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 * Week 4 - Online Learning Week

Learning Objectives/Outcomes:

 1. Demonstrate the understanding of how technologies can effectively promote student learning  2. Evaluate and use a variety of current technologies to enhance content instruction and to advance students' technological literacy  5. Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of safe, ethical, legal and moral practices related to digital information and technology  8. Evaluate, adapt and reflect on emerging tools and trends by participating in local and global learning communities and by reviewing current research and professional literature

**Enduring Understanding:** Technology is everywhere. Effective uses of technology help us to learn, communicate, work and play.

 **Essential Question:** How has technology awareness changed from the initial documentary in Growing Up Digital to the current Documentary Digital Nation?

 Digital Citizenship is part of our teacher and student NETS standards. We need to be aware of the many ways our students are using technology in their daily lives as well as trying to incorporate technology into the school day. Watching the PBS documentaries, you will see how youth of today are using technology in positive and some negative ways. The overwhelming question that comes to my mind over and over again, is


 * __"Who is responsible for teaching our youth how to be responsible using technology and when should it start?"__ **

You will be responsible for answering and participating in a google discussion page that is posted here. Please change your color of your font to show each response so we know who is who when answering. Feel free to comment and discuss anything further that jumps out at you about the movies. You may want to read over the questions below first before you watch the documentaries.

1. Watch the two documentaries on PBS Frontline
 * Growing Up Online - 56 minutes
 * Digital Nation - Follow Up - 90 minutes

**Apply & Discover & Assessment** This week you will watch two different yet similar documentaries about growing up in a digital world. You will watch each (take notes along with watching) and answer the questions below in your blog. Please be sure to link each documentary to your blog entry.

1. Compare and Contrast each documentary. What has changed from the first one (Growing Up Online) made in 2008 to the newer one (Digital Nation) filmed in 2010 ? 2. Your thoughts on multitasking. Do you agree? Can you multitask? Do you disagree? 3. Is there an addiction happening in society today with technology or is it just a new way of living? Should we be concerned? 4. Do video games serve a purpose in education or are they a waste of time? 5. Do you believe that digital tools such as google tools can save schools that are struggling? 6. Do parents of today have any idea what their kids are doing online? Whose job is it to teach them the safety and digital responsibility? Parents/Teachers/Community/Government?? 7. Are kids and adults today ruining their digital footprints by sharing too much information online without realizing that it may be detrimental to their future? Should they care? 8.“Stranger Danger” and predator fears are often overblown by the media on shows such as Datelines “To Catch a Predator”. What are the real dangers of technology in this day and age? **//9.//** Share your overall reactions and thoughts about each documentary here. Please relate it to your views as a teacher/parent/coach/etc... **//What did you learn, find//** **//interesting//** //, find disturbing, relate to, did not relate to, etc...from watching either documentary that you would like to share with others? //
 * Questions for Discussion - to be posted to your blog.**


 * Comment on any two blog postings of your choice this week. **

Download Scratch to your laptop/computer and investigate for next week's class please. ||  ||