Be a digital citizen

A digital citizen is a person than can be an internet user, it is to be responsible and able to use social networking sites and web or other internet applications. Person should had skills to effectively use digital technologies to participate in society. Also, it is essential to know the rules that should follow it to be safe in the field, as an internet user, we should protect our privacy, respect other and use our mind, so using the think rule.

 

So as teacher of student, to be a good digital citizen should follow some rules:

• Keep privacy
• Be yourelf
• Respect other(avoid bullying)
• Always be nice

It is important to teach students to be a good digital citizen by helping them learn to engage within a digital environment with responsibility and confidence to develop as leaders who will leave meaningful impacts in the lives of others,and provide students with the necessary skills and knowledge to succeed in this huge world.

Tools for online assessment

 There are different tools that can be used in online assessment, such as :

  Google forms, which helpful for doing exam, or quizzes based on their many available features. 

Poll everywhere ,teachers can create questions like multiple choice options and share it with students to answer it.We can ask questions during  lessons, see live data, and reports

Mentimeter is one of tools used for assessment which can used to do revision,  and to ask questions . It lets us add polls, word clouds, Q&As, and more to presentations and create an interactive experience for students, who can vote on/respond to questions and engage with the presentation in real time.  

Kahoot, which is a game - based assessment tool, where teahers can create learning games for students.

Jamboard , is a cloud-based, whiteboard application that can be used for collaboration.

Padlet,it allows students and teacher to create online board to share and collaborate and we can share just about any type of information–text, links, upload files, photos, videos, just about any kind of response.

Integration technology into teaching

 In my opinion, integration technology into teaching has a main role in

facilitate teaching process, it makes it easy. Also, it increase student's

engagement in classroom which then emphases the outcomes of

students. Technology encourages active participation by using different

tools, presentations, educational games….

In addition, technology has role in enhance peer collaboration, when students work in group using some applications or tablets ,students help each other by assisst technology skills for less skilled students. 

 Furthermore, it helps teachers improve their lesson plans,and it improves the students performance what always teachers want to do .

What is EDUC561 class ?

 EDUC 561, is a course in Teaching Diploma where we learn how we can integrate technology strategies in education and how we use it in learning process in order to enhance it and facilitate the delivery of information to students. It is a helpful class that prepare future teacher to be more knowledgeable in technology and know more about useful applications in the educational field.

In my opinion, i found it very important and helps me in my teaching domain and how i can use some new tools and benefit from it in preparing assessment and planing for lessons .