Howard Gardner and Digital Media
I am curious!
What are the ethics behind your experience with digital media? Or what beliefs did this video challenge about your thoughts of digital media?
When I listened to Mr. Gardner share his thoughts about the ethics in digital media. I thought about the what is now a yearly experience. I usually get a letter, email, or phone call from a parent informing me that another student in the class posted something threatening on the web towards their child. The problem is that the two students don’t see each other face to face until they get to school. At home online, muscles seem bigger, bravery skyrockets, and friends peer over the shoulder encouraging the bullying.
So where do we teach the students the ethics about digital media. Well from Mr. Gardner's point of view we need something like a cybermentor. I think that teachers should be cybermentors in social networking sites. Teacher's and parents should be the digital role models for the students. When the students witness the ethical use of digital media by adults in their real world, they can then apply those ethical skills to the ambiguous digital world.
MY GOAL: Teach netiquette to the students in my class. I will be their cybermentor on Facebook and other sources of digital media.
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I thought your use of the word "netiquette" was very interesting. I never thought of using the word before and it is very useful in terms of students using the social networking sites or posting anything on the web. It is nice to have students publish things on the internet and allow them to be seen world-wide. But that also means the teacher must be the cyber mentor to make sure what they are publishing will not affect anyone else in the class. I have not had any parents contact me negatively about the use of the internet so I hope that continues.
ReplyDeleteYou made an excellent point in that many of these technological exchanges happen from home, when students don't have a teacher monitoring their behavior. Then we, as teachers, are expected to solve and take care of issues that arose outside of school. Parents should step up and learn how to teach 'netiquette' as well!
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