, 2002, p.2).
Technology affects everyone! Whether positive or negative, we are all affected, how it manifests itself into problems for youth will be studied and debated for years. Balancing technology throughout the educational process and keeping with current trends and uses of technology will affect everyone. Technology has transformed our youth’s daily and social lives. How do we measure the effects of technology on our ability to socialize or have a successful social life? Socializing is not just talking face to face, it’s our ability to interact, learn, and create original thought. Technology hindering today’s youth and their ability to socialize is affecting their capacity to read, write, and communicate. Today’s youth depends on careful considerations for the implementation of technologies. Our youth do not have the capability to convey their emotions through the use of technology, understand sadness, happiness or joy through simple text or emails. Communicating through the use of text, chat, and social network sites is lost using abbreviations and slang, inhibiting the use of the Standard English language. Using computers and hand held devices for relationships, reading, writing, and entertainment, turning them into introverted and socially inept individuals. Current trends resonating from our educational institutions to our workplace can be examples of how technology has altered the way younger people communicate. This tragedy transcends from youth to adulthood affecting the workplace. Social networking sites have begun to take hours away from employers. How do students understand ethical and moral dilemmas unless they are allowed to make mistakes and work through a particular problem? Creative and original thought needs...
Technology has allowed students, teachers, and parents to access unlimited resources instantly. The ease of access to school services and materials helps students in many ways. Redd makes a good point stating that “Many of these mobile devices are characterized as miniature classroom computers that allow students to partake in the ‘anytime, anywhere’ learning movement” (30). Students today use all types of electronic devices to do the unimaginable. The internet is a portal for students to connect to everything around the world giving them instantaneous access to resources. Imagine going throughout a day without the aid of technology, it detracts the learning process and limits accessibility. Students find it easier to access coursework, “Some said they were reluctant to use mobile phone functions such as SMS texting and information downloads for course-related activities” (Moule 61). Technology is always being implicated through day to day life situations. Student’s instantaneous access to unlimited resources...
The first reason why downloading and uploading copyrighted materials from the Internet should be legal is that downloading copyrighted materials positively affects the economy. The European Commission Joint Research Center reported that the profits of music companies would be 2% lower if uploading and downloading copyrighted materials were banned. However, music companies are able to acquire more profits despite illegal downloading because many people tend to purchase CDs or DVDs after watching or listening to copyrighted materials for free. Moreover, the research showed that people who download music illegally spent more money to buy music than people who did not download illegally. In addition, research conducted by the Swiss government informed that one-third of Swiss people downloaded copyrighted materials from the Internet because personal use of copyrighted materials is legal in Switzerland. Even though there is a fact that many people can download copyrighted materials from the Internet legally in Switzerland, the amount of money that people spend to buy copyrighted materials is not f...
Imagine someone born in the early 1900’s entering a modern-day classroom. They would likely be confused as to what televisions, computers, cell phones, and other electronic devices are. It is also likely that they would be overwhelmed by the instant access to information that the internet provides. Digital media has become a large part of people’s everyday lives especially with the rise of digital media in classrooms. Digital media is growing so rapidly that people who are not adapting to this shift in culture are falling behind and becoming victims of the “digital divide”, this is leaving people misinformed. Digital media has a large effect on the way that people communicate, this is especially evident in the way that students interact with