Lindsay Hacker's Blog – February 2012 Archive (3)

Open Source Course: Digital Citizenship for Everyone: Resources for Students, Teachers and Families

Personal reflection:

This course advertised itself as a course designed to teach the participants how to create digitally responsible users of the internet. It also supplied resources for teachers and parents for lesson on digital citizenship. Overall, they shared resources that are available through their organization, but you need to purchase those resources if…

After researching various types of virtual reality, I do not think that virtual worlds give students a better learning experience than real world experiences. Originally, I believed that virtual reality worlds offered unique experiences for students to experience things they would not otherwise have access to.  Pictures of students taking a virtual tour through the Louvre, participating in historic events, and visiting fictional cities were floating around in my head as I thought of the…

Before starting this week’s assignments, I looked at the heading and read “Social Networking and Digital Citizenship” and I felt like I already knew a lot about these two specific topics. However, once I started to do some reading on the topics, I realized that there was actually quite a bit about both that I never really considered. For starters, I consider myself to be pretty proficient in the world of social media. I am an active member of many different types of social media personally,…