DESTINATION POSTCARD

I have been working for a global education company based in Southeast Asia for the past 4 years. My goal as a tech leader is to bring tech tools to developing countries where access to technology can sometimes be difficult. These are some of the tech tools that I like using and I think it will revolutionize language learning in international classrooms.

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DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP WEBNIAR

I had the chance to attend the Digital Citizenship seminar this week and ask a question during the webinar to Dr. Marty Park. My question was: How can we bring Digital citizenship to developing countries and international classrooms where technology isn't always present? Dr. Park's response was the following: Whatever technologies we have access to, there are ways to learn the key concepts and competencies of Digital Citizenship. The core of Digital Citizenship is how to be a responsible, respectful and empowered person. He said that our real life and online life were merging at a rapid pace and we're trying to figure out how to do that really well. He insisted on sharing the common definition of what it means to be a Digital Citizen with people as well as hack the definition of Digital citizenship and making it our own. He said ''Put a definition that would bring leaders together and share the systems around''. He also said that we ...

DIGITAL PORTFOLIO PICTH _ BRINGING DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP TO DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

DIGITAL PORTFOLIO PICTH _ BRINGING DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP TO DEVELOPING COUNTRIES This Picture makes me think of the Digital Citizenship Webinar by Dr. Marty Park. Based on the readings and the Webinar on Digital Citizenship by Dr. Marty Park, these are the steps that we, educators have to take in order to help shape today's students into the digital citizens our world needs. Level 1: Identify the leaders that we work within our educational institutions ( library leaders, teachers, schools tech leaders, etc.. Level 2 : Exposure of plans. Encourage teachers to use more technology into the classrooms, (Ie: videos and creating online lesson plans) Level 3: Check that the students have the skills. ( basic level of understanding or application of skills.) Level 4: Work on a Digital citizenship plan to ensure the students fluency and competency. Encourage the student to demonstrate that by doing and living as a digital citizen through the creation of materials. ...

DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP Based on the readings and the Webinar on Digital Citizenship by Dr. Marty Park, these are the steps that we, educators have to take in order to help shape today's students into the digital citizens our world needs. Level 1: Identify the leaders that we work within our educational institutions ( library leaders, teachers, schools tech leaders, etc.. Level 2 : Exposure of plans. Encourage teachers to use more technology into the classrooms, (Ie: videos and creating online lesson plans) Level 3: Check that the students have the skills. ( basic level of understanding or application of skills.) Level 4: Work on a Digital citizenship plan to ensure the students fluency and competency. Encourage the student to demonstrate that by doing and living as a digital citizen through the creation of materials. I had the chance to ask a question during the webinar to Dr. Marty Park. My question was: How can we bring Digital citizenship to deve...

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