Digital citizenship- I belong here too

I am a citizen of Malaysia. I also own a citizenship of the digital world. Well, you are too! A user of ICT should have proper ethics, practice safe participation in the digital world and be responsible of their actions. We should never be ignorant of our acts just because it is in an online world.

I took the quiz about bullying and I confidently answered them all. I got 3 answers correct out of the 4 questions. Although cyber bullying amongst secondary school students are not at a dangerous rate, it can be discreetly threatening.

I also agree with this article that a bully victim should not blame themselves for becoming one. It takes support from family and friends to not feel bad about becoming a bully victim.

This Cyber Smart Quiz is super cool! The quiz is intentionally for primary level students but I myself found it attractive too! I already shared it with my friends and families so they can have an idea how to teach their young ones about cyber safety.
The quiz gives a good idea on what to teach about cyber safety and enables people to learn on what is safe, what is not, what is right and what is wrong.

The two quizzes that I took gave me an insight of the relation of bullying in a digital world. I find it really important for all ICT users to know about the proper ethics. The quiz gave me a perspective that young people and us adults should practice healthy ethics online.

In my beloved country, there are just plenty of cases and people exposing stories of their children becoming victims of online grooming. Due to that and many other reasons, being cyber smart is a must for everyone!

I believe being aware of healthy ways to operate ICT can help a person develop understanding about the pros and cons of a digital world. We adults may not be able to stop young people's curiosity but the understanding of a digital world can work as a reminder to them in case things happen.

When young people understands the good way to operate ICT, it may be easier to discuss with them or remind them about becoming a digital citizen.
I will share with my students, friends and families that becoming a digital citizen is altogether about having good ethics, being responsible
of
our acts and monitor our safety and to grant safety to other digital citizens.

Plan B

1.    List all of those digital technologies;

2.    Identify all of the ways in which they might break; and,

3.    Identify all of the methods you can employ to prevent, avoid and recover from problems with those digital technologies.

Digital technologies	Ways it might break	How to prevent/ avoid/ recover the problem
Smart phone(camera app)	Camera app can’t be open	Use digital camera
Digital tablet	Low battery	Ensure the battery is full before using it
Printer	Not connected to the laptop that children are working on	Use pen drive transfer folders from laptop to the computer connected to a printer
Video	It may not play although connected to the internet	Download the video first or load it first before the lesson
School’s wireless internet connection	Not connected to the device used	Bring my own portable modem and connect using a cable

Reading this makes me realize that it does make sense to think ahead of Plan B. I do realize that technology may break down and the funny thing is at times that we are in need is the time that it breaks down.

I do not think I have ever planned for Plan B. Usually my Plan B appears spontaneously. I don't think ahead of "what if" the digital tool breaks down. A lesson with students should be delivered as smooth as possible. Working with students, there are other challenges that may not make a lesson go as smooth as how us teachers want it to be. However, there are ways to minimize these risks. For instance with digital technologies, teachers can assume or predict what could break down during a lesson. Hence, planning for Plan B is a great idea! It can help teachers remain calm and still be prepared when a break down happens.

As Ms. Milne mentions in her blog post, seeking help from other people such as the ICT department is also one of the way for Plan B. This clearly shows that thinking ahead of the possible break downs can cut off the amount of time wasted during a lesson. Mr. Marcinek mentioned that the Plan B should also engage students in active learning.

Next on, I will be thinking of Plan B ahead of my lessons. Its a better way for me to be confident when conducting lessons with the students.

References:

Marcinek, A. (2014). Classroom Management in the Tech-Equipped Classrom. Retrieved October 22, 2016, from http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.edutopia.org/blog/classroom-management-tech-equipped-classroom-andrew-marcinek


Milne, J. (2016, September 16). Start working out your Plan Bs. Retrieved from https://jaymedc3100.wordpress.com/2016/09/26/start-working-out-your-plan-bs/

Becoming a positive person

People are curious on how can a person think and act positively?

I figured this out for myself.

Becoming a positive person is not magic. I don't just snap my finger and turn myself into a positive person.

Honestly, it takes a conscious mind to think and act positively. With practice to be conscious when our mind is in a negative state, we will (god willing) subconsciously be conscious to switch our mind towards positivity.

Positive mind leads to positive actions.

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Planning for my PE

Reading about Part B for assignment 3, the task is quite interesting for me especially the second part of it. The second part of part B wants me to write my approaches that I will be using to plan ICT integration for my lesson plans.

I am used to creating lesson plans as I work while I am studying. However I am not sure if I used any particular theory or system to do it. Instead, I just fill in as the template flows. In short, I did not have a strategy when creating a lesson plan.

After learning a few courses I do realize that my way of planning a lesson does link to a theory or a process. It may not entirely follow a particular process but bits of the steps are in common. I think by using a particular valid process for planning will enhance my plan to be more compact for the student's learning.

Conctructivism learning theory helps teachers to further student's learning as students will develop new concepts prior to their learning. Then students will use their learning and apply it to new situations. This steps also is similar to the Bloom's Taxonomy.

Agreeing with Pamelagovender25, lesson plan makes me feel confident when executing a lesson. I would feel that the execution of the lesson is effective for the teacher and hopefully for the students as well. I shall now do lesson planning using a valid theory or process in mind.


Regards,
Sarah

Reflecting my professional experience

I am participating in this forum sharing about my previous professional experience and the one I will be facing next week.

The top 2 challenges/ problems/ mistakes  that I have faced prior to professional experience are:

 

1.  Not having enough ICT tools for all students

2. I usually do mistakes when linking theories to my write up

 

The top 2 fears I have about my EDC3100 professional experience are:

 

1. Keeping up with my daily reflections

2. Doing my lesson plans wrongly

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Weather

I did this activity. This activity opened up my perspective on how a common ICT can make us learn from elsewhere that are thousand of miles away from our classroom. Below is the photo I took in Selangor, Malaysia and I sent it to flickr.

Then I got my relative to send a photo of the weather of where she was and she sent me this:

This was a shot she had taken in Svalbard. Her captions as below:

"This was taken on our morning hike at 7.30am in the bay of Reliktbukta in Svalbard on 8-Sep-2016. The location is 80° North, a few hundred kilometres from the North Pole. It was a cold landing with temperature below 0°C. The air was fresh and crisp, the day-old snow making crunchy sound underfoot, so clean you can scoop it and let it melt in the mouth to quench our thirst as we walked up the slope and back, a distance of 6km. There was a low fog hanging over the horizon, dark over the water and white over land reflecting the colours below."

I mentioned earlier that we can learn beyond our physical classroom. For instance the topic is Weather. All photos submitted to that particular email will be organized and can be viewed at  flickr's technology in learning page. You should be able to see the pictures above and many more submitted by other students, there.

Regards,
Sarah

My learning objectives

I am now doing my unit plan. Below are my learning objectives:

Constructing knowledge objectives:

Earth and space sciences

• Observable changes occur in the sky and landscape (ACSSU019)

Transforming knowledge objectives:

Processing and analysing data and information

•       Use a range of methods to sort information, including drawings and provided tables and through discussion, compare observations with predictions (ACSIS027) 
• ·         Compare observations with those of others(ACSIS213)

My learning area is Year 1 Science and I am using the Australian Curriculum for my unit plan. 

Below are the criterias from Year 1 Standard Elaborations (SEs) for my chosen content descriptions:

Understanding dimension/ Science understanding

Understanding dimension/ Science as human endevaour

Skills dimension/ Questioning and predicting

Skills dimension/ Planning and conducting & Processing and analysing data and information

Skills dimension/  Evaluating and communicating

Now I need to struck out things that are not connected to my learning content descriptions. Below are the revised ones:

Understanding dimension/ Science understanding

Understanding dimension/ Science as human endeavor

Skills dimension/ Planning and conducting & Processing and analyzing data and information

Skills dimension/  Evaluating and communicating

After going through this and the following page, I revised my criterion again to:

Understanding dimension/ Science as human endeavor

Skills dimension/ Planning and conducting & Processing and analyzing data and information

Skills dimension/  Evaluating and communicating