Session 7 UNESCO and input for 5B

The purposes of our Chesapeake Public School’s plan, the UNESCO ICT Competency Standards, and my goals as an educator overlap and complement each other in that all want to ensure that our students have every opportunity to amass appropriate educational opportunities and experiences to build the skills necessary to prepare them for success in school as well as for success in our 21^st century world.  As a librarian, I am in a great position to share information and instruction with students and staff members as well as others in the profession.  I also have unlimited opportunities to plan technology infused lessons for students at K-5 in my building, thus building skills for students while modeling for staff members as I share what we’ve done and how we did it.

Notes for 5b:

exhibit leadership:   

-provide technology in-service opportunities for staff members

-provide technology session at our spring regional conference

-promote opportunities for growth and development through the VEMA website

Participate in shared decision making and community building:

-continue to serve on the Staff Development committee within my school

-continue to participate in learning community discussions and VEMA listserv communications

-continue participation in the VEMA board discussions and meetings

Develop leadership and technology skills in others

-recruit others to share their areas of expertise at conferences

-provide in-service opportunities

-share information gained at conferences with others in my building and in my profession such as at our quarterly librarian meetings for the city

Session 7: Global Connections

In Capstone II, I expect to change learning communities.  Edutopia is a wonderful resource, but upon participating in the three groups I chose this semester, I found that I didn’t receive many or particularly useful responses to my queries due partly to the fact that participation is infrequent and the communities aren’t very large in comparison to some other options.  Between sessions, I will continue to participate in the VEMA listserv discussions and posts that I have been a part of for the past 10 years.  I will review my bookmarks and research other potential groups to find a new one to join for Capstone II.  Classroom 2.0 seems to be an active learning community that other Capstone classmates seemed to have enjoyed and found beneficial.  In addition, I will likely become part of the learning community associated with whichever resource I used for my students’ collaborative partners for Capstone II.

Session 6: Digital Citizenship and Responsibility

Digital citizenship and responsibility encompasses many facets.  It begins with educators as we bridge the gap between our schools’ Acceptable Use Policies and our students’ grasp of internet safety by incorporating internet safety into our instruction.  We also need to ensure that we lead by example as well as by instruction by modeling appropriate digital citizenship and responsibility in our own use of technology and in our instructional lessons.

In addition to teaching our students how to use digital resources safely and responsibly, we need to work to ensure equitable access to these digital tools and opportunities for our students.  Although we cannot change what our students have available in their homes, we can ensure equitable access while at school, even if that means making resources available after hours, and can increase awareness of and promote use of community resources and opportunities that may help bridge whichever digital divide(s) present the biggest challenge(s) for our students.