Since my GAME plan has helped me to keep in alignment with the NETS-T standards, I feel confident that my students could follow suit by incorporating their own GAME plan utilizing the NETS-S standards. One of the goals of my GAME plan was to promote and model digital citizenship and responsibility. This particular goal is extremely important to me as an educator because of the potential dangers involved with Internet use by teens. Technology can be a remarkable tool for learning when used correctly and carefully, but in the wrong hands, technology can become a weapon of destruction. Unfortunately, many teens utilize the Internet to bully other teens. It has gotten so popular that Internet bullying has been coined cyber bullying and it is running rampant among the teenage population. Cyber bullying has taken on a life of its own, and does not seem to be getting better any time soon. As an educator and as a mother, I want to do whatever I can to stop cyber bullying. I want to instill in my students an ethical understanding so they too will make a concerted effort to put a stop to any unsafe practices.
I would also model for my students how to cite correctly when utilizing information from various sources. The librarian has already put together a PowerPoint presentation on how to do this, but I need to keep modeling for them. I have actually brought in my own papers to show them how I have given credit where credit is due.
With this in mind, I would like to implement #5: Digital Citizenship (International Society for Technology in Education, 2011) because if my students cannot display digital citizenship, then they do not need to be on the Internet. I would not want to have my students partake in any online activities if they could not be responsible teens and use the Internet wisely. I would like to show my students videos related to cyber safety and then have them create a digital story on cyber safety. In their story they would need to explain why it is important to practice Internet safety.
References:
International Society for Technology in Education. (2011). NETS for students 2007. Retrieved from http://www.iste.org/standards/nets-for-students/nets-students
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