Apr 17 2010
K12 Online Conference – Thing 13
Digiteens: Digital Citizenship by Digital Teenagers
I selected the online conference Digiteens and Digital Citizenship because we are working on a similar project with our 6th grade students in their Technology class. The students are creating a Public Service Announcement on social networking, cell phones and text ting, or email and blogging. This has been an eye opener for us as teachers. The students have shared all kinds of issues they have been facing.
This conference video validated the method in which we are doing this project. The students completed their own research. We guided them where to go, and helped them with the research, but then they are going to teach their peers on the important issues they found on their topics. This was the main point of the conference was to have the student learn and create on the own. Their learning will be more impactful. The students in the video collaborated with students around the world with their project.
Certainly, this form of professional development is more cost effective and convenient. I will go back to this site as time permits and see what else the conference has to offer. I have also bookmarked the site links for the video conference I viewed. I am interested in continuing this Digiteens type project again with the students next year. After we finish our projects this month, I will come back and see how our students final project compare, and make adjustments for next year.
