Moving forward, it we all make digital citizenship a part of our daily existence, then we can mitigate the damaging impacts of digital technologies. There are a lot of benefits and growth to be gained from these advances. They can be great things in our lives, but we have to work hard to make sure that we use them correctly. Digital tools and environments are neither good nor bad. The way we use them is what determines the impact they have on our lives. We should all learn from our mistakes. If we don’t be active, alert, and informed users, then these technologies will have a negative impact on our lives. On the other hand, they can be hugely beneficial.
References Brewer, G., & Kerslake, J. (2015). Cyberbullying, self-esteem, empathy and loneliness. Computers in Human Behavior, 48, 255-260. Briz, N. (2018, July 26). This is your digital fingerprint [blog post]. Retrieved from https://blog.mozilla.org/internetcitizen/2018/07/26/this-is-your-digital-fingerprint/ Byers, D. (2018, April 11). Senate fails its zuckerburg test. CNN Business. Retrieved from https://money.cnn.com/2018/04/10/technology/senate-mark-zuckerberg-testimony/index.html Digital citizenship (n.d.). Retrieved from https://esafety.gov.au/education-resources/classroom-resources/digital-citizenship Prince. (n.d.). Prince quotes. Retreived on August 28, 2019 from https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/prince_751810 Repko, M. and Vestal, A. (2019, August 30). Dallas’ digital haves and have-nots. Dallas Morning News. Retrieved from https://interactives.dallasnews.com/2019/dallas-digital-divide/ Ribble, M. (2015). Digital citizenship in schools (3rd ed.). Eugene, OR: International Society of Technology in Education.
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The things we are doing as a district fall right in line with the suggestions made by Hinduja and Patchin (2015). We have had things like tip-lines and programs to raise awareness before. Now, we are taking even stronger approaches to work with everyone. The main thing we are doing is building the empathy of everyone in the community. Along with that, we aer working hard to instill the ethics of digital citinzenship within the context of citizenship as well. Throughout the whole school, these values are everywhere. We aer moving from it being a top-down, lecture situation. We are working to make it a part of the culture.
In our community, we have seen the effects that cyberbullying can have. On the surface, our students are generally nice and well-mannered. Unfortunately, our school is like most others and has mor than its share of cyberbullying problems (Cyberbullying statistics, n.d.). Just like other digital citizenship problems, it wasn’t caused by new technology. It was made possible through our own inaction, not staying up to date on how these technologies work, and using the convience that they bring to think that children were learning how to be safe on them through using them. As we’ve seen, that isn’t the case. Changing the course of cyberbullying is something that will require a lot of work and dedication by everyone. We can’t just wish it away or put up a poster and hope it stops. The solution lies in hard work by everyone and creating common understandings between us. From what I’ve read and seen, cyberbullying is not the root of the problem or the cause. It is a symptom of larger problems that we need to address. References Ansary, N., Elias, M., Greene, M., & Green, S. (2015) Best practices to address or reduce bullying in school. Kappan. 97(2), 30-35. Retrieved from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282305370_Best_practices_to_address_or_reduce_bullying_in_schools Cyberbullying statistics. (n.d.) Retrieved on September 15, 2019 from https://enough.org/stats_cyberbullying Hinduja, S. & Patchin, J. (2015). Developing a positive school climate: Top ten tips to prevent bullying and cyberbullying.Cyberbullying Research Center. Retrieved from https://cyberbullying.org/School-Climate-Top-Ten-Tips-To-Prevent-Cyberbullying.pdf
Prompt 1. Copyright in the News -
A new Librarian of Congress will be appointed to replace the retired James Billington who served for the past 28 years. Billington took office before the advent of the World Wide Web and the sweeping changes of the information age. Presently the Librarian of Congress oversees the U.S. Copyright Office, but some think this should change. The Hudson Institute recently released a white paper detailing why the U.S. Copyright Office should be separated from the Library of Congress. After reading the white paper, do you think the Hudson Institute makes a good case for separation or should they remain together? The paper does a good job of arguing their case. The copyright office is large, unwieldy, and in need of an overhaul. It is a system that was patched and revised as it grew. Being structured in the way it is makes it difficult to operate. On the other hand, I think that they hurt their case about partisanship in the way it is presented. The organization the paper is written for states that they are politically conservative. The case made for congress approving a new librarian in made in response to members of the democratic party. There is no reason to believe that any appointment situation will be without political influence. Finally, I am still trying to understand how moving the office will create smaller government. The only “smaller” I can see in the argument is in optimizing the operation through digitization. To be honest, if the paper had actually stayed away from the political aspects, such as fear over a new librarian, then the case would be made stronger and make more sense to more people. References Tepp, S. and Oman, R. (2015, October). A 21st century copyright office: The conservative case for reform. Hudson Institute. Retrieved from https://www.hudson.org/research/11772-a-21st-century-copyright-office-the-conservative-case-for-reform Prompt 2. Discuss the following terms and give an example of each:
I’ll give a fun example that my wife worked with last spring. Her drama class put on the Wizard of Oz. The company that holds the rights to the play are very specific about all of the details. In fact, they are almost militantly insistent about them. Now, my wife teaches middle school and it is likely the company would not hear about it if she didn’t say anything and just infringed on their copyright. But she didn’t do that. I helped her with the programs. The attributions were VERY specific. Things like font sizes, types, and locations were specified. Everybody who did anything with the book or play got credit on the front cover. In the program, her kids wrote short bios about themselves. These are fun. If one of them had copied someone else’s instead of writing their own, that would be plagiarism. Changing up some of the details through transformation really doesn’t do much to help the problem. It was still not their own work. References Bailey, J. (2013, October 7). The difference between copyright infringement and plagiarism. Retrieved from https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2013/10/07/difference-copyright-infringement-plagiarism/
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