Chapter 7: When using the Internet with children, there are privacy and acceptable use issues. Describe the issues you are most concerned with and how you plan to address them when you become a teacher. It is interesting that I am answering this question this week because there was actually an incident in my school this past school year. Our district uses Google Suites and all students have access to all of the Google Applications that come along with it. This of course includes Google Hangout, which is a chat room type function of Gmail. Students are able to chat with each other, their teachers, or anyone else that Gmail gives them access to chat with. During the regular school year, there was a problem with students cheating on assignments or chatting during lessons through Google Hangout. They also were sending inappropriate links and messages. Unfortunately, when the technology department tried to disable it, it causes a lot of other vital applications to malfunction, so it had to be re-enabled. The issues that I am most concerned with other than cheating or disruption of class time have to do with student safety. I do my best to monitor student internet activity in my classroom and make sure that they are not navigating to dangerous or inappropriate sites. It is not always easy, but I learned quickly that if I set a tone and procedure for the class, students will follow it 90% of the time. With that being said, however, students test the boundaries all the time. In my classroom and at the school I teach at, using technology is a privilege. When students compromise that privilege with inappropriate behavior, they lose their privilege to use the technology. If I feel as of a student is misusing their privilege, I have no problem immediately referring them to the school administrator and calling their parent. My students know that I have no problem calling home, and they rarely allow that to happen by misbehaving or misusing their privileges. My Learning Experiences This week our group worked together to create 3 group projects. We also all individually completed a podcast project that related back to the group projects. On Monday, we had another group Zoom meeting to devise our strategy for the week. We decided to use a divide and conquer approach, and split the 3 projects amongst ourselves. Eli worked on Project 2 and created the lesson plan that will serve as our base line for all of the remaining projects this semester. The lesson that we chose is a 6th grade English lesson on MLA Format. Kimberly and Carletta worked together to create a survey to assess students' technology use for Project 3. Michaelah and I split the work on Project 4. On project 4, Michaelah and I created instructional materials to go along with Eli's lesson plan from Project 2. I created a Google Doc that is meant to serve as a reference guide on MLA format for students as they complete their own essays. Michaelah created a Google Slides presentation that demonstrates how to set up MLA format in Google Docs, complete with both text and images. As a group we decided to have our drafts completed by Wednesday evening so that we could spend Thursday and Friday providing comments and suggestions to each other and making edits. By Friday evening we had everything completed and ready to submit. Overall, our group once again worked very well together. There were a few moments of confusion, but we all asked questions and clarified when it was needed. Project 5 was an individual assignment that each of us had to complete on our own. For my podcast, I chose to create an instructional material meant for students to listen to prior to coming to the lesson. In this podcast, I go over the instructional Google Slides presentation from project 4. At the end of the podcast, I asked students to come to class prepared to ask questions and complete practice assignments. I created the podcast using Vocaroo.com. I found this website very easy to use! ![]()
Project 3: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1hI2zYT2ILu-SLsKLT581nqwozxglj9hyD964BmsEbPE/viewform?edit_requested=true Project 4- Google Doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QzYPdjlXgkaMifITnjqi8z6mEh2ife2pFYVuBTjggTI/edit?usp=sharing Project 4- Google Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1vYTmoKl-bLohpmveRHwJ0F-UoeBQUKuecAihEFBC8bU/edit?usp=sharing ![]()
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Eli Morgan
6/27/2021 06:26:49 am
Hi Sarah, great work this week, both in your chapter response and reflection of our group projects! I definitely understand monitoring students via their electronic devices, and that challenge can be even harder when the student is at home. To anyone with this issue, I would suggest using the website Blocksi! It is free with your school's Google Account and presents a live stream of each of your student's screens in real-time, as well as all their tabs that they have open in a browser. Again, great job this week!
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Michaelah Martin
6/27/2021 10:54:12 am
Hi Sarah,
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Kimberly Jefferson
6/27/2021 10:09:34 pm
Hi Sarah,
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Carletta S Hurt
6/30/2021 03:20:23 am
HI, Sarah!
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