Digiteen: Teaching Digital Citizenship - teens teaching ten year olds
Today was the fourth “class” in our in Australia about the sharks and were amazed at how the Internet connects.
Then, we did a gcast podcast that I recorded and posted live on the Internet (I took it back down afterwards.) They were amazed.
Our point: the cell phone IS the Internet.
The teacher was amazed but we were too when two students confessed to sending 500 text messages a day on the first day. The students ALL decided together that the best thing to do is to charge the phone in the kitchen away from the bedroom or to put it in a drawer in the kitchen.
It was fascinating to see the students recognize what was wrong and propose what should happen to fix it.
It is about taking time to pull students back and reflect upon what they are doing in order to decide if that is what they want. Sometimes talking in third person helps kids decide what they want to do with their first person.
Overall, it has been one of the best things we’ve done this year. We are going to do more of it next year, that is for sure. The teachers love it and I do too!
My students rock!
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