Community Engagement Project

The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) provides quality standards for educators on how to approach teaching technology in the classroom. The guiding principles of an educator are leaders and citizens. Educators seek opportunities for leadership to ensure students’ success and empowerment and improve learning and teaching (Morgan, 2020). The principle of citizen focuses […]

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Digital Ethics Audit

7a: Inspire and encourage educators and students to use technology for civic engagement and to address challenges to improve their communities. (ISTE Standards for Coaches 7: Digital Citizen Advocate) I interviewed C. Wardlaw, a director of NQA Childcare Center and an Early Childhood Education professor. I approached this interview with the goal of understanding the…

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Mission Statement-Digital Leadership

As I start my journey as a digital education leader, I must question what is going to be my driving force and what will be the guiding principles. I see it as building a house, laying a good foundation. First of all, I find a sense of purpose in serving the next generation. I feel…

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Safety Respect and Equity in the Evaluation and Applicable Use of Digital Tools

I want to leverage the value applications within digital education to enhance my work in helping children heal and grow from abuse and Adverse Childhood Experiences. Through this course, I identified three guiding values that I wanted to focus on in shaping my practice as a digital education leader. Those values were Safety, Respect and […]

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Respect for differences

Respect, consideration, and putting yourself in other people’s shoes is something that we something forget to do when we interact with people from different social or ethnic background. People should respect other people’s opinions and viewpoints to increase the value of tolerance and enhance co-existence. The concept of tolerance is widely mentioned as something to […]

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Digital Learning Mission Statement

A digital education leader bridges what teachers and students do in the classroom and what is possible. They are there to help support learning by providing tools that allow for an equal voice of the students, better feedback for students and staff, and more unique experiences that help to create lasting memories for students to truly ground their education in wonder, joy, and meaning.

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Learning how to self-control; a path to a healthy digital life

I wish I had a better word to describe the current digital world but to call it a ‘jungle.’ Because there is no standardized law and order to protect our children practically, it is operated by greed feeding off of people’s impulse desire to ‘consume humans’ attention.’ As David S.H. Rosenthal, a retired chief scientist…

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Traditions in a Digital Age

My mother is a role model to me in so many ways. When my own children are having trouble falling asleep, I hum the song she used to sing to […]

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Finding The Right Balance Online

My original question and value of interest centered on the idea of having a healthy balance of online or screen time activity. When I began exploring this question, I wanted to understand how can we find balance in a world that is growing more and more digital in nature; and specifically – how do we […]

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