Digital Citizenship

I found this presentation very important to be given to future teachers. It was important to give to future teachers because we can learn what is right and what is wrong from being put out on the internet as a teacher. For an example in my high school I formed many close bonds with many teachers and would always be like friend me on facebook, snapchat, and instagram and they would always be like I can’t and that it's against the rules as a teacher of a student to follow a student on their social media. After learning more about digital citizenship, I see why it is not right to follow a student on social media. A teacher's life and job can be ruined in a second through social media. Like described in the powerpoint a teacher lost her job because of a picture that went viral of her on facebook that she never thought would have caused a problem.

Another thing I learned from the powerpoint is how plagiarism has to be stressed endlessly throughout school. Many children need to be taught at a young age how severe plagiarism actually is. Stealing another person's work and using for yourself is not ok. Throughout my school years I was always taught to cite my work. In high school, I did a senior project in which I had to do a symposium on a 1,000 page book I had to read and then do a history research project which requires lots of citing and using footnotes. I think from doing this project I was taught well how important it is to cite one's work. Also it made my grow as an individual because it made me dig deeper into the information and how I can change it to be more of my work than the authors.