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Digital Safety

We are all aware that technology is significantly advancing. As an educator, we need to take advantage of the use of technology tools that are accessible and incorporate it into our lesson plans. Unfortunately, not everything or everyone on the Internet can be trusted. According to commonsensemedia.org, learning to protect personal information is crucial to the safety and security of the digital devices kids use. It is extremely important that students as well as their parents are well educated on digital safety.

The digital safety assignment was very informative and enlightening for me. To be completely honest, I did not know many things about digital safety, until the assignment. I was unaware of the terms, such “pharming and phishing.” I now fully understand how copyright infringement works thanks to this assignment. As an aspiring teacher, I will be using and sharing a lot of information, and now I know how to share the right way so I do not violate any copyright laws. It is very helpful information to guide you in your teaching career. I believe that each of the five topics that were assigned all connects with each other. They all deal with digital safety, and how to be safe when you are online.

When I begin teaching, I will inform my students about digital safety, considering that mostly everything deals with technology now. It would be really useful. I would first start off with cyber bullying. They should know that cyber bullying is not and never will be “ok”. I will try to encourage them to act out a few scenarios about what they think cyber bullying is, that way they would have a better understanding of it.  

In our group assignment, we all had our individual things that we needed to get done. Although getting it the right information was no problem, but meeting together and collaborating everything was a bit difficult. We all have different schedules, and every time would we try to meet; it would already be late at night. It was a bit stressful, but with the help with Wiggio, we were able to get things done. We used Wiggio as our online communication with one another. We were able to share files and so much more. We were able to talk to one another, whenever we had time. It was incredibly handy. It would have been so difficult, if we did not use this online tool.

Knorr, C. (n.d.). Help Your Kids Stay Safe and Secure in a 24/7 Digital World | Common Sense Media. Reviews and Ratings for Family Movies, TV Shows, Websites, Video Games, Books and Music. Retrieved April 30, 2013, from http://www.commonsensemedia.org/advice-for-parents/help-your-kids-stay-safe-and-secure-247-digital-world

Wiggio - Makes it easy to work in groups.. (n.d.). Wiggio - Makes it easy to work in groups.. Retrieved April 30, 2013, from http://wiggio.com