Answer: How has the Participate module prepared you to meet each standard listed?   Standard C: The online teacher plans, designs, and incorporates strategies to encourage active learning, application, interaction, participation, and collaboration in the online environment. Standard E: The online teacher models, guides, and encourages legal, ethical, and safe behavior related to technology use. Standard J: The online teacher interacts in a professional, effective manner with colleagues, parents, and other members of the community to support students’ success. The Digital Literacy section in the Participate module has helped prepare me to meet Standard C on active and collaborative learning by teaching me how to evaluate and curate digital resources that promote inquiry and active learning/application. It was in this same lesson that I first learned about social bookmarking as a means of curating and sharing content. As stated in my post from this lesson , I see social bookm...

Answer: How did you modify your technology habits? What is the most proactive means of ensuring the most balanced blend of technology and well-being? What can students and teachers do to make sure they get the most from technology while simultaneously safeguarding good health? Below you will find the Google Calendar that I created for improving my digital health. Starting on Monday September 4th, I implemented a few changes in my schedule, some of which were single instances and others have been recurring items. Single Instances: 09/05 - Adjusted my monitor height and desk chair position. 09/06 - Scheduled a walk around campus on my planning period. 09/08 - Planned dinner with loved ones. 09/09 - Participated in a 5k. Recurring Instances: 2:15 daily reminder - I get a calendar notification every day at the beginning of my planning period to remind me to sit up straight as I work. 5:00-6:00 daily unplug - At this time every day I try to put away my phone and spend time with ...

Create: Develop a digital resource which addresses the following questions. a. What is the most important step we can take in terms of ensuring our digital safety? b. What strategies can we take to help our students consistently keep digital safety in the forefront of their minds? Answer: How might your artifact be implemented in a learning environment? The most important step we can take to ensure digital safety for ourselves and for our students is to recognize that each of us leaves a digital footprint every time we go online. Where we go and what we do online determines the types of threats and the degree of risk to which we subject ourselves and other members of our DLC. We must help students understand the types and the nature of the risks that they face, as well as the gravity of the fact that their "virtual" life leaves a lasting impression on their "real" life and the lives of others. So our most important step for ensuring digital safety and our m...

Answer: 1. How can a DLC ensure that citizens within the community have access to an environment where an AUP protects members as well as the community itself, where individuals uphold laws, and a cooperative/collective venture provides robust, safe, and ethical resources and opportunities for learning? As members of a DLC, students and teachers have the world at their fingertips. This comes with both immense potential as well as the threat of danger. These potential rewards and risks are not inherent to the internet and technology themselves; the internet and technology are neither "good" nor "evil." Instead, the good and the bad, the risks and the rewards depend on the behaviors of the users, their decision of how to interact with others and what sort of content to share. While DLC leaders cannot necessarily control the content that is already present, we should focus on what we can control (or at least influence ): learner behaviors. Enter the AUP. Accept...