Assignment 1: Educational Technologies Blog

            Week 7 Assignment 1: Educational Technologies Blog

       The investigation into technologies related to digital citizenship, ethics, and netiquette proved rewarding. Adult learners should be involved in learning everything there is to learn regarding digital citizenship, ethics, and netiquette. Focusing on this trend of thought, I selected two sites:

www.network.etiquette.net/

This is a cyber-word synonymous with internet etiquette and digital manners made available online. The rules of netiquette are net etiquette and internet ethics for effective use of internet sites.

             I selected this site as an introduction to teach adult learners about cyber etiquette. I am assuming this position would be revealing to them and facilitate their online use.

             Two examples of how I would incorporate this technology into my professional practice would be:

·        A power point presentation introducing the concept Netiquette.

·        A Think-Pair-Share activity in which the learners would choose slide/slides and assign them to annotate the content from the slides and identify unknown vocabulary. Next, they would write a critique or reaction of what was learned and how they will apply it to their future cyber activity.

Bonk (2009) mentioned: “The field of distance learning has significantly evolved during the past two decades. It has always been concerned with learning access and providing any potential learner with some type of learning opportunity”.

www.ikeepsafe.org/educators/more/c-3/matrix/cyber-ethics/

       

       Cyber-ethics is the discipline of using appropriate and ethical behaviors and acknowledging moral duties and obligations pertaining to online environments and digital media.

        The selection of this site was to inform adult learners regarding their behavior online. This is something that is taken for granted due to the anonymity of the internet. A user can hide his/her identity and create havoc as they deem appropriate. Users of the internet must learn there are acceptable and unacceptable behaviors everyone must demonstrate while online.

Two examples of implementing this technology in my professional practice are:

·        Adult learners would create a KWL diagram. After reading data about this site, they would complete the diagram. Volunteers would share their findings on Whiteboards for a thorough class discussion.

·        The adult learners would be assigned to investigate technologies relating to the topics of netiquette, digital citizenship and ethics. They would create a forum/debate to express their findings, relate their findings to their personal lives. This forum/debate would provide insights into learning acceptable online behaviors.

“(T) here is the quest for the magic medium, the ultimate technology that will revolutionize education. But there is no magic medium and never will be. Each technology has its strengths. The task is to use them to create a world where education of quality is abundantly available:. (Sir John Daniel, October 24, 2007).

  To ensure better quality educational pursuits using technology as the foundation, there are guidelines, procedures, behaviors and principles that must be adhered to. Without these introduced and made a component of curriculum design processes, technology will not reach the maximum impact as it was designed to possess.

 References

Bonk, C. J. (2009). The world is open: How web technology                                  is revolutionizing education. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Sir John Daniel, “Technology and the Media Have Transformed All Aspects of Human Life-Except Education, Economist.Com. (Oct. 24, 2007), www.economist.com/debate/index.cfm?action=article & debate__ id= 1& story__ id9968827 (accessed Apr. 18, 2008).