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4.7 Coaches model digital citizenship and support educators and students in recognizing the responsibilities and opportunities inherent in living in a digital world.
a) Inspire and encourage educators and students to use technology for civic engagement and to address challenges to improve their communities.
b) Partner with educators, leaders, students, and families to foster a culture of respectful online interactions and a healthy balance in their use of technology.
c) Support educators and students to critically examine the sources of online media and identify underlying assumptions.
d) Empower educators, leaders, and students to make informed decisions to protect their personal data and curate the digital profile they intend to reflect.
ARTIFACTS
Patriot HS Website & Social Media
ISTE 4.7.a, b
One of the most exciting parts of my job that allows a little creative freedom is being the website editor and social media manager for Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. One of PWCS's Commitments is Family and Community Engagement. I have worked to revamp the public website from a place that was fairly disorganized, difficult to search, and had multiple styles of formats to what it is today. The website can be edited by a small amount of other employees and I have worked collaboratively to organize and style the pages in a similar manner.
There are spaces for community events, important information for outgoing and incoming students and parents, documents to download, and other pieces of information that are beneficial to the community members and stakeholders.
Social Media posts have been reserved to celebrate and highlight our student accomplishments. This has been an exciting and creatively challenging process as I am oftentimes just sent a single sentence about a student accomplishment. I then have to use tools such as Canva or Adobe Express to create an attractive image worth publishing.
Social Media Awareness Week
ISTE 4.7.b, c, d
Every year, Patriot hosts Social Media Awareness week. Each day of the week focuses on different aspects of how social media affects young minds and offers solutions and alternatives to the addication caused by social media. This year, we focused on moderating time on social media, implications of the negative use of social media, and interacting in real time instead of through digital media. Students signed a pledge to be more aware of their social media usage. I collected these pledges and posted them on the wall outside my office for students to see as they move between the two Commons areas during lunch.
I also set up a Social Media Awareness page on the public website that offered parents resources to offset the potential harm social media can cause. Here, you'll see an offer from PWCS to pay for Bark Jr., setting up and adjusting parental controls on Tik Tok and Instagram, using Apple's Family Sharing function, and suggested viewing for additional education on the subject.
Password protection
ISTE 4.7.b, c, d
Students entered their Office365 passwords into this secure website to see how secure their passwords are and how quickly a computer could crack the password. Some students were very surprised at how quickly their passwords were guessed while others were delighted to see that their passwords were complex enough that a computer wouldn't crack it for a few thousand or more years.
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STUDENT INTERVIEW
ISTE 4.7.a, b
Click the image to read an interview I had with a student for Journalism class. Our topic centered around Social Media and their policies. You will see my viewpoints on Social Media, how to safeguard children from online predators, and other ways to maintain a healthy digital lifestyle.
DIGITAL PROMOTION and ADVERTISING
ISTE 4.7.a, b
RiseVision is a web-based digital signage solution that allows for remote controlled, centrally managed displays. I have been using this software as a solution to push announcements, awards, and other recognitions out to the hallway and Commons TVs. There have been some struggles with the learning curve when allowing other teachers to push out their own content, but the goal is the same: Get digital content and media in front of students as they go throughout the building to promote programs, electives, specialty services, and announce important events, celebrate student and teacher achievements, and to also provide a positive aesthetic in the hallways that will promote and foster a positive climate and attitude towards sports and cultural events in the community. Content on these displays is constantly changing as it is a 'living' digital sign, so it is impossible to produce a true artifact.
I find myself to be a great Digital Citizen Advocate. I am essentially the manager of our social media accounts - to include Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. The county has undergone a social media policy change that prevents smaller organizations and clubs to be officially sponsored by Patriot and PWCS. That means that a lot of Teachers, Coaches and Club Sponsors rely on me to put out information and posts on their behalf.
One major thing I’ve done this year to really improve upon the communication with the community is revamping our front facing public website. I am one of four editors at Patriot High School that can re-organize, update, modify, edit, add, or delete pages.
In regards to Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, I really allow those platforms to be left up to accolades, awards, and relatively quick announcements that need to get out to the community quickly. Next year, I am working on branding those social media platforms to improve on the delivery of information. The new TV Specialty Program, the Sports Marketing program and the Digital Visualization teacher will work collaboratively to get out sports accolades, awards, updates to games and scores, and recognizing elite athletes and educators/coaches.
I’ve created a form for teachers to fill out to streamline any sort of social media or news post that needs to go out to the public. This seems to be a very simple way for me to assist all those other extracurricular activities and getting out their information through digital means of technology in a responsible manner.
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