In today’s world, much of our society happens online. It’s where people socialize, share ideas, and debate. However, it also isn’t without potential dangers. Extremist groups recruit online. Cyberspace has been added to land, air, and sea as the fourth arena of warfare. Just as we teach students how to be safe and healthy and to be good citizens in the real world, we now need to help them develop online life skills.
保持领先于曲线
发展如此之多的技术如此之快,以至于似乎很艰巨。一旦我们发现了一个学生喜欢的平台,他们就开始了。关于社交媒体网站,隐私,安全和数据收集的启示以令人眼花spe乱的速度,以至于大多数成年人都很难戴上自己的数字氧气面具,更不用说对他们旁边的孩子有帮助。
幸运的是,该技术本身主要与为学生提供发展数字弹性和成为好数字公民所需的基础无关。这与我们一直在教导他们的生活中并没有什么不同。
Developing Digital Resilience
Digital resilience is the technical, emotional, and critical thinking skills students (and educators) need to enjoy the benefits of the internet while still spotting the dangers and managing the risks.
Let’s start by taking a look at the potential risks students may encounter online. They could stumble upon or have risky content shared by others on their social media feeds. This content could include violent or pornographic imagery or pro-suicide or pro-anorexia. They are open to grooming by sexual predators, recruitment by extremist groups, stalking, and bullying. Like adults, they can be subject to identity theft, phishing, and accidentally downloading malicious code.
Keep Things Private
Kids are so adept at snapping, tweeting, posting, commenting, and hashtagging that it may seem they have the technical skills to manage their safety online. But they may not know how, or think to block an online harasser. They may not be checking their privacy or location settings.
A good conversation to have around a popular social platform is “What are the privacy settings? What information am I sharing that I don’t realize I’m sharing? Who is able to see what I’m sharing? Who may be watching me online?”
Keep Communication Open
Kids face the same emotional challenges online that they face on the playground or in the cafeteria. And they tend to have a stronger reaction to online harassment than real life incidents. They also tend to feel more ashamed of and hide online harassment. If you impart just one message to your students about their online lives, encourage them to seek support and help from an adult if they have any online interaction that makes them uncomfortable.
Make Vetting Online Content a Teachable Moment
In this age of doctored photos, fake videos, memes, misinformation, disinformation, and online trolls, each of us needs to sharpen our critical thinking skills on online content. This is really just a fresh source for examples on fact vs. opinion, point of view, and evaluating the source of information. One challenge with using actual content your students have encountered online is it may contain sensitive material. It would be wise to address this with your administration.
数字公民身份
The other side of the online coin is digital citizenship. As we teach students about being a good citizen in their real-life communities, it is time to extend those lessons and discussions to include what a good citizen does online.
善待
就像现实生活中一样,好的数字公民不会欺负。他们是有礼貌的。他们思考自己的话使对方的感觉如何。各个年龄段的人们倾向于在网上迅速进行粗鲁和欺凌的交流。让我们教我们的学生思考该个人资料图片背后的人。
成为领导者
Good digital citizens are leaders online. They vet information before they share it. They avoid sharing junk information like memes. They lead by example in how they engage with others and refuse to be baited into name-calling.
Be Careful of Your Digital Footprint
学生还需要考虑他们的永久性在线记录以及他们现在在线参与的方式可能会影响未来的工作或其他机会。有一个说法:“互联网永远不会忘记。”即使您删除了某些内容,您也永远不知道是谁下载或进行了屏幕截图。使用互联网档案工具Way Back Machine, everything that has ever been posted online is archived and retrievable.
在考虑如何帮助学生发展他们的数字弹性和数字公民技能时,请研究您已经在教授情感韧性,批判性思维和人身安全的教训。结合示例并讨论这些东西在线外观。
教授这些技能的更多资源
- DigCitUtah provideslesson plans on digital citizenship对于K -12等级。
- componsense.org提供k -12digital citizenship curriculum.
- 这是全球关注的问题。许多欧洲国家都有出色的教师资源。这些沃达丰数字技能课程很容易适应美国教室。
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This is a guest blog by Lydia Snider. Snider served as an educator for nearly 20 years, primarily as a K-5 resource specialist. After leaving teaching, she spent about a decade in the California tech scene and working as a consultant helping companies understand how to use social media for business.