After working with the 11 tools, I feel like a visitor to the digital world, not even close to being a citizen. What skills I do have and use are really not very advanced compared to the level they could be.
It really was like attempting to learn a new language- so many new terms!
Teaching students to become digitally literate and digitally fluent is crucial to their success in the digital world we live in. Multilingual now includes the digital piece.
Critical skills include finding and accessing resources, determining which ones are accurate and trustworthy. Internet safety is comparable to science lab safety- we've got to teach students how to be safe. Students need to know how to access the Internet if it's not available to them at home.
Students need to learn the legal implications of living in the digital world, including being an offender or a victim.
During our administrative workshop last week, there was lots of discussion about technology use. Case law just isn't fast enough to keep up with what's happening in order to create legal policy. SBISD's employee handbook and Student Code of Conduct
has had to change to address this.
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