Final Reflection on Digital Citizenship

This course covered more content than any other course that I’ve taken in this program. I learned the most about copyright and plagiarism. After undergraduate education courses, much is not said in education about these laws and practices. Unfortunately, I got my teaching certification through alternative certification and didn’t take any education undergraduate courses, so this course was eye opening in that respect. I plan on sharing this information about copyrights and creative commons with the new teachers in my school that might not have the education undergraduate background like myself. I’m proud of the work that I did with my digital presentation for the final week, since the first digital presentation did not go well with Powtoons as the platform. My favorite aspect of the course was the cyber-bullying week since I could relate to that the most and as a mother, it made me reflect on how I’m teaching my child the digital citizenship skills that I expect of my students. One of the activities that I would change about the course would be how the web conference was formatted. While I enjoyed writing the reflection over the web conference, I believe that it’s important for mics of the students to be muted and all questions to be answered in the chat box or at the end of the lecture. Often I was confused on if I should write my reflections on “how long a paragraph should be” to if “Cardi-B was a digital genius” or not. This is just another lesson on digital communication and what type of communication is appropriate in the setting. I also wish that the course had been split up into two different courses since the material was dense and very important to all educators.