Introduction: Shifts to distance learning due to the pandemic have prompted educators to rethink and adapt their pedagogy to the new environment of their classrooms. Many experienced the urgent need to prepare students to be successful in an ever-evolving technological landscape. The biggest challenge for parents was helping their children reach the online class. But […]
DEL Mission Statement and Ethics Audit In Phases I, II, and III of developing this community engagement project, I selected three ethical values and wanted to focus on them when shaping my practice as a digital education leader. Those values are justice, security, and respect. And in the fourth model, I chose moderation. In the […]
Introduction EDTC 6101 ISTE Standard 7a: Inspire and encourage educators and students to use technology for civic engagement and to address challenges to improve their communities. Question: As technology continues to move our knowledge building, learning and interactions online, how do we re-frame our understanding of the role that schools play in our society by making it …
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Introduction EDTC 6101 ISTE Standard 7c: Support educators and students to critically examine the sources of online media and identify underlying assumptions. When schools are looking to protect their students in their digital environments, administrators start with the laws that are in place that their teachers, schools and districts have to follow. CIPA, the Children’s Internet Protection Act, …
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Question: What are the ethical underpinnings of teachers creating curricula for schools for free? #EDU6101 “The information society is like a tree that has been growing its far-reaching branches much more widely, hastily, and chaotically than its conceptual, ethical, and cultural roots. The lack of balance is obvious and a matter of daily experience in …
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Standard: ISTE 6c: Create learning opportunities that challenge students to use a design process and computational thinking to innovate and solve problems with computational thinking. Question: How can my IB MYP Individuals & Societies students use digital platforms as a part of the design cycle to innovate and solve problems with computational thinking? As part …
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Written & Compiled by Ann Katherine Gilcrease. Educator & Lifelong Learner. Digital Education Leadership participant. Seattle Pacific University. Ann Gilcrease is a student in the Digital Education Leadership program at Seattle Pacific University. She received her Bachelors in Music with a minor in Cultural Anthropology from Transylvania University and is in the process of completing …
